Sobre mim
Sou licenciada em Design de Moda, pela Universidade da Beira Interior e Mestre em Branding e Design de Moda, curso que resulta numa parceria entre a Universidade da Beira Interior e o IADE (2013).
Ainda em fase de formação assisti a designer Lara Torres no seu atelier (2012), onde participei na execução do figurino para a performance de Sónia Baptista, Tempus Fugit; e no ano seguinte colaborei com a designer Sofia Vilarinho e as designers Ermelinda Mandlaze e Plácida Mendes, no projeto de doutoramento de Sofia, uma co-autoria que deu lugar ao produto Capulanar, apresentado no Lisboa Design Show (LXD'13).
About me
I'm a Fashion Designer from the University of Beira Interior (UBI), and Master in Branding and Fashion Design from a partnership betweenthe UBI and the IADE, 2013.
I live in Mindelo, Cape Verde and I have an atelier/store of my own, Vanessa Monteiro Design, where I show and sell my work and also co-productions. As an independent designer I launched two collections Women Care it All, 2017 and Beyond, 2014 and produced both runway shows in Mindelo; as a collective I'm co-author, with researcher Rita Rainho, in the project Neve Insular, bornt in 2018.
Since 2017 I collaborate with Nacional Centre for Arts, Crafts and Design - CNAD, where I'm part of the creative team of URDI - Fair for Crafts and Design of Cabo Verde; besides this, I participate in several projects for this sector, the most recent Regulamentation and Professionel Recognition of the Crafts.
Until I move to Cape Verde, I was Fashion Editor at GQ Portugal, 2015 and draw costumes for the Dance Company of Almada, (Portugal, 2015), for the plays Não Lugar, Daniela Andana and Nautilus, Bruno Duarte, for Viagem - Collective Exhibition, at Casa da Cerca. In 2013, I draw the uniforms for the phisiotheray's clinic FisioLuanda, Angola, and the basketball's equipement of Académica do Mindelo (2014).
During my formation I assist designer Lara Torres at her atelier (2012), where I participated in the costume for Sónia's Baptista performance Tempus Fugit; and the next year I collaborate with designer Sofia Vilarinho and designers Ermelinda Mandlaze e Plácida Mendes, in the PhD projet of Sofia, that resulted in a autorship product Capulanar, introduced in Lisboa Design Show (LXD'13).