Pink Love In My Clothes From Mexico
What Inspires Your Personal Style? Nature? Travel destinations? Art and design?
Style, Travel & Design
On architectural details enhancing the aesthetics, function, and identity of a culture.
Outdoor Style & Care
Why is important sun protection no matter your skin type and tone? What’s best, to travel with your culture or with your personality?
—Growing up, living around- and exploring Mexico and diverse cultures in the world, has influenced everything I do as my lifestyle. So this spring we are back in the wild Mexican rainforest, wearing comfortable water sport clothing for better performance without giving up on style.
But first, safety!
Sun protective clothing is important for a full travel adventure. In the rainforest, there’s no exemption to the rule. In my youth, it took me just one painful sunburn in my shins to increase my risk of melanoma, so for me, it’s really not okay to enjoy the sun without protection. What’s my latest favorite sunblock product?
Facial sunscreen powder.
Recently, I’ve been using facial sunscreen powders to provide a natural face cover that also minimizes facial shine. I like to use the brush for its practical and easy application. Its convenient presentation makes it perfect to carry it everywhere too! More advantages:
But first, safety!
Sun protective clothing is important for a full travel adventure. In the rainforest, there’s no exemption to the rule. In my youth, it took me just one painful sunburn in my shins to increase my risk of melanoma, so for me, it’s really not okay to enjoy the sun without protection. What’s my latest favorite sunblock product?
Facial sunscreen powder.
Recently, I’ve been using facial sunscreen powders to provide a natural face cover that also minimizes facial shine. I like to use the brush for its practical and easy application. Its convenient presentation makes it perfect to carry it everywhere too! More advantages:
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There are brands that offer high protection SPF 50+
- Available for all skin types - Easy application - Fragrance free - PABA (para-aminobenzoic acid) free - Non-comedogenic - Non-irritating For a perfect and natural facial coverage, use it evenly over the face, neck and décolleté, at least 20 minutes before sun exposure and whenever necessary. It is recommended to repeat the application every couple hours, after swimming, physical exercise, towel drying, intense sweating or prolonged exposure to the sun. This helps the product to maintain its effectiveness. Overall, personally, I tend to do a mix of both when hitting the road as an explorer. I like to style outfits with several of the cultural influences weaved in my life and personal modern touches. Plus, I always have sunscreen SPF 50 readily available in my purse, especially during spring and summer outdoor activities. Mind that all skin types and tones are susceptible to sun damage. — Viviana M. C. De La Barca |
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—Losing myself swimming down canyons and in the incredible bio diversity of the Mexican rainforest is a dream come true. Mexico is home to some of the most enchanting tropical rainforests in the world that since young it has influenced my fashion and passion for animal print patterns: Ocelote (leopardus pardalis)
and jaguar.— Viviana M. C. De La Barca.
and jaguar.— Viviana M. C. De La Barca.
Textile Art | Spring Patterns
Patterns and motifs are more than just designs; they are stories woven into the threats that adorn our world.
Some of the most common types of patterns to take reference include floral and animal patterns with a rich history of symbolic meanings that have been used for decorative and spiritual purpose in the Mexican tradition, as that of the vanilla orchids or the jaguar.
Geometric patterns have their origins dating back to ancient times with shapes like squares, triangles and circles to form designs that are regularly repeated in the architecture of the ancient pyramids around Mexico.
There are a surprising number of links between the textile creations of the past and those of the present, since patterns and color combinations come back recurrently. This as a reminder of how the habits of nostalgic renewal and international borrowing are both old and widespread in our world’s tapestry of cultures. Naturally, fashion playing an important role — continuously affected by technical progress and trade.
London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is home to some of the finest, most beautiful and rarest examples of human creativity in the decorative arts. Their collection of interior textiles and fabrics includes from Indian chintzes to Persian rugs. The V&A is a great source of inspiration and education.
London's Victoria and Albert Museum has exhibited Mexican huipils showing paint splatters and cotton skirts with printed floral motifs and ruffles, once part of Jewish Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo wardrobe. The artist’s clothing in the exhibits included examples of traditional Mexican dress – from Mexican indigenous textiles to rebozos (fringed shawls), embroidered huipiles (square-cut tops), enaguas (skirts) and holanes(flounces) — as well as her art to develop a sense of belonging and personal identity.
Other motifs from around the world in The V&A include from the sinuous necks of cranes embroidered in mid-19th-century Japan echoing the herons and swans of a modern 1939 creation by graphic artist Edward Bawden. Pomegranates appearing again and again, from seventeenth-century Turkey to late-nineteenth-century Britain. Originating in Persia, the ever-popular paisley motif of flowers growing on a curved stem appears in Iran transformed as a bird on an upholstery fabric in the 1960s. Whether realistic or stylized, birds and flowers are rarely out of fashion.
So this spring it couldn’t be any different to look at some of the most prominent motifs and colors featuring in our wardrobe palette, influenced by nature and trends of our days.
Some of the most common types of patterns to take reference include floral and animal patterns with a rich history of symbolic meanings that have been used for decorative and spiritual purpose in the Mexican tradition, as that of the vanilla orchids or the jaguar.
Geometric patterns have their origins dating back to ancient times with shapes like squares, triangles and circles to form designs that are regularly repeated in the architecture of the ancient pyramids around Mexico.
There are a surprising number of links between the textile creations of the past and those of the present, since patterns and color combinations come back recurrently. This as a reminder of how the habits of nostalgic renewal and international borrowing are both old and widespread in our world’s tapestry of cultures. Naturally, fashion playing an important role — continuously affected by technical progress and trade.
London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is home to some of the finest, most beautiful and rarest examples of human creativity in the decorative arts. Their collection of interior textiles and fabrics includes from Indian chintzes to Persian rugs. The V&A is a great source of inspiration and education.
London's Victoria and Albert Museum has exhibited Mexican huipils showing paint splatters and cotton skirts with printed floral motifs and ruffles, once part of Jewish Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo wardrobe. The artist’s clothing in the exhibits included examples of traditional Mexican dress – from Mexican indigenous textiles to rebozos (fringed shawls), embroidered huipiles (square-cut tops), enaguas (skirts) and holanes(flounces) — as well as her art to develop a sense of belonging and personal identity.
Other motifs from around the world in The V&A include from the sinuous necks of cranes embroidered in mid-19th-century Japan echoing the herons and swans of a modern 1939 creation by graphic artist Edward Bawden. Pomegranates appearing again and again, from seventeenth-century Turkey to late-nineteenth-century Britain. Originating in Persia, the ever-popular paisley motif of flowers growing on a curved stem appears in Iran transformed as a bird on an upholstery fabric in the 1960s. Whether realistic or stylized, birds and flowers are rarely out of fashion.
So this spring it couldn’t be any different to look at some of the most prominent motifs and colors featuring in our wardrobe palette, influenced by nature and trends of our days.
Spring Patterns 2025
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Spring Patterns 2025
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Spring Patterns 2025
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Spring Patterns 2025
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Spring Patterns 2025
Jade has been associated with life and renewal by the indigenous civilizations in Mexico.
The Olmec civilization flourished in the Preclassical Mesoamerica from c. 1200 BCE to c. 400 BCE. Their heartlands were the region of the Gulf of Mexico which are today the state of Veracruz and Tabasco.
The jaguar's symbolism is also prominently featured in Olmec as Mayan art and architecture in Mexico.
The Olmec civilization flourished in the Preclassical Mesoamerica from c. 1200 BCE to c. 400 BCE. Their heartlands were the region of the Gulf of Mexico which are today the state of Veracruz and Tabasco.
The jaguar's symbolism is also prominently featured in Olmec as Mayan art and architecture in Mexico.
by Viviana M. C. De La Barca