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São Paulo Fashion Week Winter 2015

by Marcus Chang

Brazilian Bombshells

See all the highlights from the runway, including supermodel cameos, innovative designs, and artistic influences, at Brazil’s biannual fashion week.

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A Rio Winter According to SACADA, a well-known brand from Rio de Janeiro, geometric patterns inspired by the Incas in silk and wool are perfect for a tropical winter.

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Power Players With hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers each, fashion bloggers Thássia Naves, LaLa Rudge, and Camila Coutinho warrant front row seats—right next to top editors and celebrities.

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Homecoming King Alexandre Herchcovitch, who showed for years at New York Fashion Week, returns to São Paulo with a touch of hipster, seen in his flannel raincoats.

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Brazilian Bombshells When Brazilian supermodels Gisele Bundchen, Caroline Trentini, and Isabeli Fontana walk the runway, they get cheered like rock stars. Bundchen couldn’t even keep a straight face—she smiled all the way down the catwalk.

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Brazil’s Next Top Model Although she is only a few months shy of her 18th birthday, rising supermodel Thairine Garcia walked nearly every show in São Paulo Fashion Week. With a handful of covers already under her belt, she’s a likely contender to become a major player on the global stage.

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Collaboration Nation Stella McCartney, Donatella Versace, and Cecilia Dean unveiled their exclusive collaborations with Brazil’s commercial brands C&A, Riachuelo, and Melissa, respectively.

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The Kiss Lino Villaventura presented a collection that channeled Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, who, like the designer, was also heavily inspired by Japan.

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8

Zip Up Animale’s minimalist collection, inspired by the nomadic silk route, featured zippers in all the right places.

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9

Family Time Gloria Coelho, Reinaldo Lourenço, and their son Pedro Lourenço are certainly a fashionable family—each has an eponymous label with a distinct vision of how a modern woman should dress.

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Horsing Around Designer Victor Dzenk’s equestrian-inspired collection, which reinterpreted patterns from the Brazilian horse breed Mangalarga Marchador, was a welcome addition to the stable of leopard and zebra prints.

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El Dorado Aquastudio’s all gold collection embodies Brazilian glamour.

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