Mexican designers work local tradition into their pieces

“From a distance, the black woolen jacket created by fashion designer Carla Fernandez looks like a simple, ordinary blazer. The difference is in the details: bright, multicolored dots embroidered to a piece that combines age-old Indian sewing techniques with an innovative, modern cut.

Fernandez, one of six designers at the Local clothing boutique in Mexico Citys trendy Condesa neighborhood, works with women in the southern Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca to create a product that is local in its use of indigenous design, but also made for a modern woman who wants something stylish.”

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