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He is a newcomer but already successed in the last edition of ModaLisboa (Lisbon Fashion Week) with a collection that joined the project workstation. With two rooms for himself: One with hanged pieces from the ceiling, a fridge with beers where the labe was maliciously replaced by information related to the collcetion, some computers with acces to his blog and the other where indie-rock bands played dressed by him, OFILHOBASTARDO, aka Vítor Bastos, 23 years oldborn in Brazil.
Arrived in Portugal with 18 years old, but he "didnt have any certainity" - in a bet that is won by now-, lived in several cities, first in Santarém with family, then he moved to Algarvewhere he worked as a recepcionst in a hotel till he goes to Porto and discovers the School of Fashion, CITEX. Afterward passd by the atelier of Lidija Kolovrat and recently was borowed to the conceptual german duo BLESS for an internship in Berlin. " I came here to see how a company works from inside, a company that has a different creative process". He was going to stay three months but now he is staying four.

Back to his collection presented at ModaLisboa. Is the one that he considers as the highest stage of his career; it was about an ironic closer in to the american countryside: pecies in denim and reinterpratationsof the 501 mixed with transparences, with and used aspect. "The concept of the collection was the White Trash. Arhguing a little about this so violent expresion, Víttpr adds " It was the name given to the white people who worked in the fields on the american coloy where was no slavery." I asked if it were the Rednecks, countrysiders homofobic radicals e he said yes. Everything in an ironic matter, naturally, what leads us in to thework of the american designer Jeremy Scott. "Maybe I'm the new Jeremy Scott." He plays. Maybe he is.

Won the contest Acrobactic (Porto, Portugal) - old Porto deModa, 2008, been elected the best with a even more polemic theme: Awakenings - A mini collection that consisted in three outfits insipred by the sunni iraquian popular militia. Evreyone had the faces covered with pieces inspired by the burkas. This is what we can expect from the Bastard Son, name that has origin in the break with the brand that financed it initially daughter of god. One thing leads to another, the willness to shock and not to pass unobserved is assumed and thus its concept is born. And in fact says he says yes, that he it feels of certain forms a bastard son in the world of the fashion.

He is clearly an anti-star and anti-fashion. Because of that he also like Martin Margiela, the most enigmatic person of the fashion galaxy. But deep inside he confesses that he doesnt care that much about the work of the others and that he has a relationship of love and hate with clothes and its enviroment.About music we talked about Elis Regina, tragic, David Bowie, resistent. But with who he is really in love is the portuguese people.I saked him what was better in the city of Porto and in Portugal, " the people, i have a lot to thank to the city.!

His blog began last year, but is a lot juicy: with videos, pictures and every kind of material that bring us the identidy of the Bastard Son. Diserves an urgent visit by the ones that want to antecipate the name that will have to be remained on the next years.

As usual in this cases, the willness to know the work in loco and to buy in first hand one piece of a new designer that causes santation in big, but the commercial reality wont let us through. By now some pieces are available through the blog, there was already atemporary shop experience and a corner in a shop in Porto s been negociated, by now there's no further details.Although one of the objectives is to live of his work, he is still in time to make experienses and to act as an outsider.

In his agenda there is the presentation of the Summer 2010, in which he'll start to work as soon as he comes from Berlin. "One of my biggest concerns at the moment is to run out of the style matter, its not in my objecives. Of course it will come out as the years go by... At the time I'm exploring concepts, technics and ways of presentation... If the frame is the same, with the logo and the communication design in minimal black and white, i can talk about different themes and shapes with all the liberty".

ByMiguel Matos
Source www.ruadebaixo.blogspot.com

OFILHOBASTARDO as a translator of his own interview for RDB, Portugal
It took a while... now its done (sorry for typing and english mistakes)