Daughter of an adventurer and a vintage collector, Patricia Nunes Pereira was born marked by the unique influences of the 70s, and by a rich and eclectic aesthetic and cultural universe.
The stunning Costa Vicentina, Carrapateira and Amado, wild and unspoiled, was where she spent her summers. It is still in this land of cold baths, rebellious cacti and rounded hills that she recharges her batteries and returns to whenever she can. There, she feels at home.
The nomadic side of life has always attracted her, restless, curious, eager for anything that reveals new ways of being and being. Traveling is still one of her great passions.

She studied in Lisbon but lived in Santo Amaro de Oeiras, by the sea, where she ended up settling years later. She still maintains friendships from those days.

She is truly happy when she welcomes her loved ones into her home. She loves entertaining and pays attention to every last detail; flowers are always present. She loves bougainvilleas. In true Latin fashion, it is around a good wine, a well-set table, and good conversation that she feels life makes sense. In sharing, in joy, in devotion. As she read on the wall of a restaurant one day:

"...taking responsibility for people's happiness during the hours they spend under our roof..."

She interrupted her law degree to start working in what would become her true passion: fashion. First in stores, she became fascinated by the contact with the public, but also by learning how collections work, timings, merchandising, targets, and all the fascinating parts of this area of retail.

She worked for several years in Chiado, an area that left a deep impression on her and connected her forever to street commerce. Her second store is located in Chiado.

“I am proud to be part of a new culture of street commerce, which preserves history and tradition, where detail, attention, and the customer play the leading role.”

In the meantime, she was invited to work in showrooms in Lisbon, thus beginning a new phase in her career. She came into contact with the market from North to South and, above all, built up a relationship of trust with her clients.

“It’s not brands that play the leading role, it’s customers, always customers.”

In 2001, her eyes sparkled with a new light when she became a mother. She wanted her son to see her as an example of strength, courage, and passion. Fight for what makes you happy. Love what you do.

“I wouldn't be happy without Vintage Bazaar, and my son knows that and respects it. We have a kind of complementary relationship, I am the excitement and he is the calm, I couldn't ask for more."

She was also given the opportunity to travel throughout Europe for collection presentations, fashion shows, and prospecting for new brands, broadening her horizons, gaining experience, and allowing her to grasp even more dimensions of the business.
About a decade ago, sensing the signs of a market recession, she knew exactly what she wanted to do and how to do it. She will never forget those who contributed to the launch of her dream. She quickly established herself as an alternative in the area of retail and quality ready-to-wear. Giving her customers biweekly access to collections for immediate delivery proved to be a successful strategy in that context and continues to be so today.

"I always felt that this was where I wanted to be, and that I had something to offer."

Thus, in 2007, Vintage Bazaar was born in Santo Amaro de Oeiras, in an old neighborhood grocery store in her neighborhood. Always guided by her intuition, she established herself, single-handedly creating the first Vintage Bazaar showroom, which is now the brand's first store.

"Being grateful, having my feet firmly on the ground, and working every day with the same humility are maxims that I will not compromise."

She created a free-spirited fashion brand, but also a lifestyle brand based on a modern bohemian concept. Vintage and homestyle are other passions of hers. In her stores, she truly seeks to inspire those who enter her world. A brand should inspire dreams, have a DNA, a concept that it respects and perpetuates in everything it does.

Her inspiration comes from women, and it is for them and because of them that she gets involved every day. She dresses women such as Mafalda Pinto Leite, Anna Westerlund, Fernanda Ferreira Velez, Lúcia Moniz, Rita Ferro, Maria Guedes, Ana Stilwell, Catarina Jardim, Carolina Patrocínio, and Teresa Tavares. But also many other women, dreamers, open-minded, genuine, and restless, who see Vintage Bazaar as a form of expression and receive its message. And this is what keeps the brand from becoming complacent.

“For some time, I lived in ignorance, thinking that this could be a futile world, but today I am thrilled to be part of this industry. I respect it.”

He travels frequently so that everything can happen and to supervise a very delicate and fast-paced production process in which nothing can go wrong. He sees these trips as an enormous privilege that life has given him, allowing him to look at his project and his life from a different perspective, and from which he always returns with renewed energy and a thousand and one new ideas.

"If we believe in what we do and do it with truth and passion, that truth reaches people. We convey a message. I deeply believe in this."

She remains faithful to her concept but always reads the market, attentive to new challenges, always wanting to surprise. She likes to believe that her story can inspire others to follow their dreams and intuition.

“I thank my team for making my dream come true every day!”