CARLA_M From 2026 to Eternity Color Catalogue (Horizontal Spread)

In 2009 Carla Matos decided to change her professional career and embrace jewelry as a way to express her creativity and passion for design. Her work comes from a constant search for new aesthetic and functional values in unusual materials: rubber, plastics, acrylic, steel, carbon fiber, and other industrial components. She draws inspiration from materials by observing them not for their current form, but for the potential they possess. Matter inspires her to create jewelry. From the beginning, she defied traditional notions of what jewelry is supposed to be. The upcycling approach emphasizes concept and meaning over economical value, producing pieces with inherent emotional worth. Carla_M. is synonymous with original designs and comfortable pieces that never fail to catch everyone’s attention. If it’s Carla_M, then you’ll know it is high-end synthetic jewelry. Jewelry . Carla_M Jewelry (https://www.instagram.com/carla_m_jewellery) Art Direction . Carla Matos/Paulo Valente Photography . Paulo Valente (www.instagram.com/paulovalente.art) Styling . Carla Matos (https://www.instagram.com/bycarlamatos) Model . Vera Iurciuc (https://www.instagram.com/vera_iurciuc) Make-up . Lu| Makeup & Hair in Paris (https://www.instagram.com/lu.makeuparis) Graphic concept . Paulo Valente

In 2009 Carla Matos decided to change her professional career and embrace jewelry as a way to express her creativity and passion for design. Her work comes from a constant search for new aesthetic and functional values in unusual materials: rubber, plastics, acrylic, steel, carbon fiber, and other industrial components. She draws inspiration from materials by observing them not for their current form, but for the potential they
possess.
Matter inspires her to create jewelry.
From the beginning, she defied traditional notions of what jewelry is supposed to be. The upcycling approach emphasizes concept and meaning over economical value, producing pieces with inherent emotional worth. Carla_M. is synonymous with original designs and comfortable pieces that never fail to catch everyone’s attention.
If it’s Carla_M, then you’ll know it is high-end synthetic jewelry.

Jewelry . Carla_M Jewelry (https://www.instagram.com/carla_m_jewellery)
Art Direction . Carla Matos/Paulo Valente
Photography . Paulo Valente (www.instagram.com/paulovalente.art)
Styling . Carla Matos (https://www.instagram.com/bycarlamatos)
Model . Vera Iurciuc (https://www.instagram.com/vera_iurciuc)
Make-up . Lu| Makeup & Hair in Paris (https://www.instagram.com/lu.makeuparis)
Graphic concept . Paulo Valente