Sao Paulo Fashion Week may not be as big as New York or London or Paris or Milan (yet), but it’s gotten pretty substantial. In case you had misconceptions, Sao Paulo has way more to offer than bikinis and beachwear, but they definitely have a unique perspective on fashion that was exciting to take in. Read more →
SAO PAULO–Reinaldo Lourenço is one of Sao Paulo’s most established and respected designers–and also one of the only ones that showed offsite this week. Instead of the Fundação Bienal, which is sort of like an oversized Milk Studios, he showed in a grand church-like building at FAAP, Sao Paulo’s fashion school. While Lourenço, unlike his Read more →
One of our favorite collections from Sao Paolo was Reinaldo Lourenço‘s. He said his collection, which featured several looks with cat silhouettes like the one above, was inspired by the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. But, was that the only thing that inspired him to cover his girls’ girls with cat heads? We Read more →
I went to Sao Paulo fashion week to learn about Brazilian fashion, and I was surprised and impressed with what I saw. (I was also tickled by some extreme looks that came down the runways–extreme looks are de rigueur on the runway and most folks don’t get to see them–and so I wrote a lighthearted humorous post about them. Some folks were amused, many were not. So it goes.)
Brazilian fashion, I learned, is much more than colorful printed beachwear and bikinis (though Brazil does both those things exceedingly well). Here are five Brazilian labels that should be on your radar. There are, of course, lots more to know about but here’s a start.
*My travel and accommodations for Sao Paulo fashion week, courtesy ABEST (Associação Brasileira de Estilistas).
**All photos: © Agência Fotosite/Zé Takahashi via FFW.com.br
