Get Fashion Advice From Brazilian Top Blogger Alana Ruas Fashion by admin - February 27, 2016October 5, 20210 Name: Alana Ruas Age: 27 years old Born in : Teófilo Otoni, - Minas Gerais (MG) Lives in: Rio de Janeiro Profession: Fashion designer, blogger and occasionally work as a stylist. Tell us a bit about your journey coming to live in Rio de Janeiro I came to Rio as a 15 year old, with the goal to study design in the city later on. In the town that I grew up there were no university courses that offered design, it was only traditional courses like medicine, law and business studies. I entered university at age 17 to study Product Design, however after 5 semesters I switched over to Fashion Design. My way of drawing was more related to fashion and luckily my professors observed this. After