NUNO NOGUEIRA
Is currently a PhD researcher in Fashion Design at the Lisbon School of Architecture. He was the recipient of a research scholarship of Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design (CIAUD), from 2016 to 2018.
He completed his BA and Masters studies in Fashion Design at Lisbon School of Architecture, in 2008 and 2015 respectively, and was given a Merit Award for the higher classification in a Master’s dissertation for the 2014/2015 academic year.
He is a cofounder and member of the research group PATTERN-OLOGY, established in 2017.
His research interests lie in Pattern Design as an embodied practice that reflects both a physical presence in the world – because it is the body that lays onto paper the geometrical foundations of a body – and an embedded social manifestation – because the pattern-maker is susceptible to the ideal body shape of its time.
Between 2011 and 2014, he was a member and co-founder of 31 d’Atalaia, an artistic association focused on textiles. Besides his academic work, he regularly works as a freelancer in costume design.
view on patterns
I came into Fashion Design after a period of studying Dance. This change in career choice did not go without some inner conflict – because fashion is still often regarded as a superfluous practice. Nonetheless it was within its territory that I fully understood what really thrills me: the body and its multitude of representations, which fashion embodies so brilliantly.
Wearing clothes, as wide as the meaning of ‘clothes’ may be, is an undeniable condition of the being human and, therefore, it involves a deeper significance that goes beyond the mere display of external visual symbols expressing individuality and belonging. In my view garments, because they’re inevitably in direct contact with our skin, help to convey important notions of embodiment, of being in the world. Thus, my interest in Pattern Design as a system that regulates the structures and shapes of fabric, with which the imagined garments become materialized, lies in the fact that Pattern Design allows to rethink, reconstruct and reposition the multi-dimensional tangible body.