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Patrícia Sousa

/ Baixa do Porto

Design / Design
Textile / Têxtil
Catarina Santos Cunha
With a creative spirit and a childhood marked by manual practices, Patrícia Sousa left her career as an economist to dedicate herself to her personal fulfillment in the artistic field. Without a defined plan she changed her life, and dedicated to the hotel industry, where she applied her patchwork and crochet skills to decoration, creating 100% manual and unique clothing and decoration pieces. It’s in between workshops and her multi-brand store, Earlymade, that she lives the transition from her economist career to be a self- employed businesswomna. But it is in this challenge that she finds her personal fulfillment in artistic expression.

Com um espírito criativo e uma infância marcada por práticas manuais, Patrícia Sousa deixou a carreira de economista para se dedicar à sua realização pessoal na área artística. Mudou de vida, sem plano definido e dedicou-se à hotelaria, onde aplicou as suas habilidades em patchwork e crochet na decoração, criando peças de vestuário e decoração 100% manuais e únicas. Entre os workshops e a sua loja multimarca, a Earlymade, vive a transição de vida de economista para empresária em nome próprio, um enorme desafio. Mas é nesse desafio que encontra a sua realização pessoal na expressão artística..

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