More than Fashionable, an Icon (Havaianas)
19 February 2008
Rio de Janeiro, 
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If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, chances are good that the winter blues have set in and you are dreaming of Carnival and Mardi Gras. The cheap alternative to booking a flight is to tune into Havaianas.com and open the senses to a complete Brazilian experience.
Havaianas is a brand of flip-flops, except they are not called flip-flops, since the company understands a thing or two about brand management. Instead these sandals are Havaianas, the genuine and colorful article. Launched in 1965, the Havaianas brand logo adorned a revolution in footwear, designed on the model of the Japanese flip-flop, but made with Brazilian rubber. In the mid-1990s Havaianas found its path as a differentiated product that connotes Brazil as much as Corona taps into the sun of Mexico. The Top, as the new model is called, is a single-color flip-flop that will win over the hearts and minds of the well-to-do. Havaianas are fashionable, celebrity-worthy accessories.
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