Nair Xavier

Grey Sheep

@xaviernair

Location

lisbon / portugal

University

london college of fashion

Graduation year

2011

Main Manufacturing Countries

portugal

Contact

Nair Xavier is a menswear designer graduated from London College of Fashion in 2011 that started her own clothing brand under her name. The brand’s designs are modern and clean. Balancing from classic/casual wear to sportswear, the brand focuses on detail and cutting edge designs paired with an innovative approach to materials and shapes.
Since its debut on January 2014, Nair Xavier has been presenting seasonal collections at Lisbon Fashion Week – ModaLisboa.
In May 2015 Nair Xavier was awarded Best New Fashion Designer at the ‘Prémios Novos’ ceremony that distinguishes new talents in Portugal.

Latest Collection

NgaKUYAA

"The job of the conscious is to make the unconscious conscious"
Kwame Turé

SS 18 | Lisbon Fashion Week
In collaboration with DINIZ & CRUZ, this collection is a reflection upon the ancestry, heritage and cultural survival of Afro-descendant people.

The lines and cuts of this collection reflect the struggle for equality and legacy of the revolutionary Black Panthers in the 1970´s. In an analysis of adaptation, evolution and globalization, leaves the question, how much os ourselves have we lost from generatyion to generation?

The Maasai tribe comes as an answer. Africa is the birthplace of the world.
From generation to generation, the Maasai and the fight for equality from the Black Panthers as ancestral heritage fot the Afro-descendent individuals, emerge:

Previous collections

KALYMON AW16-17 CAMPAIGN

'KALYMNOS' AW16-17 LISBON FASHION WEEK

'ERMO' SS16 NAIR XAVIER LOOKBOOK

'ERMO' SS16 NAIR XAVIER LISBON FASHION WEEK
'ENDYMION' AW15-16 NAIR XAVIER - LOOKBOOK

'ENDYMION' AW15-16 NAIR XAVIER - LISBON FASHION WEEK

'ORCHIDARIUM' S/S16 NAIR XAVIER - LOOKBOOK

'ORCHIDARIUM' S/S16 NAIR XAVIER - CAMPAIGN