Harry Brantly, CEO & Co-Founder at FRESCOBOL CARIOCA.  Harry Moves Freely in cotton-stretch Emilio & Rocha set, paired with Marina deck shoes.  Describe your London day in three stops? 1. After the school drop off, I make the most of being in the area and do a loop of Hampstead Heath with my Jack Russell Terrier, Zumi. 2. Cycle into the office in Notting Hill (I personally much prefer being in the office than working from home). 3. Evening slots at Absolute Studios Pilates in...

Thiago Soares, Brazilian dancer and former Royal Ballet principal. *This interview was conducted in “Portunglês”, a mix of Brazilian Portuguese and English, and has therefore been translated across parts.  For those who don’t know you, how would you introduce yourself and what you do? My name is Thiago Soares. I’m from Rio de Janeiro; I’m a dancer and a choreographer. I’ve been an artist since I was 14 years old, when I joined a dance group in my neighbourhood. Since then, that’s what I’ve...

In celebration of our collaboration, FRESCOBOL CARIOCA and La Marzocco have teamed up to take the Cafezinho Carioca experience on tour, bringing together Brazilian leisure culture and Italian espresso heritage, we invite guests around the world to pause and connect over coffee, conversation and aperitivo. At Palazzo Pitti in Florence, the epicentre of menswear and hometown of La Marzocco, the cafezinho came to life during the Pitti Uomo festival with Cafezinho Carioca; an immersive coffee shop inspired by the Brazilian ritual of the...

According to Harry Brantly, co-founder of FRESCOBOL CARIOCASummering in the Cidade Maravilhosa is an art; we asked the founder of the brand wholly inspired by the Carioca way of life how he chooses to practice it. 

In Rio de Janeiro, mornings are measured in sunlight, rhythm, and the quiet pleasure of a shared coffee.

Why coffee evolved from a daily commodity into one of luxury’s most powerful cultural touchpoints.

We sit down for a coffee with the Founder of Café Nice – a mobile specialty café experience – for a conversation on daily rituals and creating spaces for connection.

Discover how the icon of the most famous beach in the world came to be.

For our Pre-Spring 26 collection, we journey back to our Origens. Stepping back in time to Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s where the rise of modernism began to define the landscape of the ‘Cidade Maravilhosa’ as we know it today. Simultaneously with the inception of the game of frescobol, the career of Oscar Niemeyer, one of Brazil’s most impactful architects, had begun. Born in 1907 in Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro, Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho was brought up amongst the...

While Bossa Nova flourished alongside Rio’s beachfronts, a fresh cinematic movement began to evolve further into the city. With nothing but “a camera in their hand and an idea in their head” (Glauber Rocha), the Cinema Novo subculture created some of the most innovative film masterpieces of the past century. Contemporary with our post-modern art-deco heritage, we embark on an archeological expedition of one of Brazil’s most important and influential movements. Much of its poetic power is derived from Cinema Novo’s historical context....