After a one-off show in London last season, Marta Marques and Paolo Almeida were back in their home country of Portugal for fall. But don’t let this runway footage fool you; set in the middle of a sun-drenched vineyard, this “show” featured no guests. The designers were invited by the Portuguese tourism board to present one of their collections in the country. Leave it to this creative duo to turn their lookbook into an advertising campaign for a Portuguese getaway.

On the makeshift runway, the Marques’Almeida collection looks a little more sophisticated than usual. “It’s not a traditionally elegant collection,” offered Almeida, calling in from his studio hours before departing for a well-deserved August holiday, “but it is a little more grown-up, we were so young when we started!”

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