Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Advance Happy Valentine's Day! (June 12)
In Brazil, the Dia dos Namorados (lit. "Day of the Enamored", or "Boyfriends'/Girlfriends' Day") is celebrated on June 12, when couples exchange gifts, chocolates, cards and flower bouquets. This day was chosen probably because it is the day before the Festa junina’s Saint Anthony's day, known there as the marriage saint, when traditionally many single women perform popular rituals, called simpatias, in order to find a good husband or boyfriend.
The February 14's Valentine's Day is not celebrated at all, mainly for cultural and commercial reasons, since it usually falls too little before or after Carnival, a major floating holiday in Brazil — long regarded as a holiday of sex and debauchery by many in the country — that can fall anywhere from early February to early March.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Hottest Brapanese Invaders
Hideo Muraoka, Fabio Ide, Akihiro Sato. We'll probably forever remember '08 as the year of the Brazilian-Japanese invasion, and these three imports are prime examples of that. Fabio stole our hearts with numerous editorials and TV commercials (we swear, he's the spitting image of Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford), Akihiro made his debut as the latest Penshoppe model, while Hideo snagged a huge endorsement for Folded & Hung. If this is what the future of the modeling industry looks like, we can't wait to see more!
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