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In closing the main fashion show of the year in Rio, the fashion was the least of: everyone's attention was focused on the model, a transgender actress.


Patricia Araujo received a standing ovation after his passage through the gateway for the home fashions B Complex on Friday night at the close of a week of fashion in the city that rejoices in the world with his shock of Carnival celebrations.


Designer B Complex, Beto Neves, said Araujo was a parade to surprise the audience.


"In fashion, the most surprising is cool," he told the daily O Dia.


Globo Television on its website called Araujo, 25, the star of the last parade, and the model Isabeli Fontana told O Dia that Araujo is the biggest. "


Tall and slender, Araujo went to the catwalk wrapped in a long sacón the skin, which was quickly stripped to reveal a black and white short dress to the applause of the hundreds of presents.


"I love that I stormed the press," he said then O Dia. "I always dreamed of being famous."


The legal name of the model is Patricia Oliveira. Araujo is the artistic name.