Catarina Trindade

Catarina Trindade is a copywriter and multidisciplinary creative from Lisbon living in a bucolic little city in the outskirts of Paris with her husband, their daughter and their dog. Currently working as a full-time yoga teacher and as a designer, her obsession with beauty and aesthetics, along with her endlessly creative and restless nature, have been been nourished, channelled and developed throughout her life - from her work as a graphics and communication designer, writing, copywriting, photography, illustration, acting and cooking.

The collaboration with PIINO in this beautiful collection came from Rita's idea of me putting into words the fortunate serendipity (also another form of beauty) of sharing the same visual and synesthesic childhood memories in the south of Portugal, and translating those words into something beautiful for you to wear.

If anyone checked, they would probably find fragments of terracotta, sea breeze and sunshine over wet sand running through my veins.
I close my eyes and I see this image, this 5 second synesthetic loop in my mind, where the scent of the warm orange cliffs meet the sea, shifting to an end-of-the day soft, yet bright, light reflected just where the water meets the sand.

Time didn’t matter because time was always expanding in front of my eyes, as I was fully submerged in my own world, tirelessly throwing hands on the sand and feet in the hair, doing handstands and looking for the perfect balance, in a neverending limitless play. Treasure hunting by the shore, knees-on-the-floor castle building, holes digging and rolling down the cliffs covering my skin with clay and sand.

And then, of course the ocean. The complete surrender in the act of running towards the waves, the deep dives, the summersaults, the pure joy and the floating through the calmness of it all.