We really wanted to shoot Alexandre Verga for the first issue of Made In Brazil Magazine, but he was never in Brazil while we were shooting. I am really happy that we got to shoot him playing capoeira at the beach for the second issue. The day we shot him was overcast, windy, and rainy, but Alexandre only had one day in São Paulo, so we made it work. Expect more behind-the-scenes videos of the shoot this week.

Made In Brazil Magazine #2: Sports is available for purchase at madeinbrazilmag.com.

I want to thank all of you who posted a comment at Models.com for a chance to win five copies of the second issue of Made In Brazil Magazine. I read every single comment posted on the preview of the issue, and cannot even begin to tell you how happy all the comments made me.

I posted a list of the winners below. We will be sending out the issues as soon as the winners contact us.

I know we were only supposed to give away five copies of the magazine, but since I cannot resist a quote by Andre Leon Talley, I am going to be making an exception and giving an extra copy to the entry below.

Mauricio, Eduardo, Dylan, Diego, Giovanny Bahamundi, and Nic, please email your complete addresses to [email protected] so that we can have your copies mailed asap.

Made In Brazil Magazine #2 is available for purchase online at madeinbrazilmag.com. Thanks to all of you who already got a copy (or two or three). I particularly think the second issue is a lot better than the first, so I hope you are going to like it too.

While I was at the printing facility working on the second issue of the magazine, I saved a few sheets of paper with two or more prints on top of each other (used to calibrate the machines) to cover the walls at the launch of the magazine. We ended up giving them as posters to some of the guests since each one is unique and offers a different preview of the stories featured in 152 pages of the issue.

Made In Brazil Magazine #2 is available online at madeinbrazilmag.com.

Picture via Vistu Issu.

I want to thank all the editors, photographers, journalists, agents, models, and friends who faced severe thunderstorms in São Paulo last Thursday night to attend the launch of the second issue of Made In Brazil Magazine. We had an amazing turn out again, and I am incredibly grateful to all of you who were there showing your support for the publication.

To check out more pictures of the party, head over to Lilian Pacce.

Made In Brazil Magazine #2 is already available for purchase at madeinbrazilmag.com, and at Livraria Cultura in São Paulo, Brasília, and Recife. Visit Models.com for a preview of the content. The edition is limited to 1,000 numbered copies.

Special thanks to Glamm Sparkling Wine for sponsoring the party and to Daniel Alfaya for the pictures.

After six months of a lot of hard work, I am thrilled that we are finally launching the second issue of Made In Brazil Magazine this week.

We shot the entire issue around a sports theme, and booked over 30 models and athletes, including cover boys Francisco Lachowski and Gabriel Burger, Arthur Sales, Natan Machado, Diego Miguel, Jean Carlos, Ricardo Carpentiere, Alex Rossi, Alexandre Verga, Max Motta, Maicon Galuppo, Marcelo Chierighini, Henrique Martins, Felipe Martins, Eduardo Spotti, Rael Costa, Isaac Farisato, Dante Tozetto, Rafael Leite, Raphael Lacchine, Vinicius Cardoso, Jordão Altmann, Igor Monteiro, Pedro Cavalca, David Pimentel, and newcomers Roger Balduíno, Vinicius Bergamine, Pedro Nóbrega, Luã Mayer, Igor Ducceschi, and Magnos.

While the first issue of Made In Brazil Magazine was photographed entirely by Cristiano Madureira, this issue also features stories photographed by Gui Paganini, Marcelo Krasilcic, Vicente de Paulo, newcomer Hugo Toni, and model Nathalie Edenburg, who shot an amazing portfolio of model Max Motta surfing in Indonesia. The team of contributors also includes top Brazilian stylists Paulo Martinez, Cesar Fassina, and Heleno Manoel, and illustrator André Azevedo, who did a brilliant story and some exclusive artwork for the issue.

The new issue of the magazine features 152 pages of photos and no advertisment. The edition is limited to 1,000 copies, only this time all of the copies are numbered from 0001 to 1,000. There is no online edition, and all content is exclusive to print.

Copies of Made In Brazil Magazine #2 are available for online purchase starting today at madeinbrazilmag.com. We will also be selling a very limited number of copies at Livraria Cultura in Brazil starting next week, and at Global News in New York in one to two weeks.

Since today is Thanksgiving, I would like to thank all the photographers who believed in this project, the stylists and make up artists who created beautiful images for the magazine, the models who not only embraced our crazy ideas, but took them even a step further, and most importantly, to all of you who purchased a copy of the first issue of the magazine this year. If it weren't for your support, we would not have been able to put another issue together. Thank you for allowing me to do a work that I absolutely love. I am very grateful for that.

For an exclusive preview of Made In Brazil Magazine #2 and a chance to win one of five free copies, head over to Models.com. For more information, visit madeinbrazilmag.com.

After six months of work, the second issue of Made In Brazil Magazine is almost out. We will be launching the new site for the magazine on Friday, but in the meantime make sure to check out a very special preview of the issue at Models.com. 

More on Made In Brazil Magazine #2 here on the blog this week, including a complete list of models, athletes, photographers, and stylists involved in the project. If you would like to win a free copy of the issue, we will be giving away five copies to the best comments posted here.