SPOTLIGHT
The craft behind the country
Long-form features on the techniques, cooperatives and clusters that make Brazilian fashion materially distinct — and on the people who keep them alive.
Runway · NYFW · Craft · Business · 15 September 2026
BRASIL ESPLÊNDIDO: INSIDE PATBO'S SPRING 2027 SHOW AT NEW YORK FASHION WEEK
On September 15, 2026, Patrícia Bonaldi closed New York Fashion Week's Spring/Summer 2027 calendar at Domino Square, Brooklyn, with a collection built around the gardens of Roberto Burle Marx — and the brand's first-ever eyewear line. Here's what showed, what it means for PatBO's next category, and how it landed with critics.
9 min read
Northeast · Textile · Monteiro, Paraíba · Northeast
Renda Renascença
A needle lace tracing back to sixteenth-century Venice, reinvented since the 1950s in the Cariri backlands of Paraíba and now protected cultural heritage.
7 min read
Material · Community · Tocantins · Central
Capim Dourado
Golden grass harvested under a strict community calendar in the Jalapão savannah, stitched into jewellery with a sheen no dye can imitate.
6 min read
South · Manufacturing · Industry · Santa Catarina · South
The knitwear corridor
Industrial-scale mills descended from German and Italian migration, now among Brazil's most technically capable producers of jersey and circular knit.
6 min read
North · Material · Sustainability · Acre · North
Couro Vegetal
Amazonian rubber-coated cotton, tapped in Acre and laminated into a leather alternative with a forest economy behind it.
5 min read
Northeast · Textile · Alagoas · Northeast
Filé
Net embroidery from the lagoon communities of Alagoas, worked on hand-knotted mesh.
5 min read
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Production map
Where things are made
Denim & jeanswear
Toritama & Caruaru, PE
One of the highest-volume denim ecosystems in the Americas, built on dense networks of small workshops.
Knitwear & jersey
Blumenau & Brusque, SC
Technically advanced mills with strong finishing capability and growing low-impact dye infrastructure.
Footwear & leather
Franca & Novo Hamburgo
Historic shoe clusters serving both mass and premium markets, with established export logistics.
Cotton & agroecology
Ceará & Paraíba
Organic and naturally coloured cotton grown by family farming cooperatives with certification pathways.