Living Clothes: Sustainable Design and Botanical Dyeing

Flavia Aranha is a renowned fashion designer specializing in natural dyes. Born in Campinas, Brazil, she graduated in fashion at Santa Marcelino and since then has focused her career in the studio of natural dyes, craftsmanship and sustainability.

Flavia is the creative director of her homonymous brand, Flavia Aranha, which she founded in 2009. She currently has three stores in Brazil and distribution points in Europe. In addition to her work as a designer, Flavia also teaches classes and workshops in different courses.

His passion for manual work, the ethnobotanical perspective and his connection with the women who keep the knowledge of plants and their processing are fundamental pillars in his work. Flavia seeks to integrate knowledge, connect science with popular wisdom and demonstrate that there is no separation between human beings and nature. Through its work, it seeks to create more positive processes for the environment and offer new opportunities for the fashion industry.