Brazil sees a black winter as Sao Paulo Fashion Week starts

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2008

SAO PAULO (AFP) — Brazil's summers may be a carnival riot of color and flimsy attire, but when it comes to winter, or this coming winter at least, Brazilian designers are seeing black.

That staple in women's wardrobes from New York to Paris was out in force on the catwalks in Sao Paulo Wednesday as the city opened its annual Fashion Week -- Latin America's biggest -- with the first of 40 shows that fill out its program.

Designers draped their models in night-black attire, though Brazil's natural sunny exuberance shone through with some outfits in bright primary colors, and short skirts and dresses that exhibited a lot of leg -- winter in Brazil after all is just a short seasonal dip in the tropical temperatures.

Fause Haten, a Brazilian of Lebanese descent...