Archives: Portfolio
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Redressing Fashion With Politics: A Historical Overview
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Fashion is an essential aspect of everyday life. This aspect, perhaps, has lead us to understand fashion as vain, superficial, unimportant. But fashion is at the center of multiple historical […]
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Fashion in 18th-Century Colonial Spanish America: An Interview in Sew What?
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Isabella Rosner interviewed me for her podcast, Sew What? We talked about my research on the consumption, dissemination, and representation of dress and practices of self-fashioning in 18th-century colonial Spanish […]
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Poulaines or Crakows Were Worn in the Middle Ages, but Not to Enforce Social Distancing
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I was interviewed by AFP Colombia about the crakows —or poulaines—, an elongated type of shoe that was worn in the Middle Ages. With the rise of the Covid-19 pandemic, […]
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Design for Dissent: Political Participation and Social Activism in the Colombian Fashion Industry
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In recent years, Colombia has experienced a renewed interest in social, political, and humanitarian issues, within a stormy political climate marked by the signing of a peace agreement in 2016 […]
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#KIMOHNO: Denying Culture to Create Fashion
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Luz Lancheros interviewed me about Kim Kardashian’s brand Kimono as a case of cultural appropriation. We talked about the problems that arise from taking inspiration from other cultures without recognizing […]
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Unravel CSA Series: What’s the Deal with Spanish Colonial Dress? with Laura Beltran-Rubio
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Joy Davis interviewed me at the Costume Society of America’s Annual Symposium in Seattle for the third episode of the Unravel 2019 Costume Society of America Series. We talked about […]
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Portraits and Performance: Dress and the Culture of Appearances in the Eighteenth-Century Viceroyalty of New Granada
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During the eighteenth century, there was an increased interest in the Spanish World for French fashions and imported luxury goods, sparked by both the establishment of the Bourbon dynasty in […]
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‘M’ is for mantón de manila
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The mantón de Manila (Manila shawl) is one of the most symbolic elements of hispanic dress that, in recent history, has become an almost essential garment in museum collections of […]