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17 Aug

Photos of blinged-out queers at underground Latin club 2CPerrea

Last weekend, at an industrial estate in Tottenham, people stuck gaffer tape on their nipples and arched their backs. There, a disused automotive garage-turned-warehouse played host to the ascendant club night 2CPerrea, where people wear shirred playsuits and leopard-print belt skirts and skank vests with the word “maricon” (meaning faggot in Spanish) embroidered across their fronts. Staged in collaboration with Popola UK, partygoers whined to the seductive electronica and jacked-up dembow of Latin America’s perreo subculture. “Perreo is about dancing along with your friends and smiling at them. It’s about being free and moving your body,” the night’s organisers explain. “Especially your ass.”“At 2CPerrea, fashion and freedom go together. The main target is on creating the best atmosphere for everybody...
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8 Apr

Latin America’s Luxury Sales Drop After Two-year Boom 

Latin America’s luxury market is predicted to say no this 12 months as soaring inflation and sluggish economic growth hit sales of high-end products, analysts said.  “We'll grow 8 percent this 12 months, which is lower than the 12 percent in 2022 and 20 percent in 2021,” said Abelardo Marcondes, founding father of local consultancy Luxury Lab, adding that this 12 months’s gains will clock in sharply above gross domestic product (GDP). “We've an inflation crisis within the region and within the U.S.  but we'll still manage to grow above the economy.”  This is basically resulting from Mexico’s buoyant sales, Marcondes added, which is able to sharply outpace the remaining of the region’s, gaining 10 percent as a powerful tourism industry and...
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23 Sep

Latin Fashion Professionals Speak on What’s Now and Next

Whether it’s Latin Heritage Month or some other time all year long, Latin designers and fashion creatives are working to open doors for the following crop of creatives with ties to the region. This time, three of those creatives are doing that with an “Into The Industry Workshop” in Latest York City for college kids from Mexico’s Istituto di Moda Burgo. Hosted by designer Nadia Manjarrez of her namesake bridal label, celebrity and editorial makeup artist Mayela Vazquez, and fashion photographer Raul Tovar, the three-day workshop running from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 goals to provide the incoming an inside have a look at the industry. “I'm extremely excited to be doing this workshop for a lot of reasons,” Vazquez said. “All...
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7 Sep

Latin America Is Getting a Latest Event Set to

While the duo behind the Latin American Fashion Summit has been busy bringing the region’s talent to the worldwide fashion industry, their latest endeavor looks to welcome the worldwide fashion industry into the region. Launching with the primary iteration in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from March 13 to fifteen, Raíces by LAFS goals to be a wedding between a networking event and a trade show — but minus the stuffy corporate element and the cavernous convention center vibe. “We’ve noticed after 4 years doing summits that there’s a lot impact that's created if you connect folks that are in the identical industry,” said Estefania Lacayo, cofounder of LAFS, digital networking platform Tribu and now Raíces by LAFS. “People invite them to their country...
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