Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today - ¡Moda Hoy!

Tanya Melendez-Escalante is senior curator of education and public programs at The Museum at FIT. She is a contributing author to the books La comedia y el melodrama en el audiovisual iberoamericano contempora´neo (2015) and Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color (2018). She curated the exhibitions Eterno Femenino (2017) in León, Mexico; Julia y Renata: Moda y Transformación (2020) at the Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Zapopan, Mexico; and the 2023 exhibition ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today at The Museum at FIT. Melissa Marra-Alvarez is curator of education and research at The Museum at FIT. She curated the exhibitions Minimalism/Maximalism (MFIT, 2019) and Force of Nature (MFIT, 2017) and co-curated Fashion & Politics (MFIT, 2009). Marra-Alvarez is co-curating the 2023 Museum at FIT exhibition ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today. Her publications include Food and Fashion (Bloomsbury, 2022), Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch (2015), and Dance and Fashion (2013).

Foreword by Valerie Steele
Foreword by Regina Root
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction by Tanya Meléndez-Escalante and Melissa Marra-Alvarez

2. Latin America on Global Fashion Scene in the Twentieth Century by William Cruz Bermeo
Case Study: Luis Estevez Evening Set by William Cruz Bermeo

3. Indigenous Heritage in Latin American Fashion by Laura Beltrán-Rubio
Case Study: 1/8 Takamura Cuadro Tlahui Blouse by Melissa Marra-Alvarez

4. Fashion and Art: Trans-discipline and Cultural Capital in the Work of Designers of Latin American Heritage by Tanya Meléndez-Escalante
Case Study: Rick Owens Tecuatl Ensemble by Tanya Meléndez-Escalante

5. Charting Multiple Paths to Sustainability in Latin American and Latinx Fashion by Melissa Marra-Alvarez
Case Study: Zero + Maria Cornejo for Hyundai Set by Melissa Marra-Alvarez

6. Rethinking Fashion as a Political Act: Challenges and Possibilities in Latin American Dressing Resistances by Hanayrá Negreiros
Case Study: Carla Fernández Adelita Ensemble by Elena Pérez-Ardá López

7. Ropa sin género: Contemporary Latinx and Latinomerican Genderless Fashion by Alexis Carreño
Case Study: Sánchez-Kane Mamado Pantsuit by Tanya Meléndez-Escalante

8. Latin American Elegance: An Intercultural Dialogue by Ana Elena Mallet
Case Study: Esteban Cortázar Flamenco Dress by William Cruz Bermeo

9. Pop Cultural References in Twenty-first Century Latinx Fashion by Michelle McVicker
Case Study: Equihua Devotion Coat by Elena Pérez-Ardá López

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