PatBO Sustainability - SustainabilityTracker.com

PatBO is a Brazilian fashion brand founded by Patricia Bonaldi and known for hand-embroidered ready-to-wear and swim collections. Its sustainability-related content centres on craftsmanship, local skills development, and the use of recycled materials in fashion collaborations. The brand established an embroidery school in Uberlândia to teach local women traditional craft skills, and hundreds of people have been trained through the initiative. PatBO has also taken part in projects using recycled plastic content and post-consumer waste in fashion pieces, including work shown at São Paulo Fashion Week.

Embroidery school in Uberlândia

Rather than outsourcing this, Patricia Bonaldi established a school in her hometown for the express purpose of teaching local women this special craft. Today, hundreds of local men and women are empowered by the skills they have acquired.

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Costurando Sonhos project

Patricia Bonaldi brings this philosophy to her hometown of Uberlândia, Brazil, through the Costurando Sonhos Project ("Sewing Dreams"), a school she founded to preserve artisanal craftsmanship and create economic opportunities for local women. Offering free embroidery and sewing courses, the program equips women with the skills to build financial independence while carrying forward traditional techniques. To date, the initiative has supported more than 500 women.

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Recycled plastic fashion pieces

Braskem has joined forces once again with the designer label PatBO to take to edition N48 of São Paulo Fashion Week, Brazil's leading fashion event, an innovative form of consumption: sustainable apparel with recycled plastic content. The company brought together textile makers, students and opinion makers in the fashion world in a challenge that transformed post-consumer waste, namely disposal cups, into beachwear.

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Fashion Challenge participation

The students participated in the second edition of the Braskem Fashion Challenge, an initiative that works to showcase plastics as a versatile, adaptable and sustainable alternative in fashion design, while offering students an opportunity to apply in the real world what they have learned in the classroom.

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