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"  Photo: Courtesy of John-Paul Pietrus  &amp;quot;Brazilian women love being very sexy,&amp;quot; says Lucas Nascimento, a Londoner born in S\u00E3o Paulo. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s not really my thing.&amp;quot; Like the generation of young British designers before him\u2014call them the YBDs, a group including Mary Katrantzou, Christopher Kane, and Erdem, who collectively pioneered a digital-print revolution\u2014the London College of Fashion grad is far more excited by technical innovation than overt sex appeal. &amp;quot;I like making knits that don&amp;#039;t look like knits,&amp;quot; he says. Over his first three seasons as a British Fashion Council NEWGEN recipient\u2014a bursary created to help fledgling designers offset show costs\u2014Nascimento developed all manner of trompe l&amp;#039;oeil textiles, from a mix of Lurex and boucl\u00E9 that could pass for neoprene to ultrafine chenilles that look like suede. His clean, modernist shapes made the 34-year-old a favorite of editors and e-tailers alike, with accounts at My-wardrobe.com and Matches Fashion. But for his first full-on runway show, for spring/ summer 2014, Nascimento looked to an image that is old-school sensual: Brigitte Bardot swathed in a towel in Jean-Luc Godard&amp;#039;s Contempt (1963). &amp;quot;I find it fascinating how women look so beautiful when they are getting ready,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;I wanted to capture the feeling of stepping out unadorned.&amp;quot; To this end, he crafted strapless dresses in a gorgeous silk plush &amp;quot;towel&amp;quot; knit and dreamed up an inlaid fabric using transparent yarn that, when cut in a column, gives the effect of seeing the wearer&amp;#039;s body through a steamy shower curtain. Put another way, these are conceptual knits one can imagine will set the pulse racing on both sides of the fashion equator.  Photo: Courtesy of John-Paul Pietrus  Related: Barbara Casasola&amp;#039;s Takes Us to Pitti "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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