“DIVO.” Accessed May 2, 2021. https://www.divo.fashion/
This source is simply to provide context when watching the Telenovela Windeck. Although not an exact replica, the Show Windeck is a soap opera about the scandals, hard work and drama in the Fashion industry. DIVO is a menswear lifestyle magazine, but in the show it is more of a general fashion magazine much like Vogue. This slight change however brings a much more dynamic shift to the way in which luxury, wealth and wealth inequality are perceived.
Even though this is referencing the Windeck telenovela, the importance of a lifestyle fashion magazine is an indicator of wealth in and of itself. To have the money and time to spend looking at and interacting with the fashion community is a middle class aspiration. To want to be something more, to want to fit in, to want to have the latests fashions. These are all indicators of capitalist material expression that has become part of Brazilian culture, especially in the big city of Sao Paulo. Divo magazine shows that people that come from these lusophone countries do have style and a lifestyle that is worth reaching for. In the show Windeck, the struggles and beauties of the cutthroat fashion editorial business of DIVO is a central element of the whole show. Obviously dramaticized to be a soap opera, the passion and effort that the people put into their work at DIVO and the high end brands that they mention clearly indicate the way that Brazilian material culture has affected Angola, both positively and negatively.