“For Mexico’s communities, each garment has a profound meaning and a complex crafting process. Thus, through Original, both worlds, which usually are separated, that of tradition and that of fashion, can connect with each other and speak as equals.”⁠
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Designer, meet artisan: your key connection for ensuring cultural appreciation isn’t really cultural appropriation in a thinly veiled mask.⁠
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More than a trade show, Mexico’s secretary of culture Alejandra Frausto Guerrero — who has made a name for herself in fashion by directly calling out designers like Isabel Marant and Louis Vuitton for using techniques and iconography from Mexican creators without credit — called the first iteration of Original “a national cultural movement.”⁠
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Report: @tararielle