It was during Paris’s first pandemic lockdown that the fashion designer Marco Ribeiro felt he’d reached a creative inflection point.
“I was like, ‘I can go one of two ways,’” he recalls.
“ ‘Either very commercial’ — but nobody was buying anything at the time, and nobody knew how long that would last — ‘or very crazy.’ I chose crazy.”In 2019, the now-35-year-old Brazilian, who’d moved to Paris after 11 years in Buenos Aires, where he sold hand-painted bags and clothing, mostly to friends, had launched his first women’s wear line, a collection of tailored, minimalist pieces.
But he never really felt like the work reflected him — where he came from, or what he wanted to convey.
In place of his previous monotones are color blocking, bold stripes and a clash of florals and plaids.
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