Micaela Sapinho

Grey Sheep

www.instagram.com/micaela.sapinho

Location

london / United Kingdom

University

cambridge school of art

Micaela Sapinho was born in Évora, Portugal in 1995. She began her training in the Visual Arts field in 2010 at the Francisco Rodrigues Lobo Secondary School in Leiria. Three years later, she moved to Cambridge, United Kingdom, to study Fashion Design at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University. Which she concluded in June 2016 and graduated with a First Class Honours degree in October 2016.

In October 2016, she showcased her debut collection at Lisboa Fashion Week,as part of the Sangue Novo competition. More recently, in March 2017, Micaela had the opportunity to be part of Lisboa Fashion Week again, this time with a Fall Winter 2017 collection entitled #memyselfieandi.

Latest Collection

#memyselfieandi

Inspired by today's addiction to social media, which could easily be considered a fundamental characteristic of my generation. A generation that values documenting someone's life more than actually living it. It reflects a plastic happiness and bears a never-ending competition of posts and tweets.

My self-esteem is measured in likes and I hand it over to total strangers and virtual passers-by.

This is how stereotyped beauty standards erase identities and transform us in a true doll army. #memyselfieandi satirizes the obsession of the selfie, which while it might seem narcissistic, it actually has the paradoxical and perverse purpose of pleasing the other. This collection and its (self) critical values are intended to be the collective alarm of a liberating consciousness.

Previous collections

The Other

Latest Collection

#memyselfieandi

Previous collections

The Other

Films