Hecho en México
Our love affair with Mexico extends well beyond the food, art, and culture.
The version of Mexican fashion that travels best is embroidery sold as heritage, which is a shame, because the interesting work in Mexico City right now is reconstruction. Havre Studio buys vintage menswear and recuts it on a woman's frame: the button-back blazer keeps the weight and the shoulder of a borrowed suit while moving the whole closure to the spine, so the front reads as a clean slab. Banzo works the same material with a lighter hand, opening old wool jackets at the sleeve and running ribbon through them, each one a single piece that won't come again. estudio 1999 goes further down the same road, turning thrifted shirting into bustiers and lingerie-adjacent separates, and it's the easiest way into this group. Nin Studio sits apart: heat-pressed pleats, unisex, sculptural enough that the wave-pleated tank dress holds its own shape without you in it. Then the dressmakers. Kris Goyri cuts fluid silk for occasions and lets the ruffled sleeve do the work as you cross a room, Gabrielle Venguer felts her own textiles into coats and fringed knit, Maria Ana makes romantic minis to order, Minena builds nylon bags with a straight face and a ruffled strap. The catch with one-off upcycling is obvious: if your size isn't the size the original jacket was, that's the end of the conversation. These are clothes, not souvenirs.
Hecho en México
Our love affair with Mexico extends well beyond the food, art, and culture.
The version of Mexican fashion that travels best is embroidery sold as heritage, which is a shame, because the interesting work in Mexico City right now is reconstruction. Havre Studio buys vintage menswear and recuts it on a woman's frame: the button-back blazer keeps the weight and the shoulder of a borrowed suit while moving the whole closure to the spine, so the front reads as a clean slab. Banzo works the same material with a lighter hand, opening old wool jackets at the sleeve and running ribbon through them, each one a single piece that won't come again. estudio 1999 goes further down the same road, turning thrifted shirting into bustiers and lingerie-adjacent separates, and it's the easiest way into this group. Nin Studio sits apart: heat-pressed pleats, unisex, sculptural enough that the wave-pleated tank dress holds its own shape without you in it. Then the dressmakers. Kris Goyri cuts fluid silk for occasions and lets the ruffled sleeve do the work as you cross a room, Gabrielle Venguer felts her own textiles into coats and fringed knit, Maria Ana makes romantic minis to order, Minena builds nylon bags with a straight face and a ruffled strap. The catch with one-off upcycling is obvious: if your size isn't the size the original jacket was, that's the end of the conversation. These are clothes, not souvenirs.
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Pinstripe suiting, apron ribbons — the Mexican craft reference lands on a grey wool blazer and somehow holds.
