São Paulo Fashion Week (SPFW), the top such event in Latin America, kicked off on Monday to showcase designs of its 2013 winter collection.
The show, featuring 20 Brazilian designers, is being held at a new venue, Villa Lobos Park.
"Brazilian fashion continues to show a fresher outlook, a lighter way of seeing things, and this has something to do with our DNA," said SPFW's creative director Paulo Borges.
"It has something to do with colours, transparency, lightness and joy. ... There is much talk of happiness and I strongly believe in this. It is a trend."
The Osklen label will start the show with a presentation hosted by a leading art gallery. Ronaldo Fraga, Tufi Duek, Ellus, Joao Pimenta, Colcci, Alexandre Herchcovitch, Forum and Reinaldo Lourenço will follow.
"The Brazilian fashion industry is young. The Brazilian economy is young and only recently found a way of establishing a world presence," Borges said, noting that 95 per cent of the country's fashion output was for domestic consumption. - AFP
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Sinopharm vaccine explained
The Sinopharm vaccine was created using techniques that have been around for decades.
“This is an inactivated vaccine. Simply what it means is that the virus is taken, cultured and inactivated," said Dr Nawal Al Kaabi, chair of the UAE's National Covid-19 Clinical Management Committee.
"What is left is a skeleton of the virus so it looks like a virus, but it is not live."
This is then injected into the body.
"The body will recognise it and form antibodies but because it is inactive, we will need more than one dose. The body will not develop immunity with one dose," she said.
"You have to be exposed more than one time to what we call the antigen."
The vaccine should offer protection for at least months, but no one knows how long beyond that.
Dr Al Kaabi said early vaccine volunteers in China were given shots last spring and still have antibodies today.
“Since it is inactivated, it will not last forever," she said.
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