Here, sensuality is interpreted with naivety. The longing for bygone days transports us into a rose-tinted world. Everything here suggests a close, comforting atmosphere. The pale shades, the textures, the shapes, the floral motifs and the larger than life characters, like heroes in a children's story, allow innocence to overspill into audacity.

Skin is at one and the same time covered up and revealed, letting the body speak for itself - and life.

 

An intriguing symphony in flesh tones, shading from neutral creams to dusky rose hues, allows extremes to peep through. These include brown, which almost neutralises the black, and red, suggesting skin's natural pigment, unveiling a convergence of different races and cultures, and showing how skin alters over time.

The joy of comfort is achieved through soft, fluffy fabrics such as polar fleece, through the softness of the wools, and the stranded wool knits, through the robustness of the material, the pure cotton fabrics and through the use of knitted fabrics such as lycra. These act like a second skin and express light and spontaneous shapes.
Photo: Rui Vasco
Make-up Antónia Rosa with Estée Lauder products
Make-up Antónia Rosa with Estée Lauder products
KATTY XIOMARA has been a fixture on the fashion map since 1997 with her uncompromising, urban style.
She has taken part in design competitions on a regular basis throughout her career. In addition, she has designed collections for several textile companies (Ramirez and Raul; Valindo; Fernando Valente and Company) and uniforms (Facies). She trained in Fashion design at the CITEX Institute, where she currently teaches.
Katty has shown in numerous joint catwalk shows both in Portugal and abroad. Since 1998 she has participated regularly in MODALISBOA and Portugal Fashion, the latter in New York and Paris.
She joined the ABSOLUT VODKA catalogue in 1998 and also in this year launched her first swimwear collection. This was consolidated in 2001 with sponsorship backing. This served to broaden the horizons of the collection and took Katty to Puerto Rico and Miami (Cruise 2002 Show.) She has also created the fitness wear brand FUGA'S BY KATTY XIOMARA, which she showed for the first time in Madrid, during the Spanish International Fashion Week.
She has also worked in the world of the theatre, and stand-out work in this area includes designing the costumes and set for the play "The Divine Comedy", choreographed by Jean Paul Bucchieri, at Lisbon's Belem Cultural Centre.