From yoga to movies:
SAmerican designer Jeremy Scott once again brought looks with attitude to the Moschino catwalk on Thursday, parading models in biker ballerina outfits and flower-shaped dresses. Scott’s designs for spring-summer 2018 showed that character can ooze out of a leather studded jacket, a pink tulle ballet tutu and a delicate flower dress alike. The designs echoed the “couture is an attitude” slogan of his collection in February.
The show began with a biker ballerina wearing a light blue-feathered tutu and a black leather studded jacket.
She was followed by others wearing revealing adorned with fishnet stockings, mesh tops, pearl bodysuits, fascinators and shiny studded boots.
One model wore a light denim jacket with a “my little pony” design on tanding with their arms outstretched under the endless blue sky, the sun on their faces, a small group of women take a yoga class, looking out at Lisbon’s tightly-packed skyline from the rooftop of a city centre hostel.
Often referred to as the “City of Seven Hills”, Lisbon is full of redtiled buildings with spectacular views over the undulating Portuguese capital as it slips down towards the Tagus River.
Long the domain of airconditioners, satellite dishes and washing lines, Lisbon’s rooftops are undergoing a makeover to now host swanky bars, yoga classes, film screenings and concerts.
“It’s all about the views in Lisbon,” said Katrin Heuser, 39, who started offering rooftop yoga classes at the This Is Lisbon Hostel when she moved to the city from London two years ago.
She now holds classes at four other locations with sweeping views of Lisbon too with the aid of two other teachers.
One regular student, 30-yearold Greek IT consultant Maria Anastasiadou said the classes were “completely different” to those held indoors.
“Your body and mind connects with the environment around you and the sun,” she said.
“You start feeling the sun and air touching your skin. Your mind gets clearer, in a strange mix with the noise of the city. All your senses are last ballet tulle skirts, necklaces, leather the back and a rainbow “Moschino” on the top — just like the smartphone cover the Italian fashion house offered in logoed bags to its most important guests.
Biker ballerinas turned into crystal embellished angels-meet-rock chicks, with black and silver bustiers sprouting feather wings.
Rock morphed into classical violin music, heralding the entrance of a model in a pink tulip-shaped outfit, picking petals out of her dress and throwing them into the audience.
A gerbera, poppy and lily all took shape in elegant dresses, alternating with shorter but fuller ones in the shapes of flower buds and a skirt of red roses with an off-the-shoulder draped white top.
Model Gigi Hadid wore a long design in the shape of a huge floral bouquet.
Scott himself closed the show, striding down the black catwalk set in the courtyard of an army barracks, wearing ripped light denim jeans and an iridescent biker jacket, to a clamour of applause.