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Revamped Sao Paulo Fashion Week highlights new format, new brands

Sao Paulo's 46th Fashion Week, Latin America's most important fashion show, is underway this week featuring a new venue, a new format, and the debut of four new labels. This year's theme is titled "Tran[sp]posicion" (Modification). Novelties included workshops, presentations and panel discussions. Lilly Sarti, the fashion brand run by sisters...

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Brazilian prisoners get fashionable in couture project

Never mind running away -- these Brazilian prisoners prefer the fashion runway. The inmates of the Adriano Marrey penitentiary near Sao Paulo are part of a project using couture to help rehabilitate convicts and give them a chance to stitch together a new life. "Yarn and the crochet hook are my new weapons," said Honorato Bezerra, who has been...

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Valentina Sampaio is 'fighting for a better world'

Valentina Sampaio, the first transgender model to make the cover of French "Vogue", will be flying the flag for the LGBT movement at Milan fashion week. The 22-year-old Brazilian, who appeared on the cover of Elle Brazil in November and has modelled for labels such as Gisela Franck and Rchlo, is in the city to attend casting sessions in the hope...