X-posted in SN Angels | No Wings We found this 2004 Ana Beatriz Barros S/S 2004 Forum editorial ‘Dona Flore e Seus Dois Maridos’, honoring Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado, who wrote the novel in 1966. This famous Brazilian novelist was in one political scrape after another, according to Wiki.

His second creative phase began in 1958 with Gabriela, Cravo e Canela, which was described by Jean-Paul Sartre as “the best example of a folk novel”. Amado abandoned, in part, the realism and the social themes of his early works, producing a series of novels focusing mainly on feminine characters, devoted to a kind of smiling celebration of the traditions and the beauties of Bahia. His depiction of the sexual customs of his land was scandalous to much of 1950s Brazilian society and for several years Amado could not even enter Ilhéus, where the novel was set, due to threats received for the alleged offense to the morality of the city’s women.

As you might expect, Anne is now totally immersed in reading about sexual customs in Bahia, and how Brazil will influence sensuality in fashion as it assumes its position as a global power with one of the hottest economies on the planet.

Brazil has a new woman in charge of the country, President Dilma Rousseff, and 70-year-old Vice President Michel Temer is married to a 27-year-old former beauty queen Marcela Temer. Viva Brazil! (Note: original movie trailer for ‘Dona Flore e Seus Dois Maridos’ at end of images.)