This year marks the tenth anniversary of Portuguese-born, Paris-based designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista's eponymous line.This year marks the tenth anniversary of Portuguese-born, Paris-based designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista's eponymous line. And to celebrate, Lisbon's Design and Fashion Museum (MuDe) has asked him to put on a retrospective, which opens tonight and runs through February 16.

Together with famed set designer Alex de Betak, Baptista—who created quite a buzz three years ago when he replaced Christophe Lemaire as the creative director of Lacoste—has put together a high-concept show that he hopes will tell the story behind his clothes. In addition to a comprehensive selection of the designer's clean, sometimes severe, sometimes light-as-air looks from the past decade, Baptista and Betak have built an electronic brain of sorts that showcases his inspiration images, photographs, and sketches on a cluster of screens.

"I think it's really interesting to show people what they never see," offered Baptista, who did stints at Max Mara and Cerruti before launching his own line in 2003. "I thought it was interesting to show them where it comes from, and how it gets there." Here, Baptista talks to Cbamd.com about the exhibition, his anniversary, and how he's watched fashion change—for better and for worse.
POST: 2024-11-26