The 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 he recharges his batteries and returns to whenever he 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.

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

She is truly happy when she receives her loved ones at home. She loves to receive people and is committed to every last detail, flowers are always present. She loves boganvilias. In true Latin fashion, it's around good wine, a well-set table and good conversation that she feels life makes sense. In sharing, in joy, in surrender. As she once read on the wall of a restaurant:

"...taking care of people's happiness during the hours they spend under our roof...".

He interrupted his law degree to start working in what would become his true passion: fashion. First in stores, he 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 marked her deeply and linked her forever to street commerce. Her second store is in Chiado.

"I'm proud to be part of a new culture of street commerce that preserves history and tradition, where detail, attention and the customer play the main role."

In the meantime, he was invited to work in showrooms in Lisbon, thus beginning a new phase in his 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 the brands that play the main role, it's the customers, always the customers."

In 2001, the sparkle in her eyes took on a new light when she became a mother. She wanted her son to see in her an example of strength, courage and passion. Fighting 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'm the hustle and bustle and he's the calm, I couldn't ask for more."

He was also given the opportunity to travel all over Europe, presenting collections, fashion shows, prospecting for new brands, opening up horizons, gaining experience, allowing him to grasp even more dimensions of the business.
About a decade ago, sensing the signs of market recession, he knew exactly what he wanted to do and how to do it. He will never forget who helped him get his dream off the ground. He quickly established himself as an alternative in the area of retail and quality prompt delivery. Giving her customers fortnightly access to collections for immediate delivery proved to be a successful strategy in that context and still is today.

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

Thus Vintage Bazaar was born in 2007, in Santo Amaro de Oeiras, in an old neighborhood grocery store in her neighborhood. Always guided by her intuition, she established herself, creating Vintage Bazaar's first showroom on her own, where the brand's first store is today.

"Being grateful, having my feet firmly on the ground and working every day with the same humility are maxims I never give up."

She created a free-spirited fashion brand, but also a lifestyle brand based on a modern bohemian concept. Vintage and homestyle are other passions. In her stores, she truly seeks to inspire those who enter her world. A brand should make you dream, 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 by them that she gets involved every day. She dresses women like Mafalda Pinto Leite, Anna Westerlund, Fernanda Ferreira Velez, Lúcia Moniz, Rita Ferro, Maria Guedes, Ana Stilwell, Catarina Jardim, Carolina Patrocínio and Teresa Tavares. But there are also so many other women, dreamers, open-minded, real and restless, who see Vintage Bazaar as a way of expressing themselves and receiving its message.

"For a while I lived in the ignorance of thinking that this could be a futile world, today I am thrilled to be present in 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 fail. He sees travel as an enormous privilege that life gives him to look at his project and his life in perspective, and from where he always comes back with redoubled energy and a thousand new ideas.

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

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

"I thank my team for making my dream possible every day!"