It is the 1960s and Augusta Dias, born in Porto, was motivated by her family to be a true exception to the rule. What? Discover her own interests, open her business and become an autonomous and independent woman, goals that were not common at that time. She soon realized that she had a special interest in drawing, painting and decoration, she became a private student of Júlio Resende and attended the classes of the Brazilian Luc Ximénes with whom he learned a new method of cutting clothes.
She left for Paris with the intention of deepening her knowledge in the field of fashion, at the prestigious ESMOD school, and on her return to Porto she opened a workshop for cutting and sewing, decorative arts, ceramics and cooking. In 1968, Augusta Dias (who gave rise to the acronym GUDI) realized that the innovative modeling process she had learned could be the key to her success.
“Before, clothes were made by eye and on top of a mannequin, Luc Ximénes developed a two-dimensional method, faster, more precise and efficient, where there was not much margin for error. When my grandmother began to teach this method, the clothing companies, mostly concentrated in the northern region, wanted to implement it quickly, that’s how it began to gain a name, training and doing a kind of consultancy in the textile industry,” he says. to the Observer Matilde Rocha, granddaughter of the founder and current General Director of GUDI.
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Source: Observadora
