The 33rd edition of INSPIRAMAIS, Latin America’s most influential materials salon, closed its doors after two days of high-impact innovation, global exchange, and deep reflection on the future of fashion.
Held January 27–28, 2026, at the FIERGS Event Center in Porto Alegre, the event reaffirmed its role as a creative compass for the industry, a place where research, aesthetics, and cultural shifts converge to shape what comes next.
At the heart of this edition was The Turning Point, a research narrative led by Walter Rodrigues that proposes a new lens for understanding contemporary fashion. Drawing from Fritjof Capra’s The Turning Point and moving beyond Bauman’s “Liquid Modernity,” Rodrigues suggests we have entered “Gaseous Modernity,” an era defined by volatility, acceleration, and the evaporation of certainties. Fashion, in this context, becomes atmospheric: fluid, unstable, and constantly reconfiguring itself.
The study unfolds through three conceptual atmospheres:
Gaseous Holistic
A feminine, contemplative universe where technology and emotion coexist. Materials evoke softness and transparency, such as tulle, nylon, airy volumes, and hybrid surfaces often shaped through AI-assisted experimentation.
Gaseous Biological
A digitally ancestral landscape of organic textures, layered structures, cellular and gelatinous aesthetics, and biomaterials such as biopolymers and nanocellulose. It imagines a future where nature and technology merge into new material ecologies.
Rupture
A counterforce reclaiming individuality through 3D constructions, abrupt folds, fragmentation, and body-based geometries. It challenges repetition and celebrates the irregular, the personal, the unexpected.
The palette of ice violet, yellow, and aqua reinforces the sense of atmospheric transition.
Beyond Turning Point, INSPIRAMAIS also spotlighted Iconografía Local Bioma Amazónico, a powerful translation of Amazonian identity into innovative materials, and offered a preview of Essência, the next research theme.
What’s Next: Essência
Looking ahead to the July edition, Essência reexamines the meaning of luxury in a world where price competition threatens its cultural value. The research proposes two opposing yet complementary directions:
Purism, a return to silence, ancestry, and essentialism, expressed through clean leathers, satin finishes, delicate prints, and couture-like refinement; and Popism, a celebration of intentional excess inspired by baroque drama and pop culture, bold prints, florals, sensory intensity, and vibrant color.
Together, they frame a future where luxury is not about abundance, but about meaning.
