Joana Duarte uses old bed covers, tablecloths, curtains, and other vintage textiles that she finds in markets in and around her native Lisbon to make her pieces.
Duarte uses old bed covers, tablecloths, curtains, and other vintage textiles that she finds in markets in and around her native Lisbon to make her pieces. Or she does custom orders for women who have seen her work online. They text Duarte or reach out via, asking her to give new life to their mother’s old quilts or their wedding linens. Duarte’s designs include jackets and overcoats made with patterned textiles, as well as ruffled and scallop-edged crop tops with beaded straps.
“My mission is to promote and preserve Portuguese heritage and savoir faire,” says Duarte, whose grandmother taught her to sew and embroider. Indeed, the idea behind Béhen is to honor legacies and tradition, but also to push the industry forward as a whole. “Fashion can do good,” she says. “As a designer, it’s my responsibility to find solutions to problems in the industry, like the problems of waste.
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