Faces of Luxury: Rapha Mendonça

cleo farias e raphael mendonca 1024x682 Faces of Luxury: Rapha Mendonça“The dress must follow the body shape of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress” once said Hubert de Givenchy. It is surely hard to tell whether a certain outfit is appropriate for a person or not, when we are talking about regular people, choosing what to wear to go to work or to a cocktail can already bedifficult, now imagine how complex it is to choose what a star should wear, people on which anything looks fantastic, it takes a clever experienced eye of remarkable taste to make such choices, one of the professionals whose eyes are trainned to spot the best is Brazilian style consultant Raphael Mendonça.

It is needed to recognize who are the people that shape the faces of current high end society, the trend setters, the ones responsible for creating a privileged reality.

Raphael Mendonça is a Brazilian born professional that specialized in tayloring people’s existence, an absolut success in New York and the center of attention anywhere he goes, Rapha, as closer friends call him, is able to enlight someone with a simple touch of style, bringing life to any party or social situation with a few magic words and looks.

Being trusted by several USA stars, as well as a favorite of Brazilian top designers such as Fafa Oliveira and so on, people he keeps as friends and allies, Rapha has been dressing up and improving the famous faces from Amanda Setton (from Gossip Girl) to Caroline Corrêa, the current “it” model from Brazil that has been reaching impressive levels of fame and experience, currently living in Los Angeles and, of course, in touch with Rapha, who is always capable of bringing up the best of everyone in particularly thought events, dresses and anything else you can or can’t imagine because this consultant definitely works magic when it comes to turning conservative glamour into absolut perceptive luxury, this way the beliefs of tradition like Givenchy’s are fought for, creating the tuned up match of the perfect dress for the perfect person, thanks to names like Rapha Mendonça.

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About Rodolfo Kachan

Rodolfo Kachan is a writer, trader and traveler, going around seeking to put life in perspective by the savoring of exotic tourism experiences, says "after long years on the road whenever I fly back to Brazil I think to myself how the world became my home and like home seems like vacation", true story.

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