Raica Oliveira
Encyclopedia
Raica Oliveira is a Brazil
ian model
known for her work with numerous companies, including Dior
, Dolce & Gabbana
, Yves Saint Laurent
, Vogue
, Chanel
, Lancome
, Victoria's Secret
, Pepe Jeans
, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
, JLO
, H&M
, Elle
, Marie Claire
, TNG
, Ann Taylor
and XOXO
. As of 2008, she has been working as a fashion reporter for Jornal Record.
She resides in Manhattan
, New York City.
, Brazil
, the youngest of three children. She has two brothers: Givago (an economist) and Pablo (a lawyer). She graduated from the Sao Vicente de Paula school in Niteroi.
Before becoming a model, she practiced bodyboarding
. She dreamed of becoming a model since she was ten years old. Oliveira was discovered by the same agent who discovered Gisele Bündchen
, Sergio Mattos.
In 1999, Oliveira entered the Elite Model Look
contest in Brazil and beat 30,000 girls for the top prize. She was sent to Nice
, France, for the final international competition, where she placed second. Soon thereafter, she moved to New York with her mother Conceição de Oliveira to try to build her career.
. She was one of the most talked about models of the season alongside Adriana Lima
, Maggie Rizer
, Oluchi and Karen Elson
. Her first campaign was for Christian Dior
, shot by photographer Nick Knight
; it appeared in the likes of Vogue
and Vanity Fair
. In May 2000 Oliveira was one of the models to appear in the Vogue USA edition' segment Blame It On Rio, the photographer was Mario Testino
and it also featured Gisele Bündchen
, Fernanda Tavares
and others .Raica becoming one of Brazil's most searched top models led her to be ranked in 2001 by the magazine Istoe Gente to be on of the best paid Brazilian models, earning US$300,000 for her work, which included walking in more than 76 fashion shows in only two seasons.
The 2002 calendar celebrating the Vespa, shot by Peter Beard, featured Oliveira, along with Nourchene Scherif and Mia Rosing. Oliveira also posed for the Pirelli Calendar
in 2005. The same year Jennifer Lopez
decided to make her own clothing line and Raica was chosen to appear on the ads as the head face for the fall/ winter collection.
In addition to her campaigns and ads for Dolce & Gabbana
, Yves Saint Laurent
, and La Perla
, Oliveira was unveiled as a spokesmodel for the cosmetics company Lancome
in 2006 and fashion laicence Punto Blanco. She then replaced top model Naomi Campbell
at the Selmark Underwear Collection 2006 fashion show. She has also modeled swimwear for Victoria's Secret
.
In 2006 Oliveira has joined the ranks of models charging over €20,000 for a fashion show after she walked on the runway for TNG fashion show in Rio. In February 2007 she appeared in Sports Illustrated
.
In March 2007 Oliveira joined IMG
Paris and she also appeared in Ann Taylor
advertisements. In September 2007, she appeared in Bandolino ads which was featured in Vogue and InStyle. She also became the new face of Avon Oliveira is also a representative for David Morris London jewelry.
Raica was one of the supermodels who appeared in the Blame It On Brazil edition of Vanity Fair
in September 2007, photographed by Mario Testino.
Photographer Gabriel Mendes' work, "Urban Puns - Trocadilhos Urbanos",which consists of urban portraits, mostly everyday-people shot in front of street-art murals, that were shot in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and New York, where Mendes resides, has Raica posing for the photographer as the subject on one of the twelve photos that make his visual diary. The photo was taken in New York in front of a street graffiti in 2007.
She is featured in the Sports Illustrated 2007 Calendar and appeared at the
Sports Illustrated 2007 Sportsman of the Year Awards on December 4, 2007.
In February 2008, she appeared in a GQ editorial for United Kingdom. Oliveira landed a contract with the fashion brand XOXO
for the year 2008. The new XOXO campaign features both Oliveira's face and name in their brand, revealing Raica as one of their spokesmodels. She is currently with Next Models( London, New York, Milan and Miami), Elite Models, Munchen Models, and more.
São Paulo Fashion Week released a calendar featuring 25 Brazilian models including Oliveira, photographed by Bob Wolfenson with art direction by Giovanni Bianco
. The calendar was accompanied by a movie containing interviews with the models, which was broadcast at GNT in Brazil and then hit the shelves as a DVD.
In April 2008, Oliveira was featured in a campaign for fashion brand H&M
in the Caribbean and in the United States.
Oliveira is against posing nude: "I could not pose nude. Nothing against those who do, but I never felt right about it. It's not something that would make me proud."
She graced the May 2008 cover of Spain's YO DONA magazine. Oliveira appeared at the Cannes Film Festival
in 2008. In Cannes
, she was photographed for the French Vogue
.
She took part in the São Paulo Fashion Week with Michelle Alves
, Isabeli Fontana
and Caroline Ribeiro
on the Rosa Chá male fashion show spring/summer 2008/2009 in June.
Oliveira, Daniela Cicarelli
and Deborah Secco
are the faces of the Brazilian footwear brand Via Marte for the Spring/Summer collection 2008/2009 and Raica is also the spokesmodel for Lez a Lez, Banco de Areia and Pain de Sucre (France) for spring/summer 2009.
The fashion week in São Paulo (SPFW) for the summer season 2010 featured Raica walking on the fashion shows of Agua de Coco. O Estilo and Cia Maritima which are two of Brazilian best known fashion brands.
Raica Oliveira is modeling lingerie for Victoria's Secret
. She is featured in the brands new campaign in 2009. This is the second time Raica is advertising Victoria's Secret since 2005 when she appeared in their swimwear catalogue.
Oliveira is the first Brazilian model ever to appear in a Swarovski campaign. She is the face of the Ginga Collection which hits the stores in April 2010.
Since the year 2000 Raica Oliveira has appeared in more than 6 Vogue
editions such as Vogue USA, Vogue Australia, Vogue Spain, Vogue Italy,Vogue Brazil, Vogue Paris.
In November 2010 Oliveira became the new face of lingerie brand Ultimo replacing Kelly Brook
. However, while Raica is happy to pose in her underwear for the new campaign, she has drawn the line at ever posing nude.
.
She was going to be the presenter of Fórum Desenvolvimento Sustentável 2008 but was unable to do so because of her modeling work.
Oliveira speaks Portuguese, English, French, Spanish and Italian. She loves animals. She has eight dogs in her home town . Raica has six tattoo
s and plans to study philosophy
at a university when she retires.
She reportedly dated Nat Rothschild in 2008, of the famous banking family, formerly was between 2006 in partnership to Ronaldo
.
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
known for her work with numerous companies, including Dior
Dior
Dior can mean:* Christian Dior SA, a French clothing retailer* In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth legendarium:**Dior Eluchíl, a Half-elven of the First Age**Dior , a Steward of GondorDior is a surname, and may refer to:...
, Dolce & Gabbana
Dolce & Gabbana
Dolce & Gabbana is an Italian luxury industry fashion house. The company was started by the Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana in Milan, Italy. By 2005 their turnover was €597 million....
, Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent (brand)
Yves Saint Laurent or YSL is a luxury fashion house founded by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé. Today, its chief designer is Stefano Pilati. Yves Saint Laurent, founder of the brand, died in 2008.-History:...
, Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
, Chanel
Chanel
Chanel S.A. is a French fashion house founded by the couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, well established in haute couture, specializing in luxury goods . She gained the name "Coco" while maintaining a career as a singer at a café in France...
, Lancome
Lancôme
Lancôme Paris is a makeup brand. Owned by L'Oréal since 1964, Lancôme is part of the Luxury Products division, which offers skin care, fragrances, and makeup at higher-end prices....
, Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret is an American retailer of women's wear, lingerie and beauty products. It is the largest segment of publicly-traded Limited Brands with sales of over US$5 billion and an operating income of $1 billion in 2006...
, Pepe Jeans
Pepe Jeans
Pepe Jeans London is a denim and casual wear jeans brand that was established in the Portobello Road area of London in 1973. From its origins as a tiny market stall to more than half a US billion dollar brand, Pepe has transformed itself into a jeanswear label found throughout Europe...
, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is published annually by Sports Illustrated. It features fashion models wearing swimwear in exotic locales. According to some, the magazine is the arbiter of supermodel succession. In addition, the issue is a media nexus that in 2005 carried in advertising....
, JLO
JLO by Jennifer Lopez
JLO by Jennifer Lopez is a lifestyle brand that incorporates every aspect of Jennifer Lopez's life. The line includes many different types of clothing for young and older women, including swimwear, fragrances, eyewear, jewelry, hats, gloves, and scarves, outerwear, handbags, lingerie, bed...
, H&M
H&M
H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB is a Swedish retail-clothing company, known for its fast-fashion clothing offerings for women, men, teenagers and children....
, Elle
Elle (magazine)
Elle is a worldwide magazine of French origin that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's largest fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she".-History:Elle was founded in...
, Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Marie Claire is a monthly women's magazine first published in France but also distributed in other countries with editions specific to them and in their languages. While each country shares its own special voice with its audience, the United States edition focuses on women around the world and...
, TNG
TNG
TNG may refer to:* Degrassi: The Next Generation, a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe* The Newlywed Game, an American television game show* Samba TNG, a fork of the Samba networking protocol...
, Ann Taylor
Ann Taylor (retail chain)
ANN INC. is an American group of specialty apparel retail chain stores for women, headquartered in New York City, . The stores offer classic styled suits, separates, dresses, shoes and accessories...
and XOXO
XOXO (brand)
XOXO is an American contemporary clothing brand, owned by Kellwood Company. XOXO is targeted towards young females, mainly teenagers. It was started by Greg Fiene in 1991, creating what is now one of the first contemporary brands especially for teens, sold at an affordable price...
. As of 2008, she has been working as a fashion reporter for Jornal Record.
She resides in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
, New York City.
Early life
Oliveira was born in NiteróiNiterói
Niterói is a municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, southeast region of Brazil. It has an estimated population of 487,327 inhabitants and an area of ², being the sixth most populous city in the state and the highest Human Development Index. Integrates the Metropolitan Region of Rio de...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, the youngest of three children. She has two brothers: Givago (an economist) and Pablo (a lawyer). She graduated from the Sao Vicente de Paula school in Niteroi.
Before becoming a model, she practiced bodyboarding
Bodyboarding
Bodyboarding is a surface water sport . The average board consists of a small, rectangular piece of hydrodynamic foam, sometimes containing a ridged spine called a 'stringer'...
. She dreamed of becoming a model since she was ten years old. Oliveira was discovered by the same agent who discovered Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian fashion model, occasional film actress and goodwill ambassador for the UN Environment Programme.In the late 1990s, Bündchen became one of the first in a wave of Brazilian models to find success...
, Sergio Mattos.
In 1999, Oliveira entered the Elite Model Look
Elite Model Look
Elite Model Look is a yearly fashion modeling event held by Elite Model Management, an international model management group. It is the premiere and most prestigious modeling contest used to discover and launch fashion models in the international fashion marketplace...
contest in Brazil and beat 30,000 girls for the top prize. She was sent to Nice
Nice
Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...
, France, for the final international competition, where she placed second. Soon thereafter, she moved to New York with her mother Conceição de Oliveira to try to build her career.
Career
Raica Oliveira was christened "The Sensation" at the 1999 fall fashion shows in Paris and MilanMilan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
. She was one of the most talked about models of the season alongside Adriana Lima
Adriana Lima
Adriana Lima is a Brazilian model, best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2000, and as a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics from 2003 to 2009...
, Maggie Rizer
Maggie Rizer
Maggie Rizer is an American model, actress, and AIDS activist. She is also ambassador for Operation Smile.-Personal life:...
, Oluchi and Karen Elson
Karen Elson
Karen Elson is a British model, singer-songwriter and guitarist.As a child, Elson attended North Chadderton School in Chadderton with her twin sister, filmmaker Kate Elson. She began working as a model as a teenager....
. Her first campaign was for Christian Dior
Christian Dior
Christian Dior , was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior.-Life:...
, shot by photographer Nick Knight
Nick Knight
Nicholas Verity Knight is a former England cricketer. Knight's middle name was in honour of the 1930s English Test bowler Hedley Verity who was killed in World War II and is a distant family relation...
; it appeared in the likes of Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
and Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
. In May 2000 Oliveira was one of the models to appear in the Vogue USA edition' segment Blame It On Rio, the photographer was Mario Testino
Mario Testino
-Early Life:Testino grew up in Lima, the eldest son of a businessman. When he was young he wanted to be a priest. Testino recalls being unpopular at school because of his flamboyance. He was good at math and went on to study economics at Universidad del Pacífico, where his insistence on wearing...
and it also featured Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian fashion model, occasional film actress and goodwill ambassador for the UN Environment Programme.In the late 1990s, Bündchen became one of the first in a wave of Brazilian models to find success...
, Fernanda Tavares
Fernanda Tavares
Fernanda Tavares is a Brazilian model.-Biography:Born in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, Tavares was appearing in local shows at the age of nine, and at just 13 she won the "Elite Look of the Year" contest. A year later, she was invited by agents to go to São Paulo to pursue a modeling career...
and others .Raica becoming one of Brazil's most searched top models led her to be ranked in 2001 by the magazine Istoe Gente to be on of the best paid Brazilian models, earning US$300,000 for her work, which included walking in more than 76 fashion shows in only two seasons.
The 2002 calendar celebrating the Vespa, shot by Peter Beard, featured Oliveira, along with Nourchene Scherif and Mia Rosing. Oliveira also posed for the Pirelli Calendar
Pirelli Calendar
The Pirelli Calendar is a trade calendar published by the Pirelli company's UK subsidiary. It has become an annual publication that dates back to 1964....
in 2005. The same year Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, television personality, and fashion designer. Lopez began her career as a dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color. Subsequently venturing into acting, she gained recognition in the 1995 action-thriller...
decided to make her own clothing line and Raica was chosen to appear on the ads as the head face for the fall/ winter collection.
In addition to her campaigns and ads for Dolce & Gabbana
Dolce & Gabbana
Dolce & Gabbana is an Italian luxury industry fashion house. The company was started by the Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana in Milan, Italy. By 2005 their turnover was €597 million....
, Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent (brand)
Yves Saint Laurent or YSL is a luxury fashion house founded by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé. Today, its chief designer is Stefano Pilati. Yves Saint Laurent, founder of the brand, died in 2008.-History:...
, and La Perla
La Perla
* La Perla District, Peru* La Perla, Veracruz, Mexico* La Perla, San Juan, Puerto Rico, area of Old San Juan in Puerto Rico**La Perla Theater, Ponce, Puerto Rico*La Perla Spa, building in Mar del Plata, Argentina...
, Oliveira was unveiled as a spokesmodel for the cosmetics company Lancome
Lancôme
Lancôme Paris is a makeup brand. Owned by L'Oréal since 1964, Lancôme is part of the Luxury Products division, which offers skin care, fragrances, and makeup at higher-end prices....
in 2006 and fashion laicence Punto Blanco. She then replaced top model Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell is a British model. Scouted at the age of 15, she established herself among the top three most recognisable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and she was one of six models of her generation declared "supermodels" by the fashion world...
at the Selmark Underwear Collection 2006 fashion show. She has also modeled swimwear for Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret is an American retailer of women's wear, lingerie and beauty products. It is the largest segment of publicly-traded Limited Brands with sales of over US$5 billion and an operating income of $1 billion in 2006...
.
In 2006 Oliveira has joined the ranks of models charging over €20,000 for a fashion show after she walked on the runway for TNG fashion show in Rio. In February 2007 she appeared in Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...
.
In March 2007 Oliveira joined IMG
IMG Models
IMG Models is one of the major international modeling agencies, currently representing only female models. Its mother office is in New York City, with branches in Paris, London, Milan and Hong Kong. It is a division of New York, NY-based IMG...
Paris and she also appeared in Ann Taylor
Ann Taylor (retail chain)
ANN INC. is an American group of specialty apparel retail chain stores for women, headquartered in New York City, . The stores offer classic styled suits, separates, dresses, shoes and accessories...
advertisements. In September 2007, she appeared in Bandolino ads which was featured in Vogue and InStyle. She also became the new face of Avon Oliveira is also a representative for David Morris London jewelry.
Raica was one of the supermodels who appeared in the Blame It On Brazil edition of Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
in September 2007, photographed by Mario Testino.
Photographer Gabriel Mendes' work, "Urban Puns - Trocadilhos Urbanos",which consists of urban portraits, mostly everyday-people shot in front of street-art murals, that were shot in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and New York, where Mendes resides, has Raica posing for the photographer as the subject on one of the twelve photos that make his visual diary. The photo was taken in New York in front of a street graffiti in 2007.
She is featured in the Sports Illustrated 2007 Calendar and appeared at the
Sports Illustrated 2007 Sportsman of the Year Awards on December 4, 2007.
In February 2008, she appeared in a GQ editorial for United Kingdom. Oliveira landed a contract with the fashion brand XOXO
XOXO (brand)
XOXO is an American contemporary clothing brand, owned by Kellwood Company. XOXO is targeted towards young females, mainly teenagers. It was started by Greg Fiene in 1991, creating what is now one of the first contemporary brands especially for teens, sold at an affordable price...
for the year 2008. The new XOXO campaign features both Oliveira's face and name in their brand, revealing Raica as one of their spokesmodels. She is currently with Next Models( London, New York, Milan and Miami), Elite Models, Munchen Models, and more.
São Paulo Fashion Week released a calendar featuring 25 Brazilian models including Oliveira, photographed by Bob Wolfenson with art direction by Giovanni Bianco
Giovanni Bianco
Giovanni Bianco is a Brazilian Italian creative director with a studio in New York, known for his work with Madonna, Miu Miu, Dsquared2, Zegna, Pepe Jeans, Missoni, Car Shoe, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, Vogue Italia, L'Uomo Vogue, and Steven Klein.-Advertising Client History:Alessandro...
. The calendar was accompanied by a movie containing interviews with the models, which was broadcast at GNT in Brazil and then hit the shelves as a DVD.
In April 2008, Oliveira was featured in a campaign for fashion brand H&M
H&M
H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB is a Swedish retail-clothing company, known for its fast-fashion clothing offerings for women, men, teenagers and children....
in the Caribbean and in the United States.
Oliveira is against posing nude: "I could not pose nude. Nothing against those who do, but I never felt right about it. It's not something that would make me proud."
She graced the May 2008 cover of Spain's YO DONA magazine. Oliveira appeared at the Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
in 2008. In Cannes
Cannes
Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
, she was photographed for the French Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
.
She took part in the São Paulo Fashion Week with Michelle Alves
Michelle Alves
Michelle Alves is a Brazilian model.She was born in Londrina, Parana, Brazil, as the daughter of a lawyer and an engineer . Alves was a student in civil engineering at Brazil's Londrina State University prior to moving to São Paulo, where she pursued modeling...
, Isabeli Fontana
Isabeli Fontana
-Early life and discovery:Fontana was born in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. In 1996 she made it to the finals of the Elite Model Look when she was just 13 and in the following year she moved from South of Brazil to Milan, Italy, to start her modelling career.-Career:...
and Caroline Ribeiro
Caroline Ribeiro
Caroline Ribeiro is a Brazilian model. As a teenager, Ribeiro moved to São Paulo to begin modeling. She states of her own looks, "I think my face is different, it's exotic - not like normal beauty. I don't have what you would call perfect beauty.....
on the Rosa Chá male fashion show spring/summer 2008/2009 in June.
Oliveira, Daniela Cicarelli
Daniela Cicarelli
Daniella Cicarelli Lemos is a former TV show hostess for MTV Brasil and a fashion model. She was engaged to Brazilian footballer Ronaldo for three months in 2005....
and Deborah Secco
Deborah Secco
Deborah Fialho Secco is a Brazilian actress.- Television Series :- Films :-Magazine covers:* Uma Magazine, in February 2007....
are the faces of the Brazilian footwear brand Via Marte for the Spring/Summer collection 2008/2009 and Raica is also the spokesmodel for Lez a Lez, Banco de Areia and Pain de Sucre (France) for spring/summer 2009.
The fashion week in São Paulo (SPFW) for the summer season 2010 featured Raica walking on the fashion shows of Agua de Coco. O Estilo and Cia Maritima which are two of Brazilian best known fashion brands.
Raica Oliveira is modeling lingerie for Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret is an American retailer of women's wear, lingerie and beauty products. It is the largest segment of publicly-traded Limited Brands with sales of over US$5 billion and an operating income of $1 billion in 2006...
. She is featured in the brands new campaign in 2009. This is the second time Raica is advertising Victoria's Secret since 2005 when she appeared in their swimwear catalogue.
Oliveira is the first Brazilian model ever to appear in a Swarovski campaign. She is the face of the Ginga Collection which hits the stores in April 2010.
Since the year 2000 Raica Oliveira has appeared in more than 6 Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
editions such as Vogue USA, Vogue Australia, Vogue Spain, Vogue Italy,Vogue Brazil, Vogue Paris.
In November 2010 Oliveira became the new face of lingerie brand Ultimo replacing Kelly Brook
Kelly Brook
Kelly Brook is an English model, actress, entrepreneur, television presenter and Playboy model.-Early life:...
. However, while Raica is happy to pose in her underwear for the new campaign, she has drawn the line at ever posing nude.
Reporter for Jornal Record
Since 2008, Oliveira has been working as a reporter in Paris and New York for the Portuguese Jornal Record. Oliveira will be reporting on fashion occasions occurring in Paris and New York for the program Hoje em Dia which is hosted by fellow model Ana HickmannAna Hickmann
Ana Lúcia Hickmann is a German Brazilian model who has worked for Victoria's Secret, Nivea, L'Oreal, Clairol, and Bloomingdales...
.
She was going to be the presenter of Fórum Desenvolvimento Sustentável 2008 but was unable to do so because of her modeling work.
Personal life
Raica Oliveira is a vegetarian and she has stated she has been one her whole life and doesn't feel the urge to eat animal meat.Oliveira speaks Portuguese, English, French, Spanish and Italian. She loves animals. She has eight dogs in her home town . Raica has six tattoo
Tattoo
A tattoo is made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment. Tattoos on humans are a type of body modification, and tattoos on other animals are most commonly used for identification purposes...
s and plans to study philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
at a university when she retires.
She reportedly dated Nat Rothschild in 2008, of the famous banking family, formerly was between 2006 in partnership to Ronaldo
Ronaldo
Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima , commonly known as Ronaldo, is a retired Brazilian footballer who last played for Corinthians. Ronaldo is widely considered to be the greatest 'pure' striker in the history of the modern game, and by some accounts, in the history of football. Ronaldo was one of the...
.