Carolina Herrera is confronting the messy reality of cultural appropriation
. “We are going to govern for everyone, but we are going to give preference to the most impoverished and vulnerable,” he told a crowd of thousands of people in Mexico City’s Zócalo.
The promise of the legislation that might follow the cultural ministry’s letter is exciting, if it really does protect the work of indigenous artisans, and provides real tools for them to receive fair wages for their labor. But it’s also likely to confront a messy reality, in which patterns that originated from specific regions and indigenous communities of Mexico have been completely decontextualized and, in the United States retail landscape, absorbed as “mainstream” motifs.
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