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Article: BRAZIL: GARMENTS FROM SLUMS IN RIO MADE IN AFRICAN STYLE.
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- August 2, 2007
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According to anba: It all started in the second half of last year, when three artists from Kenya, an African country, spent one month exchanging their experiences about artistic technique and fashion with a representative of non-governmental organization (NGO) A??o Comunit?ria do Brasil (Community Action of Brazil), in Rio de Janeiro, in the southeast of the South American country. The thirty or so days were enough for a collection of clothes to have been drawn by November 2006, using African moulds and painting techniques. The designing of the collection was coordinated by stylist N?bia Beatriz Gomes Ferreira Fontes, a member of the NGO. The production is now in the hands ...