Signature Room by Kristine
Les Amours Éphémères
With the aim of promoting local art and offering our guests a unique experience, we have invited several artists from the Leiria region to decorate ten of our 27 rooms. This collaboration aims not only to give the Leiriartem Hotel a more distinctive and creative atmosphere, but also to celebrate and showcase the talent of Leiria’s artists, transforming the rooms into veritable contemporary art galleries, where every detail reflects the creativity and cultural identity of the artists and the region. Discover the Signature by Kristine room, entitled ‘Les Amours Éphémères’.
Concept
The project, themed "Les Amours Éphémères", was inspired by the women who played a part in King Dinis’s love life.
A veritable parade of passions, beauty and vanity that my mind, as a fashion designer, imagined parading through the gallery of the arcades at Leiria Castle, as if from a passarelle .
A Passerelle that has twice served as the venue for glamorous fashion shows showcasing her collections—creating a strong bond that ties the artist to this city, which has welcomed her so warmly. Upon entering this space, the artist wants visitors to experience the full atmosphere of a haute couture atelier and to discover the most important stages in the creation of a collection.
Starting with the different moodboards where we showcase the theme, colour palette, silhouettes, patterns and textures that inspired the collection. Next comes the ‘wall’ where the illustrations and technical sketches are arranged in order, alongside fabric samples and sewing trims, for all the designs that will be produced for the fashion show. The dress form, where the prototypes and final designs are tried on to see if they require any adjustments or alterations. And finally, the famous passarelle, where the models will strut the catwalk with elegance, showcasing the result of months of hard work and creativity to the public.
Gallery
About the artist
Kristine
Kristine was born in 1972 in Paris, the fashion capital. Although she studied law for several years, first at Paris XII University in Paris and then at the University of Minho in Braga, she eventually followed her passion and became one of the 15 students selected for the Fashion Design course at CITEX Porto.
The certainty that she was on the right path came when she was selected to represent her school at Porto de Moda, and shortly afterwards for Sangue Novo at ModaLisboa.
After completing her studies in 2001, she worked for a year as freelancer for various brands in Paris over the course of a year; during this time, she took part in an exhibition of young designers with a collection – Workshop Paris - having been selected as one of the 41 promising talents worldwide by the supplement “Percosi di Creatividà” from Fashion Italia Magazine and was invited by the fashion designer Gai Mattiolo to design his denim collection in Bologna, Italy.
In that same year, she registered her first trademark “Kristine” and opened a shop in Porto. Under the Kristine brand, she staged memorable fashion shows, including two at Leiria Castle, which led to several interviews on national television programmes such as “Espelho meu”, “Moda Portugal” from RTP.
She has been invited on numerous occasions to take part in Lisbon’s VFNO. She also took part in the fashion shows at the Óbidos Chocolate Festival, where, in addition to the clothes, the guest designers created accessories made of chocolate.
In 2016, she won the ParaFashion award at the first edition of Paratissima Lisbon, which enabled her to take part in the Paratissima Turin fashion shows in Italy. In 2017, she launched the ready-to-wear brand “Spicy Pink”, avant-garde and characterised by its exclusive prints.
In 2018, the first fashion show of Spicy Pink at LXD in Lisbon. Following this fashion show, she received countless invitations, such as to dress Sónia Aráujo on the RTP programme “Cosido a mão” and, at an international level, to take part in the parades of the London Fashion Night Out, as well as integrating the brands sold in the luxury market of the Grand Mix in Hengqin, China, in 2019.
In 2020, she designed her first collection for the Leah brand, and in 2022 for the Sahoco brand, part of the Século XXI Fashion Trading group.
Since 2024, she has been focusing on developing her brand Spicy Pink, tapping into the Portuguese and Spanish markets.
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