100 Years of Brazilian Beauty with Cintia Dicker [Video]
What is Brazil’s most famous export? In the 2000s, the answer just might be bombshell supermodels like Gisele Bündchen and Adriana Lima. So, for Cut.com’s Brazil installment of the viral “100 Years of Beauty” series, it only made sense that the production company used real-life Brazilian model Cintia Dicker of The Society Management, who has appeared on the covers of Vogue Brazil and French Elle, as the model.
As noted by Cut.com, the biggest country in South America is also famous for a “tumultuous and dynamic commodity export history.” Those material and cultural exports have, by proxy, registered new beauty trends. This video investigates how, in Brazil, white women’s beauty culture has evolved alongside these exports over the past century: coffee, fruit, ideas, music, and finally, female beauty itself (the Brazilian supermodel), at the height of globalization. Dicker herself, is Brazilian by nationality and German in descent. (Germans are the fifth largest nationality to immigrant to Brazil in the 1800s, after Portuguese, the Italians, the Spaniards, and the Japanese.)
If you haven’t seen the previous videos in the international series, catch up here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
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