Patricia Candido burst into the fashion industry in 2004 with her unique style of Brazilian Jewelry.
Patricia’s designs were first discovered by the owner of a trendy Beverly Hills boutique. Within days of placing her bracelets in the store, Halle Berry bought every Candido-created item that the store had and showered them on the cast and crew of her Oprah Winfrey production "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
Within weeks, her designs where featured on the finals and semi-finals of American Idol, with Carrie Underwood and Bo Bice, the season premiere of America’s Next Top Model, and Barbra Streisand wore a Candido original in the final wedding scenes of Meet the Fockers.
Before the year was over she had already been feature in respected fashion magazines including: Elle, Glamour, Marie Claire, WWD, In Style, Lucky, In Touch, FOAM and Zink, not to mention countless local magazines, newspapers and fashion blogs. Patricia soon found a long list of celebrities wearing her fashions including supermodels Cindy Crawford, Tyra Banks and Brooke Burke.
So what makes her designs so different?
Patricia came up with the idea of taking the basic designs of jewelry which had been created for hundreds of years by Indians in the Brazilian Amazonian Region and redesigning them to fit a modern fashion industry. The Brazilian Indians sewed organic materials easily found in the forest into leather cords to form bracelets, chokers and earrings. Patricia’s idea was to combine that basic design with Brazil’s other great natural resource, gemstones. But rather than using leather, Patricia came up with the unique idea to use soft dark denim cords. She found that not only were they comfortable to wear, but eco-friendly as well. The results were beautiful.
From humble beginnings, her designs are now distributed worldwide. |
