While I was living in Sao Paulo, Brazil recently, I created a temporary blog about music and fashion (which ended up being the baby for Retail DJ). Here’s a post that I thought was appropriate to include about an awesome little boutique in Rio and a few throwback tracks worth giving a listen as you check out their wares.
- Retail DJ
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i recently bought a gigantic purse from the galeria melissa (huge melissa shoe store in sao paulo) that, while out of my usual price range for purposes, is amazing. it’s big enough for me to sit in, meaning it’s perfect for me, the average new yorker who carries around half of her fridge, closet, and desk drawer in her purse. it’s much cuter in person, but here’s a pic for the hell of it:
the bag “goes both ways,” meaning it has straps on both sides. via the shorter leather straps, it’s more of a bucket shape. via the side clothes draped straps, it’s more of a teardrop shape. the fabric: canvas. the print: handpainted images of people working along with random splotches of color, trees,and other miscellaneous items. the designer: muggia
muggia is a rio-based boutique located in one of rio’s most upscale neighborhoods, botafogo. the store, whose owners twin sisters Ana Beatriz e Juliana Suassuna have always had a pension for design, opened in 2005 to a brazil hungry for original wares. they make clothes, jewelry, and other accessories, but are best known for their jewelry and bags, which they distribute throughout brazil.
here’s an inside look at the atelier:
one of the owners:
OMG SHE’S WEARING TABI SHOES!!! HOW CUTE IS THAT??!?!?!
here’s a look at the bags (swoon):
muggia:
rua real grandeza, 182, casa 8, botafogo, rio de janeiro (21) 3511-5470
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and just an added extra…
RIO, by the bumblebeez (amazing australian band):
re-worked by Herve (amazing british dj):
and as re-worked by crookers, amazing italian dj duo (whom i had the pleasure of seeing perform live while on vacation in portugal at Lux, a club owned by john malkovich in lisbon (Random!!!)):
ahhh globalization…
Tags: bags, brazil, bumblebeez, cool stores, crookers, herve, melissa, muggia, rio
