Alexandre Birman’s Spring Summer 2023 Collection Dives Deep Into Brazilian Craft

Arezzo & Co. may be in a mindset of global expansion. But when it comes to its luxury footwear label Alexandre Birman, it’s all about back home in Brazil. So it proved with its latest collection for spring summer ’23, which the brand and Arezzo CEO and namesake designer Alexandre Birman recently showed at Paris Fashion Week. Using the small fishing village of Itapua (and the northeast state of Bahia it is located in) as both inspiration and source of craft, the brand tapped a group of women artisans there to create a series of handwoven details on footwear for a collection that showcases the best of Brazilian artistry and techniques that are at risk of the type of intergenerational extinction seen in handmade craft. “We wanted to find an institution that was needing this visibility,” said Guilherme Cury, global head designer at Alexandre Birman. “The artisans work according to the tide, in the morning they gather shellfish and then in the afternoon they get together to do the lace work.” Cury and the Birman design team worked with an octogenarian craftswoman named Maria and her group of artisans to create a series of styles that highlight different handmade textile work. A significant portion

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