Our new song!

a-l-i-v-e!

I'm dead. BUT HAPPY!!! :)
Last month was really very chaotic.
There was the japanese presentation of my new knitwear products and also some other work situations to deal with. Still, there are a lot of work to be done and I am very glad about it anyways because I love my life and work.. As you all can see, these pics are from the new products ! There will be more stuff soon, the japanese collection will have new items and also the brazilian/european collection too.. so let's all stay tuned!

New portfolio, band video, Phd,Düsseldorf and Mr. White

First of all, and thanks to the universe, I'm very active as person and professional. And it's not connected to the feeling of never being satisfied, is more connected to the feeling "I can do and i feel good doing it!" I can't see myself living in a world that I can't have fun with all the projects I'm involved. I'm very glad for everything I'm involved and working on. I'm a little bit unstoppable and I'm very glad to find people around me that it's the same. We're always having tons of ideas.
So, since there will be new and good news coming soon concerning my fashion knitwear label, I updated and created a new portfolio where you can glance some stuff I've been doing in the last years: mariecastroknitwear.tumblr.com

That's Isa (she was my fashion pupil some years ago, and also, very pretty!) modeling with the turbant.

As I was talking about the projects, there's also the band. We recorded some live sessions in the HoBo Studios (For those who does not know, Rabbit owns a studio now with another producer and works in several projects of music production). And also we have a new song that it's finished and we will release soon. To explain a little bit how the band works (because I got a call from a knitter asking if I will stop my designer carrier forever and so on --- I WON'T!!! hahaha), here we go... But first, let's watch our video:

The band is a project we do for fun, and pleasure to play music. As Rabbit said in the Radio Fritz's interview, this project is based in doing music with our fists and hearts --- and not putting too much thinking behind it(or judgments). It's a band where we have fun playing our indie-crazy-rock-funny music...Playing honest music that we would like to hear. Everything is done with love and we are very glad that this is touching all the people that believe in our music. It makes us very happy that we get more 10 000 plays in our single "Home", and this invitation we got to play in a live session in the radio, and etc-etc-etc, but we are not working 100% of our time in the band, we LOVE playing together but we also have our other projects concerning design, business and music. So we won't stop anything we do, we are just doing now everything at the same time and having our fun with that. The band got a very big and importance significance in our lives and we take time to that. If you like it, share with your friends and everyone you know (we are personally very glad with people that are supporting us and also if you guys are doing some artistic project please let me know and I can help to promote it on my twitter).  If you don't like it (and plus don't like indie music, thinking we should sing like Whitney Houston or something.. hahaha), simply don't listen to our music and try to find something that you enjoy. It's simple like that. And we all can have fun :)

My brother just concluded his Phd in São Paulo. I was not able to be there to support him, but I'm always sending my energies, does not matter where I am. For those who does not know, I have a very applied older brother. He works as lawyer and loves academic life, I'm very proud of him. We both share some passions for music, language and traveling (he traveled even more than me)... Well, as I said, I'm very glad that in my life I'm always around very interesting people with interesting lives.

Well-well, I just came back from Düsseldorf, and it's unbelievable the quantity of fashion high end shops there.I surely want to start to sell my new collections there.  The whole trip was actually a matter of family matters, I trained a little bit of german, we ate awesome japanese food and warm weather really got us.

Maki and sushi being prepared by a real japanese woman in our family

How are you people surviving in this new Breaking Bad's season? I don't want to throw some spoilers for those who are not watching now, but Breaking Bad is basically my religion and I'm totally tense to see how it is gonna end. Mr. White is getting creepy and Jesse is awesome as always.

YEAH BITCH, MAGNETS!

That's all for now, I need to prepare dinner for tonight and relax a little bit... It's sunday!
I'm happy I'm managing to come here more often. I hope you are enjoying it :)

Kisses,
Marie

Radio, drums and knitting

Hi readers,
It's been more than a month that I don't write here. I feel a little bit guilty to not being able to come sooner to tell you guys the news but at same time I fully understand it was basically impossible in the last days.
For those who knows the basics about my life, the biggest deal in the moment is that: my home and heart is based in Germany, but I'm very often going back to Brazil to work and see my family. It can be very exciting from the outside, but from the inside, it really can create some lack of time to come here, sit down, and...write (even more difficult when you need to organize furniture and details in the new flat)! There are so many things going on, projects, work, blablabla...

We were some weeks ago in Berlin, at Radio Rbb Fritz, to play a live session and give an interview to Christoph Schrag, the very cool and sympathetic host of Fritz's "Unsigned". For those who have no idea, I am part of a rock band, that it's actually a rock duo, with my life partner and very talented musician/producer, the Rabbit. Together we are "Rabbit and the Snake" and you can check us rocking out the Radio Fritz studios here:

It was our first time with this project playing in a live session. The results were pretty good and we totally enjoyed  it. Now we are at studio again, recording new sounds, recording some of our live sessions and also I am learning how to play drums (and hurting my hand in the process hahaha).

While my new collection is not public yet, check it out this new turbant for the winter japanese collection. It arrived in Japan in the last days:

Movimento Hotspot and the band

Well, last week I was invited by Movimento Hotspot (event for creators in many different areas such as Fashion, illustration, photography, music, graphic design etc) to participate in the festival. It was held in Belo Horizonte (state of Minas Gerais). I've met so many creative people, had fun in a funk party under a brigde(!) and also had one of the weirdest flights of my whole life.
It's always good to be into a creative mood and meet other creators. Even though people cannot bring magical solutions to ours doubts in the creative process, just having conversations around really helped me a lot to decide important questions around my fashion work. It was great, I'm glad that I got to know so many people and was able to be there in the festival, that of course, was amazing. I was very proud of my work in the exhibition, people were coming to talk and give their feedback, and mostly, they were amazed by my work, so I am so happy that it touches people somehow. I would like to thank everyone that was there and also my curators Paulo Martinez(ffw magazine) and Suzana Barbosa (Elle Brazil). It was a "positive" vote to my work and the experience was just incredible! And of course,i could walk around Belo Horizonte a little bit and enjoy the city's vibe, eat the local candies and die of too much sugar in my blood (or not hahaha) :D

*having fun with creative people! 

This was basically what was happening in the last days. I'm also finishing a collection, it will take more time than I planned in the first time, but everything is gonna be worth! Since I'm a constant traveler, I'm bringing my stuff there and here to work, which is a very positive thing about my collections: I can create the prototypes from all the places since it's basically handmade work.

I also have my rock duo with the Rabbit (be-parallel.com). We were recording some songs in the studio, we uploaded them at Radio rbb fritz website and we have now more than 15 000 views in our songs. Crazy and amazing, right? It was totally made with our hearts, we just wanted to sit down and play rock music. There were no intention behind that and now we get such positive feedback --- We are gonna play a live gig in Radio Fritz!!! So, listen to Rabbit and the Snake live on 18.8, 18:00-20:00 in a live radio session on Radio Fritz RBB (online stream also available). Don't forget that ;)

*Guitar recording session