Maria Siqueira

Eyes on Talents member, Maria Siqueira, has just graduated from the Institut Français de la Mode with her MA collection Neostalgia. Before her foray into IFM fashion design, Maria undertook a one-year program in Sweden, majoring in social entrepreneurship and sustainability, where she crafted her first upcycled garments, before moving to Belgium where she obtained her BA in fashion design at La Cambre. Inspired by the nostalgic photography of Artur Pastor, Maria Siqueira’s final collection strings the traditional silhouettes and symbolic elements of her Portuguese heritage with new technologies to create textiles using 3D printing. While freeing herself from gender archetypes and focusing on the garments and the body, Neostalgia aims to harmoniously combine nostalgia and modernity.