Melissa Plastic Dreams

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The New York Design Week, the city’s main design event, has inspired Inhabitat magazine to announce in its website the arrival of Melissa Campana in new colors to the United States. “[Melissa Campana flats] Pay homage to the legendary Campana Brothers who designed these comfy masterpieces by showcasing their work - on your feet!”, says the text written by Yuka Yoneda. The note, according to her, is a call to “all eco-fashionistas and design aficionados”. By the way, Melissa flats are 100% ...

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Running and working hard is something that also belongs to the fashion world – and specially to this world. That’s the premise of the new reality show produced by Marie Claire, called “Running in Heels”. The show is broadcasted by the US television on Sundays and is getting more and more attention with its episodes on glamour and “hard working” in fashion. And also because of its characters – the neo fashionistas Ashley, Talita and Samantha, who work for Nina, the big fashion editor – that do the most impossibly elegant tasks and travel around the world to cover international fashion weeks for the magazine. In one of these trips, Nina and her crew have been to Rio Fashion Summer, the ...

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Two design “Oscars” were handed to Melissa in the second edition of the Top XXI Mercado Design 2009 Award, promoted by the Brazilian magazine ARC Design with the goal to recognize and stimulate professionals and companies that build the Brazilian design. They were Highlight/Company (for Grendene) and Design in Plastic (for the brand’s collections). The award party took place in Sao Paulo on the 16th of April, with the sponsorship of Sebrae, Abiplast and the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) and the participation of the competitors in the various categories of the event, such as Brastemp, Tramontina, Coza, Motorola, Tok & Stok and H. Stern. The winners were chosen in a process that ...