As a fashion designer, you've jumped to a tattoo artist.

In the lockdown, I started tattooing the pig and orange shells. I started trying another illustration technique. She had the machine at home, but she had never given her time. I was afraid or respectful. As I tried, I realized that I liked it and that, unlike the fashion world I was immersed in, this is sustainability. I immediately felt a great bond. Pleasure. And as I drew as a child, I felt my imagination, my body and my mind united. Until then I was in the fashion world, not very satisfied with the pace of work imposed. But I had work.

A friend asked me to make a tattoo and I realized that more and more people were starting to ask and I thought it could be real. I turned my brand Letitare around and started doing petition work instead of creating two collections every year. So I went through the first steps.

Did lockdown help you realize your inner desire?

I would say yes. I realized that I lived by rejecting drawing, as if it wasn't important, as if I couldn't create and develop a craft with drawing. I've been drawing since I was young. In my grandmother's house, as adults talked after the table, I remember on the floor. Pencil in hand and a white paper in front. I spent hours like this.

The paralysis of the world gave me the strength to add the courage to do what I want. And the first experiment I did with myself, this world is very self-taught and I didn't want to be wrong. I immediately realized I was in my place.

I love and follow the thread and the needle, but the ink and the needle is something else. I find it very difficult to explain, I get a special connection. I act without panic, very sure of myself and without difficulty to fulfill the request.

What's your style?

With the pencil I'm also stroke, I've always been very linear. I've always drawn with a white paper and without many colors, and I've realized that with tattoos I've also developed by it camino.Hoy on a day it's very affordable to get tattoos and people ask me for subtle tattoos. It requires designs to be separated from traditional, traditional style.

By putting aesthetics in its best sense, aesthetics, the desire to say, symbology can be well joined... People bring sketches and photos, and I try to complement drawing. Until I get to do something very personal. So what you do is really identity. Own, personal and unique. I don't know why, but I get a lot of women, and I realize that demands come to the fore. People don't tattoo everything.

Do you create tattooers?

I like working with the customer. Create together what you will tattoo. Many times ideas are not very clear to anyone who comes to us. He knows what he wants, but how he doesn't represent it, and that's our job. So when they give me confidence to create what they want, I get very happy. That complies with me, I like to feel involved. There are very intimate moments, a special closeness. After all, you are creating something that is forever and it is essential to be content with the result. I don't know anyone with a single tattoo. We quickly come together and want another. It is something that often happens to me, and that within a few days of the end, the client will return to a new appointment.

Are there limits to the importance of aesthetics?

I would say that limits can be broken, beyond aesthetics. They say that the ink spreads in the fingers, for example, but, regardless of these situations, when the tattoo has a great symbolic weight, for example, I like to feel free. The body speaks. All skins are different, ink acts differently on one skin or another. Aesthetics arises when you start playing with design and body. Clearly defining the desire, let us try to create something comfortable and nice for the person. I like to talk about folds, curves -- the body.

Did you recognize yourself as a designer and tattooer? Artist, creator, in short.

I find it hard to recognize that I'm an artist. I don't consider myself an artist. I believe that art should be more than the result of a trade that meets the needs. I would say that the fashion we consume today is far from art. In the world of tattoos, when I enter the creation process, then yes. It's my passion.