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Brazilian designer, Clarissa Cardoso Santos has a BFA in Fashion Design from the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and an MFA in Fibers from the Savannah School of Art and Design (SCAD), in the USA, as a fully funded scholarship recipient in the Brazilian Scientific Mobility Program (BSMP).
Clarissa has worked for several Brazilian fashion brands such as Reinaldo Lourenço, Blue Gardenia, C&A, Hering, Fila, Fazendo Onda, among others. She worked as a trend researcher at the Brazilian Association of Fashion Designers (ABEST) and since 2013, she has been working for Tendere. She interned for WOVNS in 2015, a platform for custom woven textiles.
Clarissa is also responsible for a curator’s blog called Cool and Cheap that was featured as one of the best fashion curator’s blog at WhoWhatWear website and has pinterest account with 177,000 followers.
As a surface designer she explores different subjects, through materiality, haptic textures and collage techniques. Ultimately, her goal is to touch through beauty, giving the audience a great sense of aesthetic enjoyment, transporting them to a blissful state.
Her practice of experimentation is crucial. Creating patterns by playing with sensuous materials, amalgamating geometric man-made structures with organic silhouettes, and overlapping different textures are important features in her work. Varied textile processes, such as laser cutting, engraving, and others, are techniques employed by the designer.