Loose Thoughts No. 1 - How do I even begin?

In this mini-episode, I reflect on questions like: How do we even begin to think about fashion in Latin America, when the word itself is so often detached from the region? How do we think about it, when we’re used to believing that fashion is superficial, vain, pretty—but never substantial? How do we do it in our own terms, when most narratives, ideas, and histories circle around the same names —at times extremely difficult for us to pronounce— of a few, most of them foreign and quite distant from our local realities?

**This was first published as an audioblog on January 25, 2021.

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