Portuguese footwear honours the Portuguese culture. Walking side by side, the footwear industry has been celebrating the arts and the national culture for 12 years. In 2022, APICCAPS pays homage to the works and the main artists of the Portuguese painting scene that symbolize what distinguishes us as a country, civilization and a collective personality. It is what makes us unique in a world ever more open, diverse and globalized.

Paula Rego painted the "A Filha da Polícia” (The policemen’s daughter), in 1987, in a series of paintings that show dysfunctional family relations, respectively, between fathers and daughters. In this period, the artist began painting with real models, especially Lila Nunes, which portrays the majority of women in her paintings.

In the work, the daughter of a policemen cleans his father’s boot. Alongside this painting, Paula Rego created "A Filha do Soldado” (the solder’s daughter) and "O Cadete e a irmã” (the cadet and the sister), in 1988. This work, in particular, was on the cover of the art magazine Frieze in September 2021.
The painting is in exhibition at Tate Modern in London.