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Name:
Ronaldo Fraga
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City/Place:
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
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Country:
Brazil
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Hometown:
Belo Horizonte
Life & Work
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Bio:
Ronaldo Fraga, nascido em Belo Horizonte em 27 de outubro de 1967, é um renomado estilista brasileiro. Além de ser o criador da sua própria marca, ele se dedica a projetos de aculturação de design e geração de renda em diversas regiões do Brasil.
Formado em design de moda pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) e pós-graduado pela Parsons School of Design de Nova York e pela Central Saint Martins de Londres, Fraga expande sua criatividade além das fronteiras nacionais. Suas criações têm alcançado destaque em países como Japão, Holanda, Espanha, Uruguai, Bélgica, Chile, Argentina, México e Angola. Em 2014, representou o Brasil na Lineapelle, a maior feira de couro do mundo, exibindo o processo de pesquisa e desenvolvimento da coleção Carne Seca para o inverno de 2014.
O reconhecimento internacional de Ronaldo Fraga inclui a seleção pelo Design Museum de Londres como um dos sete estilistas mais inovadores do mundo em 2010 e 2014, ao lado de nomes como Miuccia Prada, Rick Owens e Raf Simons.
Além de seu trabalho na moda, Fraga deixou sua marca no teatro, colaborando com o diretor Felipe Vidal na criação de figurinos para espetáculos como "Louise Valentina" e "Depois da Queda" de Arthur Miller. Também foi responsável pelos cenários e figurinos da peça "Fonchito e a Lua", uma adaptação teatral do livro do escritor peruano Mario Vargas Llosa. Em 2018, recebeu o prêmio Shell por melhor figurino na peça "A Visita da Velha Senhora".
Na área da dança, assinou figurinos para produções como "Santagustin" do Grupo Corpo, "Por Parte do Pai" de Nathália Marçal, e "Passanoite" da São Paulo Companhia de Dança.
Como autor, Ronaldo Fraga escreveu os livros "Moda, Roupa e Tempo: Drummond selecionado e ilustrado por Ronaldo Fraga" e "Caderno de Roupas, Memórias e Croquis". Ele também ilustrou diversos livros, incluindo "Mary Poppins" e "Uma Festa de Cores: Memórias de um Tecido Brasileiro".
Sua marca, licenciada em mais de mil produtos no Brasil, colabora com empresas como O Boticário, Tok&Stok, Malwee, L'Occitane e Chilli Beans, destacando-se como um dos poucos designers que buscam integrar o "Brasil feito à mão" ao Brasil industrial. Em 2017, inaugurou o revolucionário Grande Hotel Ronaldo Fraga em Belo Horizonte, marcando uma inovação no varejo de moda no Brasil.
Ronaldo Fraga, como pioneiro na moda brasileira, recebeu a Medalha da Ordem do Mérito Cultural em 2007, concedida pelo ministro da cultura Gilberto Gil. Em 2009, foi agraciado com a Medalha da Inconfidência pelo governo de Minas Gerais.
Em seus desfiles, Fraga destaca-se por privilegiar histórias vinculadas à identidade cultural brasileira e personalidades nacionais de destaque. Suas coleções foram inspiradas em figuras como Arthur Bispo do Rosário, Zuzu Angel, Guimarães Rosa, Mário de Andrade, Drummond de Andrade, Athos Bulcão, Cândido Portinari, Lupicínio Rodrigues, Noel Rosa e Nara Leão.
Além disso, o estilista expressa um especial interesse nas diversas regiões do Brasil, evidenciado em desfiles como "Costela de Adão" (2003), inspirado no Vale do Jequitinhonha, e "Rio São" (2008), inspirado no Rio São Francisco. Em 2012, a Amazônia foi a inspiração para o desfile "Turista Aprendiz na Terra do Grão-Pará", dedicado ao Estado do Pará, enquanto o semiárido foi lembrado na coleção "Carne Seca" (2013). O trabalho de Fraga é reconhecido por aproximar o público de diversas expressões culturais brasileiras, tornando-se um ponto significativo em meio às referências distantes presentes na moda brasileira.
English:
Ronaldo Fraga, born in Belo Horizonte on October 27, 1967, is a renowned Brazilian fashion designer. In addition to his own brand, he is dedicated to projects of design acculturation and income generation throughout Brazil.
Graduated in fashion design from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and postgraduate from the Parsons School of Design in New York and Central Saint Martins in London, Fraga extends his creativity beyond national borders. His creations have gained prominence in countries such as Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Uruguay, Belgium, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, and Angola. In 2014, he represented Brazil at Lineapelle, the world's largest leather fair, showcasing the research and development process of the Carne Seca collection for the winter of 2014.
Ronaldo Fraga's international recognition includes being selected by the Design Museum in London as one of the seven most innovative designers in the world in 2010 and 2014, alongside names like Miuccia Prada, Rick Owens, and Raf Simons.
In addition to his work in fashion, Fraga has left his mark in the theater, collaborating with director Felipe Vidal in creating costumes for plays such as "Louise Valentina" and "Depois da Queda" by Arthur Miller. He also designed the sets and costumes for the play "Fonchito e a Lua," a theatrical adaptation of the book by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. In 2018, he received the Shell Award for Best Costume in the play "A Visita da Velha Senhora."
In the field of dance, he designed costumes for productions such as "Santagustin" by Grupo Corpo, "Por Parte do Pai" by Nathália Marçal, and "Passanoite" by São Paulo Companhia de Dança.
As an author, Ronaldo Fraga wrote the books "Moda, Roupa e Tempo: Drummond selecionado e ilustrado por Ronaldo Fraga" and "Caderno de Roupas, Memórias e Croquis." He also illustrated several books, including "Mary Poppins" and "Uma Festa de Cores: Memórias de um Tecido Brasileiro."
His brand, licensed in over a thousand products in Brazil, collaborates with companies such as O Boticário, Tok&Stok, Malwee, L'Occitane, and Chilli Beans, standing out as one of the few designers seeking to integrate "handmade Brazil" with industrial Brazil. In 2017, he inaugurated the revolutionary Grande Hotel Ronaldo Fraga in Belo Horizonte, marking an innovation in the fashion retail industry in Brazil.
Ronaldo Fraga, as a pioneer in Brazilian fashion, received the Medal of the Order of Cultural Merit in 2007, granted by the Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil. In 2009, he was awarded the Medal of Inconfidência by the government of Minas Gerais.
In his fashion shows, Fraga stands out for privileging stories linked to Brazilian cultural identity and notable national personalities. His collections were inspired by figures such as Arthur Bispo do Rosário, Zuzu Angel, Guimarães Rosa, Mário de Andrade, Drummond de Andrade, Athos Bulcão, Cândido Portinari, Lupicínio Rodrigues, Noel Rosa, and Nara Leão.
Furthermore, the designer expresses a special interest in the different regions of Brazil, evident in fashion shows like "Costela de Adão" (2003), inspired by the daily life of the Vale do Jequitinhonha and the artisans who shape clay dolls, typical creations and a source of income for the region. In 2008, he presented the "Rio São" collection, inspired by the Rio São Francisco, a place he had often heard about from his father. In 2010, he returned to the theme, this time with an exhibition titled "Rio São Francisco Navegado por Ronaldo Fraga," which toured different Brazilian capitals such as Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Recife, and Belo Horizonte. In the city of Belo Horizonte, the exhibition attracted more than 40,000 visitors in two months, including at least 18,000 students from public schools.
The Amazon was part of the inspiration for the "Turista Aprendiz na Terra do Grão-Pará" fashion show in 2012, dedicated to the state of Pará, and the semi-arid region was remembered in the "Carne Seca" collection in 2013. "Fraga was the one who brought the public closer to fashion designer Zuzu Angel, painter Athos Bulcão, the parties, and the popular poets of Brazil. In a field full of references to distant cultures and styles, as is the case with Brazilian fashion, this is quite significant."
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Conceived under a Spiritus Mundi ranging from the quilombos and senzalas of Cachoeira and Santo Amaro to Havana and the provinces of Cuba to the wards of New Orleans to the South Side of Chicago to the sidewalks of Harlem to the townships of South Africa to the villages of Ireland to the Roma camps of France and Belgium to the Vienna of Beethoven to the shtetls of Eastern Europe...*
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*...in conversation with Raymundo Sodré, who summed up the irony in this sequence by opining for the ages: "Where there's misery, there's music!" Hence A Massa, anthem for the trod-upon folk of Brazil, which blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south until Sodré was silenced, threatened with death and forced into exile...
And hence a platform whereupon all creators tend to accessible proximity to all other creators, irrespective of degree of fame, location, or the censor.
Matrix Ground Zero is the Recôncavo, bewitching and bewitched, contouring the resplendent Bay of All Saints (end of clip below, before credits), absolute center of terrestrial gravity for the disembarkation of enslaved human beings (and for the sublimity these people created), the bay presided over by Brazil's ineffable Black Rome (seat of the Integrated Global Creative Economy* and where Bule Bule is seated below, around the corner from where we built this matrix as an extension of our record shop).
Assis Valente's (of Santo Amaro, Bahia) "Brasil Pandeiro" filmed by Betão Aguiar
Betão Aguiar
("Black Rome" is an appellation per Caetano, via Mãe Aninha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá.)
*Darius Mans holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, and lives between Washington D.C. and Salvador da Bahia.
Between 2000 and 2004 he served as the World Bank’s Country Director for Mozambique and Angola. In that capacity, Darius led a team which generated $150 million in annual lending to Mozambique, including support for public private partnerships in infrastructure which catalyzed over $1 billion in private investment.
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Replete with Brazilian greatness, but we listened to Miles Davis and Jimmy Cliff in there too; visitors are David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR/WXPN
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
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