Twice a week I do some volunteer work teaching English
as a foreign language. One of the places where I teach is a community centre
which has its own Brazilian steak house on the ground floor. The restaurant has a bunch of books about Brazil, include a big coffee table style number full of pictures from all over Brazil. There are lots of the
images that you would expect; rawkus football fans in yellow, blue and green,
tropical Amazonian rainforest and the golden beaches of Rio. However, the
pictures that really caught my eye were the ones of the country’s capital city Brasilia.
Brasilia was largely designed and built in the 50s, and
has that mid-twentieth century vision of ‘the futuristic’ vibe about it. It
reminds me a little of vintage sci-fi films from the 50s and 60s where the
future involved lots and lots of shiny materials and curved lines (see also:
50s kitchens).
I like that way that the white buildings with their convex and concave shapes sit kind of like aliens in the luscious green landscape of the Brazilian sierra. I started thinking about how I could translate this into an outfit. I wanted to mix ‘natural’; flora and fauna prints, greens and relaxed fits, with something probably white, a bit architectural and structured, and with clean lines that are hard to find in nature.
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