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Carla Fernández, design label

Poncho Poema, 2018

Description

Maker

  • Carla Fernández, b.1973, Mexican, designer
  • Carla Fernández, 2000-to present, design label
  • Rosa Hernández Lucas, Nahua, textile dyer and embroiderer
  • Mujeres Conservando Raíces, Hueyapan (Puebla, Mexico), dye workshop

Culture

Mexican

Title

Poncho Poema

Year

2018

Medium

Cochineal-dyed cotton plain weave with cotton embroidery

Dimensions

Length: 105.4 cm (41 1/2 inches)

Place

Mexico City

Type

  • Fashion,
  • Costume

Credit

Museum purchase, by exchange

Object Number

2018.41

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Repair and Design Futures

October 5, 2018 - June 30, 2019

Mexican designer and entrepreneur Carla Fernández has deeply researched indigenous textile and garment design. For this piece, she worked with Mujeres Conservando Raíces (Women Preserving Our Roots), a group of dye artisans in southeastern Mexico known for their expertise in harvesting and working with cochineal. A brilliant pink-red dye extracted from cactus-eating insects, cochineal was one of the most valued and exported materials of Mexico’s colonial period.

This garment is a reparative act of indigenous reclamation: Nahua women in the workshop dyed it as an expression of their heritage; the uncut sleeveless-poncho style refers to pre-Hispanic silhouettes; and the embroidered text (“ya llegaron las flores que causan vertigo” / “and the flowers came that cause giddiness”) is from a poem by Nezahualcóyotl (1402–1472), a poet and ruler in pre-Columbian Mexico.

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