Mexico accuses designer Carolina Herrera of cultural appropriation in new fashion line:
Carolina Herrera walks the runway during New York Fashion Week in September 2016.
The Mexican government has taken issue with Venezuelan fashion designer Carolina Herrera’s latest collection, demanding an explanation for her use of indigenous Mexican designs. The fashion label says its new resort collection “takes on the playful and colorful mood of a Latin holiday” and focuses on “delight-eclectic patterns, unexpected silhouettes, pulsating energy,” according to The Guardian. The line prompted Mexico’s culture minister, Alejandra Frausto, to ask the brand to explain why it is using designs “whose origins are well documented.”
In a letter sent to Herrera and the company’s creative director, Wes Gordon, the culture minister said, “This is a matter of ethical consideration that obliges us to speak out and bring an urgent issue to the UN’s sustainable development agenda: promoting inclusion and making those who are invisible visible,” according to The Guardian.
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