I grew up in a family of tejedoras.
This Caribbean artistry, memory work, and slow documentation of time, taught me that that tiny textile sculptures can carry stories across waters and generations.
Yarn ties my heart back home.
In my crochet designs, I honor my great-grandmother, Laura and my great-aunt Blanca.
I’m grateful to them and to the master tejedoras of Barceloneta, Borikén, whose hands lend craftmanship to my designs and keep weaving our culture across generations.
Caribbean
In corals, vejigantes, coconuts, shells, and mangrove photo shoots.
In bold colors, hand crochets, and the weaving of ancestry,
fashion becomes storytelling.
It lives in the way fabric folds,
In the way a dress carries a verse from the Island.
In the way a Caribbean model carries that dress.
Identity can be reaffirmed through fashion.
Fashion has been a way for me to carry my Caribbean roots into my practice
to thread memory into material,
and let it speak.
Loudly.
In corals, vejigantes, coconuts, shells, and mangrove photo shoots.
In bold colors, hand crochets, and the weaving of ancestry,
fashion becomes storytelling.
It lives in the way fabric folds,
In the way a dress carries a verse from the Island.
In the way a Caribbean model carries that dress.
Identity can be reaffirmed through fashion.
Fashion has been a way for me to carry my Caribbean roots into my practice
to thread memory into material,
and let it speak.
Loudly.
Será
La Rosa
La Rosa
This collection is inspired by the poem Será la rosa by the great poet from J(Humacao), Borikén (Puerto Rico), Ánjela María Dávila Malavé.
The dresses are an homage, an exploration, and a tactile interpretation of the metaphors, verses, images, light, and shadow that the poet offers and evokes throughout this work of literary and existential art.
The dresses are an homage, an exploration, and a tactile interpretation of the metaphors, verses, images, light, and shadow that the poet offers and evokes throughout this work of literary and existential art.
Profound thanks to Photographers and Art Directors:
Cristian Castellanos
Luis Arrufat Elías
Fernando Blanco
Models:
Maxine Black
Mariel Llaurador
Alexandra Wiscovitch
Adriana Báez
Lourdes Cortéz
Carolina
Nakaira Pérez
Head Seamstress:
Rosie Vega
Jewelry designer collaborator:
Mag Grullón
Photoshoot Assistant:
Elizabeth León
Cristian Castellanos
Luis Arrufat Elías
Fernando Blanco
Models:
Maxine Black
Mariel Llaurador
Alexandra Wiscovitch
Adriana Báez
Lourdes Cortéz
Carolina
Nakaira Pérez
Head Seamstress:
Rosie Vega
Jewelry designer collaborator:
Mag Grullón
Photoshoot Assistant:
Elizabeth León