Nostalgia ~ by the water
Dear people, welcome to the first drop of our spring/summer collection, Nostalgia ~ growing up by the water.
Water ~ my element, my favourite thing in the world, I had to make a collection about it!!
It all started in a primary school gathering dinner last December, where I met my old primary school friends, we talked and talked, and two of them asked me: ‘‘well, when you need inspiration for Paparina, where do you go, what do you do?’’ And my answer was: I swim, I go to the sea. Raised in a city by the water, how could I have a different feeling? I’ve always lived about 10 to 15 minutes close to the sea, and I’ve swam since I was 3 years old. On the top of that, my zodiac sign is also pisces. Of corse water had to be my element and my main inspiration.
So how do I make a cool collection about water? We needed a representation of my zodiac sign, and with a trip to Japan happening this year, it had to be Koi fishes, right? Then I chose my husband’s and a lot of my dear friends zodiac sign, Chloé, Rita, this one is about you!! And I just had to make a cancer look fun, so here’s a crab with the best lilac and green summer stripes.
Started to swim again last November, so a pool inspired print should be cool, and I made the pool tiles print. After all of that to just unify the all thing and because the main theme is nostalgia, we brought back our boogie in a new fresher and softer fabric.
I hope this drop just makes you feel happy, hope you wear these pieces and feel inspired by my favourite element, hope you seek the sun and the beach, hope you walk, dance and live in my new collection, ‘cause it was made for sun seekers.
Thank you for selling out this collection at Spring Market Stylista, I cried happy tears because of you.
X X
Carina
Prince of Hearts
|Once upon a Time
A girl who believed in fairytales
Stole the heart of a Prince
Who had sworn to never love|
‘‘ ‘‘It’s all right’’, he rasped. ‘‘I’ve got you. Just stay with me, Little Fox.’’ ‘‘
Dear people, welcome to the last drop that comes directly out of my fantasy books - Once Upon a Broken Heart series, by Stephanie Garber..
I read these series in November, and it was love at first reading, I decided right away this would be my Valentines collection.
I tried to bring the world of this book to this collection because Jacks aka Prince of Hearts is my favourite villain of all times and I just thought that maybe I could represent this amazing universe with my Paparina. You have it all, Little Fox print was my absolute favourite because it represents the story of The Archer and the Fox and Evangeline, you have lots of pink and red too - the diamond print just because Jacks is the prince of hearts and one of the fates, and the small heart inside a star, because he didn’t think he could actually love, and after all, he falls madly in love with Evangeline.
You have lot’s of bows and puffy sleeves too because of the book’s universe, and after all, this was one of my favourite collections ever, because these were too one of my favourite book series ever.
I hope this drop makes you feel super very special and loved, and I hope you find love - self love, friendship love, family love, or your soulmates’ love, any kind of love through the year of 2025 - because you deserve to love and to be loved.
Thank you my dear friend Cremilde, for making my jewellery dream come true in this collection.
X X
Carina
Paparina for KIDS
|All you need is Faith, Trust and a little Pixie Dust.| - Peter Pan
What can I say about this small capsule? I have a lot on my mind to share with you but don’t know where to start.
As you all may have already read, I grew up with my grandma, and she made me believe I could be any hero, any villain, any princess or prince, any character I ever chose. She used to make me bed sheet castles and tell me the most amazing stories that came directly from inside her head.
Through the years I have had a lot of requests for kids clothing, but never really wanted to give it a try, maybe because, contrary from what people usually thing, children’s clothing is much more difficult to sew than adults. But after the huge success that our monkeys, unicorns, whales and rabbits made with our own leftovers from our own production, and after so many requests from my own customers we decided to make this small capsule.
As a 31 year old without any children - this journey has been hard on me and don’t feel really well to talk about this yet - I only knew what I, as a child, really wanted, and being the eldest in my family, what my brother and cousins really had needed while growing up: super comfy, super easy clothing - something your kid can wear to run, climb trees, jump and dance and don’t ever feel uncomfortable doing it.
After all, this has always been the goal of Paparina - to be free, to feel comfy, to dance, to go out of the house, to stay at your home, to run on a beach, to jump, to swim, to do all this thinks as freely and comfy as you can.
So here is the smallest capsule with my friend’s daughter’s favourite pieces and all my childhood favourite pieces. They were tested and I can guarantee they don’t scratch!
Hope you like our Sofia, the most out of the box child I’ve ever met, I love her, she was all I ever needed to be the face of my own Kids collection.
XX Carina
Cremilde Bispo x Paparina
|Friends are the sisters and brothers we never had, and are by our side through life's ups and downs.|
‘‘A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself’’
You can definitely read my friend’s Cremilde version of this story in her own page https://www.cremildebispo.com/ and I assure you she tells this story better than I do.
What can I say about my Cremilde? We were online friends until one day she just put herself on a train and came to meet me in person, and we’ve been inseparable since the first day we met in person.
I’ve always had this curiosity for jewellery and jewellery makers, I find them so fascinating, and there was one day that Cremilde just shot this idea ‘‘why don’t we make a collab capsule’’, of course I got immediately overly excited, this was one of my dreams, to have matching jewellery with my colourful pieces and super extra prints.
We started to work on this capsule right away, Cremilde started to look for amazing inspirations and we found out that we both had a soft spot for stars. So the Flaming Star was born, and of course, genius and magical as she is, she made my dream Jewells come true.
Beautiful as this story may seam, it was already November 2024 and we had the idea of launching in time for Christmas, and suppliers delays happen, so we had to postpone this collection to launch with my Prince of Hearts. And I think the universe was just right, because this was a match made in heaven and it became the most beautiful collab I have ever made in the 6 years of Paparina.
Dear Cremilde, I feel like I’ve known you for all my life. You're the one who makes me laugh until I cry, who listens without judgment, and who always knows how to make a bad day better. I'm so grateful for your friendship and for all the joy you bring into my life. Thank you for making this dream come true, you’re magical and I love you.
You can find this amazing capsule on Cremilde’s website, it’s a super exclusive and limited edition collection, so hurry up before they’re gone!
Paparina x Boogie Bag
|The boogiest collab of this Holiday Season |
“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden” - unknown
“ There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met” - Jim Henson
I met Rui - Boogie Bag’s owner during September’s last Cidade do Zero, and it feels like we’ve been friends since forever.
We couldn’t believe we actually had the same taste in colors, prints and even 70’s songs, we became friends right away.
So this collab had to come for our favourite season, the party season. After a few meetings we decided to make his best seller bags in my shiny fabrics and feathers, and we are just so proud of the result. Each bag is made from 2 to 3 units, so this is a very special and limited edition collab.
In the end Rui became the older brother I never had.
Hope you really love this collab, cause it’s made of friendship and love.
XX
Ana
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