Moda Hoy Symposium | Popular Culture and Fashion

Brenda Equihua and Bárbara Sánchez-Kane in conversation with Tanya Meléndez-Escalante about Popular Culture and Fashion at the fashion symposium ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion, held on October 7, 2022. PLEASE NOTE: Due to copyright considerations, two video clips were removed from this video. The symposium explored the work of fashion designers of Latin American heritage, shedding new light on Latin American and Latinx fashion. Topics included politics, sustainability, art, Indigenous heritage, gender, and popular culture. Brenda Equihua studied Fashion Design at Parsons School of Design, The New School. Founded in 2016, her eponymous brand, Equihua, is a forward-thinking Latinx luxury brand born out of folklore and refined artistry. Bárbara Sánchez-Kane is a Mexican fashion designer and artist who resists traditional notions of Mexican machismo through her ethos of the macho sentimental: a person who does not deny their natural impulses towards feminine and masculine forms of expression. Whether using her unisex fashion label Sánchez-Kane, or her installation, painting, performance, poetry, and sculpture practices, all of her works question hegemonic masculinity, the social construction of gender and sexual identity, and the ways in which each present themselves in daily life. Tanya Meléndez-Escalante is senior curator of education and public programs at The Museum at FIT. She is a contributing author to the books La comedia y el melodrama en el audiovisu