Isabela Capeto

Isabela Capeto’s career started 15 years ago when she graduated from the Accademia di Moda in Florence, Italy. Since then she has become increasingly successful and is now recognized as one of the most important Brazilian designers.

Before creating her own designer labe. Isabela spent some time in creative environments of important designer such as Maria Bonita, Maria Bonta Extra and Lenny, as well as having worked with prints in the Bangu factory. In April 2003, she finally inaugurated her own atelier in the charming neighborhood of Gávea in Rio de Janeiro.

Since October 2003, her label has been exhibited every six months in showrooms in Paris organized by the fashion consultant, Robert Forrest.

Depending on which collection, her clothes can be found in around 20 countries, in famous department stores such as Barneys and Jeffrey’s in the USA; Browns in the UK; Colette and le Bon Marche in France; Biffi in Italy; Ekseption in Spain, Barneys and United Arrows in Japan; Sake and Harvey Nichols in the United Arab Emirates; Vila Moda in Kuwait, amongst others.

After making her debut in the Fashion Rio in January 2004, Isabela was invited to be part of the selected team of designers and present her next collection at the Sao Paulo Fashion Week, the most important fashion event in Latin America.

In May 2005, she inaugurated her very first boutique, on Dias Ferreira Street: a small space, located in one of the most charming neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro. Soon after that, in 2006, her studio left Gávea and moved to a larger and more comfortable old house in Humaitá. Nowadays, all the areas, creative, administrative and production, are under the same roof.

In the same year, the label maintained its showroom during the week of the Parisian fashion.

Starting form 2008, the designer’s creativity also becomes accessible to girls between four and ten years old, for whom the ‘carioca’ has launched the “Isabela Capeto kids”.