To celebrate their 25th birthday, Melissa approached Brazilian design duo Fernando and Humberto Campana to create a new range of shoes and bags in their signature style.
The Campana Brothers have become international stars in recent years thanks to their exuberant furniture designs, such as the Favela chair (see page 142). These are inspired by the spontaneous creativity of the Brazilian people and employ unlikely materials, such as hosepipes, children’s cuddly toys and scraps of fabric and wood.
For their Melissa range, the brothers revisited a technique of weaving pliable, off-the-shelf materials, such as plastic tubing or nylon string, randomly back and forth across a frame. This was an idea that was inspired by the sight of tangled hoses lying in the gardens of suburban São Paolo.