Carmen Redux.THE FASHION CROWD CAN'T GET ITS FILL OF BRAZIL. Not since Carmen Miranda '' Carmen Miranda, pron. IPA: ['kaɾme͂j mi'rɐ͂dɐ], (February 9, 1909 – August 5, 1955); birth name Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, GCIH) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian[1] brought her fruit-hatted style to the world five decades ago has the South American country so captured the fashion spotlight. Sparked by the success of Brazilian supermodel-of-the-moment, 20-year-old Gisele Bundchen, model agents are swooping down on the country. At the same time, interest in local designers is revving up. Brazilians are doing their part to feed the fashion frenzy: Shopping malls in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, city, Brazil Rio de Janeiro (rē`ō də zhänā`rō, Port. rē`  thĭ zhənĕē`r have hosted fashion weeks
that drew international film crews and New York New York, state, United StatesNew York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of buyers. In beach-lapped Rio, bikinis--and monokinis--dominated the repertoire. In more staid Sao Paulo, models with eye-covering bangs, the trademark of designer Alexandre Herchcovitch Alexandre Herchcovitch (born in 21 July, 1971, in São Paulo, Brazil) is a fashion designer. He had his first contact with fashion through his mother, Regina, at the age of ten, when she gave him basic lessons of modelling and sewing at Herchcovitch's request. , bounced onto the runway in dresses of rainforest rubber. As proof that Brazilian fashion knows no social class, recent shows included the haute couture debut of M. Officer-label jeans, which are sewn by workers at a favela favela In Brazil, a slum or shantytown. A favela comes into being when squatters occupy vacant land at the edge of a city and construct shanties of salvaged or stolen materials. cooperative. |
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