Tessuti blouse, 2nd Floor skirt, Simone Nunes necklace
Contrast is a virtue when it comes to fashion: hot girl in fancy clothes, shitty one-star hotel. Welcome to this shoot.
Posts Tagged ‘Brazil’
Fashion = being really quick at processing information and spreading it
For years architects have been trying to be bands, getting together and giving themselves names like Superstudio, MUF and Archigram. But apart from As Four – who were all sleeping together – fashion labels have resisted. Fashion designers haven’t really gone in for being in a band thing either – until now. Brazilians Alloyha Copacabana describe themselves as a “visual band”. The music they perform is totally incidental to their obsession with dressing up, constructing looks and being seen – all normal everyday fashion stuff – but they’re amazing at it and are pretty famous in São Paulo. Read more »
Walking in a shoemaker’s shoes
Surprising someone with an unexpected interview is a good way to get to know them. Doing that twice, though, is the perfect way to get on their nerves. When I had the idea to write about Chilean shoemaker Nelson Ujeda I thought it’d be a piece of cake. The first time I talked to him, out of sheer curiosity, he opened himself like a flower, talking loads about his life and his profession: making high-heeled shoes for a very specific clientele, the workers and residents of Baixo Augusta. Read more »
