EMperifollada/ Fashionista
In The Chronicles of Narnia, the gateway to the world of magic is a wardrobe. Behind its doors lie witches, talking lions, centaurs, dragons, and dwarves. C.S. Lewis saw the closet as a portal to alternate worlds—wild, enchanting, and treacherous—and he wasn’t wrong. Opening the wardrobe, stepping into a fitting room, means exposing yourself to seductive or terrifying visions. Fears, hopes, joys, and memories are woven into the folds of a shirt or the seams of a pair of pants. A tapestry of emotions and affections unravels through touch, sight, and scent.
As we get dressed, we watch many versions of ourselves flash before us, the ones we could become that day. And as we run our fingers over one piece after another, we asks ourselves—just as Sophie Woodward once did—“Is this me?”
Bienvenidos al reino del emperifolle.
Where theory meets garments, meets history, meets humor, meets family, meets social and ecological justice.
*Just an autistic human, standing in front of a reader, asking them love their special interest.
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Threaded Thoughts
I’ve been writing about the intersection between fashion, history, equity, heritage, identity for at least 10 years. Here are bylines that are the product of that.
I write about it for Eco-stylist, a portal for sustainable fashion, and Bacánika, a magazine about culture and mental health. And sometimes, on my own Medium.
Read about fashion in English here
Read about fashion in Spanish here
Read about it in my Medium here.
*This my literature thesis was done before I started questioning gender in itself, so it focuses in the experiences of femme identifying people.
El Probador:
A brief—and always evolving—collection of the emotions and affects that clothing evokes. It is, at its core, an act of creation and, in a way, a gesture of gratitude and reciprocity to those who allowed me into that deeply personal space.
Stories, illustrations, essays, voice notes, and videos come together like a quilt, a collage that reimagines these states and emotions through lived, borrowed, and imagined experiences. A practice of stitching and restitching—a patchwork, much like the act of getting dressed before a mirror and finding the courage to step out into the world.
Theory thesis here
Multimedia Book here
*This is my literature thesis, and it was done before I started questioning gender in itself, so it focuses in the experiences of femme identifying people.
