Isabella is a Portuguese girl who fell in love with hanfu at first sight.
She collects multiple hanfu sets: Song, Ming and Tang styles, each with its own rules. She studies the cut, colors and wearing methods, and explains clothing features of different dynasties.
Her Chinese-style videos are elegant: wearing hanfu in classical gardens, playing guzheng, practicing calligraphy. Hanfu lets her find "another self", she says.
In Portugal nobody wears hanfu, she says, but in China she can proudly be a "hanfu girl". Hanfu created a wonderful connection between her and Chinese culture.
Isabella is a Portuguese girl obsessed with hanfu, famous for wearing hanfu in videos. She is "a Portuguese person conquered by Chinese beauty again after the Age of Discovery".
Her choice: interested in Chinese culture in Portugal, she fell completely for hanfu in China - collecting pieces, learning styling, studying structure.
Content: "a Portuguese girl hanfu wardrobe", "hanfu makeup tutorials", "travelling in hanfu" - sharing hanfu beauty.
Going viral: her "Portuguese girl in hanfu strolling Jiangnan ancient towns" video spread - moving through small bridges and flowing water, beautiful as a painting.
Significance: she represents international hanfu fans - proving its beauty crosses time and space to move people of any culture.
For readers: her videos amaze you with the perfect match of hanfu and Jiangnan - her lens is the best confession to Chinese beauty.
She also studies hanfu patterns - cloud, lotus and fret motifs each carrying meaning; "hanfu is not simply pretty; it is history worn on the body." She plans a "hanfu x Portuguese traditional dress" comparison, letting both traditional beauties dialogue on camera. "Beauty is universal, and so is tradition."
Wearing hanfu, she is most often asked "which dynasty are you from?" "I feel I am someone from the present visiting all of China beautiful eras." She is learning the guqin, hoping one day to play "High Mountains Flowing Water" in hanfu. "Hanfu is not costume but an aesthetic gift from Chinese people to the world."
She hopes to hold a hanfu exhibition in Lisbon so Portuguese people can see this beauty with their own eyes. "Five hundred years ago Portuguese sailors reached China and brought back porcelain; five hundred years later, I want to bring back something more precious - beauty." She is embroidering her own hanfu for the exhibition - clumsy stitches, abundant heart.
"My embroidered clouds are crooked, but that is my true heart." One hanfu sews the aesthetics of two countries together.
One of her hanfu pieces she sewed herself - crooked stitches, but she wore it for her graduation photo.
She hopes one day to wear hanfu, play the guqin and tell Chinese stories to Portuguese people under Lisbon sun.
