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A British clothing brand with a sense of design

29/06/2023

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https://www.marquesalmeida.com/

Marques' Almeida is a clothing brand founded in 2009 by Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida.

From Portugal, Marta and Paulo met at CITEX fashion School in Portugal, and after graduating, they moved to London to work together at Vivienne Weatwood,VW's Anglomania and Preen brands. While studying for a Master's degree in fashion at Central Saint Martins, they started working together and established their own label, Marques' Almeida, in London.

The original concept for Marques' Almeida was taken from the simple aesthetic of Helmut Lang, with a touch of "no prototype clothing". In addition to maintaining a clean and light style, Marques' Almeida's work has more of a wild and aggressive attitude. The most distinctive feature of Marques' Almeida is the treatment of denim, which avoids all the conventional methods, techniques and designs of handling denim, and has a large number of hand-made parts. They like to take apart the edges of denim, hand-fraying the edges to an extremely worn look, and stitching them together with irregular cuts. Throughout the process, the two also gradually developed some manual skills, which can better show the decadence of the clothing.