MICHELE SANTOS
Is fashion designer, graduated from UTL's Faculty of Architecture. She holds a Masters in Fashion Styling from Istituto Marangoni in Italy and a PhD in Ergonomics from UTL's Faculty of Human Kinetics. She has collaborated as a designer, stylist and consultant for several companies. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, where she teaches in the Design and Fashion courses. She is an effective member of the Center for Research in Architecture, Urbanism and Design (CIAUD) of the Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, in the area of design /fashion and ergonomics.
view on patterns and pattern design
My relation with Pattern design started as a fashion designer, as I realized the fantastic possibility to transform design ideas in a 3D garment, where ideas, fabric, space and body come together in harmony. Nowadays, I am more concerned about the creation of harmony between dress and mobile body in a specific environment and the freedom that clothes should provide us in order to perform better, whatever the context or task is.