Carla Fernández has returned to a conventional runway format after a quick absence from Mexico Style Week—not that it put a pause on her creativity. At present, her work is on exhibition at La Galerie du19M, Chanel’s Metiers d’Artwork Centre in Paris.
For spring she named her assortment Teocintle—the title given for the ancestor of corn—and acknowledged the significance of corn and bugs within the gastronomy of Mexican tradition. The items, in collaboration with artisans, search to be a part of a present and related dialog across the safety of native crops somewhat than the consumption of genetically modified corn. “We should always be taught so much from the slow-food motion,” she stated. “Style additionally must be executed that means.”
Silhouettes went to a different stage with prints created by multidisciplinary artist Andros Hernández, who illustrated a universe of planets within the shapes of tlayudas, totopos, and tortillas, three Mexican dishes created from corn. Grasshoppers, generally eaten in Mexico, additionally got here into play. “It is about going again to the native,” Fernández added. She pushed this concept with ample sleeves modeled after baskets. “You’ll be able to even go to the market and use them.”
