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Felipe Oliveira Baptista (born in 1975) is a Portuguese fashion designer. Felipe Oliveira Baptista was born in 1975 on the Portuguese Atlantic archipelago of the Azores. He graduated from Kingston University in London, where he studied design and fashion design. Thereafter he worked for Max Mara, Christophe Lemaire and Cerruti. In 2003, he founded his own label and now lives and works in Paris with his wife and two children. In 2005, Baptista showed at Haute Couture Week in Paris for the first time, which marked the beginning of a relationship that would see the Fédération Française De La Couture invite him to Shanghai to exhibit his work two years later. Baptista debuted his accessories line and staged his first ready-to-wear show at Paris Fashion Week in 2009.

In addition to designing under his own name Baptista has taken part in a number of high profile collaborations, including ‘AW77' with Nike, which would see the sportswear giant also commission a book; Baptista also collaborated with Uniqlo in 2006.

His collections have been sold in stores such as Colette and Galeries Lafayette in Paris and Podium in Moscow. He is a member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. In 2010 he was appointed creative manager of Lacoste.

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