Rafael Silvério é fundador, CEO e CCO da Silvério desde 2024. A marca que carrega seu sobrenome ficou conhecida principalmente pelas construções impecáveis na alfaiataria contemporânea e um discurso que transmite a verdade que um designer negro enfrenta na indústria da moda.
With an inspiring trajectory, the young designer and entrepreneur has worked as a teacher at Senac Lapa Faustolo for 8 months, and continues to share knowledge wherever he goes.
We spoke with Rafael Silvério to understand a little more about his creative process, development, and his brand's relationship with new technologies.
Follow the full interview below.
What was the initial reason for creating the brand? What made you want to develop something that would transform the way people consume fashion?
Silvério was born after being admitted to a psychiatric clinic as a result of the various anxiety attacks I experienced while seeking placement on the market after completing college in 2013.
I never intended to use fashion as a tool for transformation but for expression, I would like to create an environment where rejected people, like me, could have a safe place to be whoever they wanted.
It is still far from the ideal that I set as a goal, but I believe that little by little we are expanding the dialogues of race, class, and gender without opposing or superimposing the issues in their distinctions, and consequently the more I groped the issues in the dark the more I was able to devise infiltration strategies for other narratives
What are the main technological challenges that Silvério has faced since its creation?
When we talk about technology, it is precisely being able to disseminate tailoring cutting techniques with a mix of biased cutting, this way of making the pieces, and disseminating these atelier techniques in clothing on a large scale never made sense, so we had to adapt our production cycle and navigate new markets that would be able to value both our manufacturing process and the human process in which we are so dedicated to these formats, Silvério likes to tell stories in depth and this is our greatest ancient technology.
How do you see the relationship between a Latin American aesthetic construction within your brand and what are Silvério's objectives for this year? What impact would you like to achieve?
Silvério celebrates 10 years, in addition to the entry of two new partners - Jessyca Faria -CCO and João Massud (Sud) as CRO, it is a moment to look at our built legacy and understand how to adjust our vision of the future. We are making efforts to launch a line of ceremonial costumes focused on the LGBTQIAPN+ community and allies called Celebration. The Sublime collection is the first demonstration of how this line permeates the everyday clothing that we have already worked on and are recognized for. Enter this ceremonial market in order to discuss other formats of the institution of marriage and to serve a market that has been heating up after recent years. We will discuss the love for the poetics of the city, and the altar for the urban perspective, we will not stop making everyday clothes, but I am excited to show this other facet, after all everyone should have the guaranteed right to express and live their loves without hiding, we want to open a dialogue with the community - because when I was born black, I was also born gay.
