Among the highlights of a program featuring ten lectures were the presentations on the Human theme, which formed the basis for over a thousand products launched at the event, the preview of the research for 2027_II to be materialized in the next INSPIRAMAIS, and the “Local Iconography – Amazon Biome” project.

One of the most popular lectures at INSPIRAMAIS, the presentation of the Human research, was conducted by Walter Rodrigues, coordinator of the Design and Research Nucleus of the Brazilian Association of Companies of Components for Leather, Footwear and Artifacts (Assintecal). On the occasion, the stylist emphasized that fashion, after a dark period that underpinned the Burnout research, is revived with the keyword Hope. “But it is a committed hope; it is a hope that reclaims the sense of community and utopia,” he stressed. The Human research presented materials influenced by dance, playfulness, maximalism, nostalgia, and youth culture. With a technological base, the Community sub-theme drew heavily from movement, elasticity, and fluidity, featuring many satins, transparencies, and knits. The Utopia sub-theme, on the other hand, brought a lot of intensity, present in maximalism, prints, and distortions. In the color palette, pea green, blue tones, and salmon stood out.

Preview 2027_II

The research that will base the creations presented at the next INSPIRAMAIS, in January 2026, is The Turning Point. Inspired by the sagacity of Fritjof Capra, author of the book The Turning Point (1981), the study is a sharp critique of Cartesian thought. According to Rodrigues, 44 years after the book’s release, history repeats itself. The visionary Capra foresaw a revolution stemming from science that would include new concepts of space, time, and matter. “Today, we add the vision of Francesco Morace, who says that we are, in fact, in the midst of a metamorphosis. We are experiencing an evaporation in an increasingly volatile, ethereal, and ephemeral society. Social media transforms Bauman’s liquid modernity into a gaseous modernity,” he explained.

The research The Turning Point is divided into two main themes: Gaseous and Rupture. In the Gaseous theme, we have two sub-themes – the Biological, which presents surfaces with organic textures inspired by microscopic images, lending fashion airs of amorphousness, futurism, and a gelatinous appearance. Creations feature much lightness, fluidity, and 3D prints, materials and surfaces that behave like air, vapor, light, and emotion. The Holistic sub-theme, on the other hand, is based on “new femininities” forged in systemic vision and ecological perspective. “Here, design emerges as a means of contemplation, affection, and regeneration,” said Rodrigues.

The second theme is Rupture, which goes against the standardization and conventions of the status quo. “In these times of algorithms that homogenize everything, a transformation is necessary, a powerful response that seeks to recover individuality, identity, emotion, and the freedom to be what one wants to be,” emphasized the stylist. In Rupture, what the researcher calls “revision of form” appears. In the creations, the research materializes in classic bases, with the body as a support for new geometries (“things” to wear), three-dimensional constructions of a new language, abrupt folds, deconstructions, and overlays. In The Turning Point’s color palette, blue tones, yellows, oranges, dark greens, and purples primarily appear.

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In addition to the lectures that presented the developed research, INSPIRAMAIS featured the launch of the book “O Jeans do Brasil: Um Mergulho na História do Denim Nacional” (Brazil’s Jeans: An Immersion in the History of National Denim), presentations of The Human Project and the Creative Connection Hub, a panel on fashion marketing, and the Local Iconography: Amazon Biome project, among others.

The Exhibition

INSPIRAMAIS was organized by Assintecal in partnership with the Center for Tanning Industries of Brazil (CICB), the Brazilian Association of Textile and Apparel Industry (Abit), and the Brazilian Association of Furniture Industries (Abimóvel). It was produced by Brazilian Materials and partnered with Sebrae Nacional. The next edition of the event will take place on January 27 and 28, 2026, at the FIERGS Event Center in Porto Alegre/RS.