2010 Rose Parade with 65 costumes on and around the Jack-in-the-Box float.1999 Launch of the Kia Motors "Rio" car in Seoul Korea.1998 Honored as a carnaval artist at UCLA in California as an internationally recognized carnaval artist for the world-wide carnaval arts tour.Also in 2016, she moved her studio to Pompano Beach Florida along with a dance and music studio for their group SambaLá Samba School.ĭoris currently is owner and designer for Samba Collection's Alteration shops where she does alterations and tayloring as well as designing and manufacturing of Brazilian-style clothes for SambaLa and her private clients. In 2015, SambaLá Samba School moved to Southern Florida where the school paraded in Boca in 2015, 20, and in Pompano Beach in 2016. In Boca, Doris also started working on alterations fixing clothes for high-end dry cleaners. Doris opened her studio to Boca Raton Florida where she continued make and ship costumes around the world. Siting a schedule conflict, she instead put her display of costumes in the Macy's store in Orange County California near her home.ĭoris posing with some of her costumes during the 2018 SambaLá Parade at the Mizner Amphitheater in Boca Raton Florida (photo by Kellen Cristina In 2014, Doris and her family moved to Boca Raton Florida to be closer to Brazil, to raise her daughter in a more relaxing setting, and to retire from their work with SambaLá Samba School. In 2012, Doris was contacted by Macy's Stores in New York to display her costumes in the Macy's in New York for a big gala opening. Doris, working with the float designer, created 65 unique Brazilian costumes worn by participants on and around the float.
In 2010, Doris was contacted by a float company who was looking to do a Brazilian theme for a float in the world-famous Rose Parade in Pasadena. In 2009, she and her husband David were honored by Regina Caze and Marcelo D2 in front of a half a million people at the 2009 Brazilian Day in New York for their community work with SambaLa Samba School.įrom 1996 to 2010, Doris helped produce the Brazilian Street Carnaval in Long Beach California and in 2011-2012, the Brazilian Day in Los Angeles along with her husband. In 2004, the couple sold the restaurant to start a family. There, they offered Brazilian food, Brazilian drinks, and a weekly samba floor show. She presented her costumes at a talk on the UCLA campus.įrom 2002 to 2004, Doris and David purchased a restaurant where Doris was owner and manager and where the couple created a home base for their samba school SambaLa.
In 1998, Doris was chosen by The University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) to be part of a touring show on the carnaval arts. Her store moved to the downtown Long Beach Mall, and then in Pine Avenue in Long Beach. She sold her creations and designs to dance companies in over 30 countries with many of her creations and designs appearing in parades around the world and on national and international television. Doris created 65 costumes for the Jack-in-the-Box float in the 2010 Rose Parade featuring SambaLa Samba School For the next 20 years, Doris was quite prolific with her costumes selling costumes around the world via her world via her website for Samba Collection.
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