Silver Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design · 2025
Huazolo Aphrodites Embroidered Clothing
- A' Design Award 2025 Silver Winner in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
- Awarded April 15, 2025
- CLIENT: Ensamble Artesano and Niu Matat Napawika
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 212,743
- Verification code E9E88BBB15 · Verify this award
About Huazolo Aphrodites Embroidered Clothing
This project consisted of working together between the indigenous embroidery master craftsmen of Oaxaca Mexico and the designers, creating designs that integrated identity, symbology, and techniques of indigenous communities with the designers vision in a contemporary fashion product. By merging ancestral methods such as zero waste with modern aesthetics, the project highlights the cultural significance of the artisans’ work while providing economic opportunities and showcasing the beauty of their craft in the contemporary design landscape
Cynthia Gómez Ramírez's Huazolo Aphrodites Embroidered Clothing emerges from a rich tradition of textile artistry that bridges ancestral craft knowledge with contemporary fashion expression, creating garments that function simultaneously as wearable art and cultural preservation vessels. The collection demonstrates remarkable technical achievement in its integration of hand-embroidered geometric motifs that speak to indigenous visual vocabularies while maintaining relevance within international fashion discourse. The compositional presentation itself merits consideration, employing dual figures in hierarchical arrangement that suggests both continuity and distinction between interpretations of the design philosophy, perhaps representing the transmission of cultural knowledge across generations or the multivalent expressions possible within a unified aesthetic vision. The chromatic strategy proves particularly sophisticated in its juxtaposition of the saturated crimson environment against the neutral black garments, allowing the intricate embroidery details and the elaborate textile headdresses to command appropriate visual attention without competing against excessive chromatic complexity. The designer appears to engage with questions of cultural identity, feminine strength, and the preservation of artisanal techniques within contemporary creative practice, suggesting that traditional craft methods retain vital relevance and expressive power when thoughtfully recontextualized. The elaborate headdresses deserve particular attention as sculptural achievements in their own right, transforming textile craft into three-dimensional floral abstractions that crown each figure with botanical splendor. Viewers might contemplate how such work participates in broader conversations about sustainable fashion, cultural heritage preservation, and the capacity of clothing to communicate identity, values, and aesthetic philosophy beyond mere function.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- This was a collaboration project with the embroiderers Huazolo Aphodites, with the aim of keeping artisanal production alive and preserving the ancestral textile techniques of the community of Santa María Huazolotitlán, Oaxaca, Mexico. It consisted of working together between the designers and the indigenous embroidery master craftsmen,creating a proposal that integrated identity, symbology, and techniques of indigenous communities with the designer's vision in a contemporary fashion product
- Dimensions & Packaging
- poncho 90 cm x 120 cm
blouse 60 cm x 60 cm
dress 90 cm x 80 cm - Tags
- collaboration, indigenous communities, embroidery, heritage, traditions, sustainable, fashion
- Production Technology
- The exchange of knowledge between artisans and designers was achieved, exalting embroidery techniques, promoting sustainability by using local textiles and inputs, as well as managing zero waste in clothing using squares and rectangles for each pattern, based on the traditional indigenous huipil technique.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge was to generate empathy and communication with the indigenous communities since they were more than 1000 km from Mexico City.
We had many meetings to be able to delve into their culture and understand what was most relevant to them in terms of their techniques and silhouettes, so that together we could design garments with which they could identify and produce.
The other challenge was to find sustainable silhouettes and local materials. - Project Duration
- The project started in March 2023 and finish in February 2024
- Operation Flow
- They are easy to handle garments, as they are made from squares and rectangles.
- Research
- It all started with an immersion with the artisans, to understand their culture, clothing, and techniques they used since past times.
Several meetings were held, sharing the symbols they use; seeking empathy, understanding how relevant textiles are for them.
We crossed many design ideas, until reaching the final proposal, using rhombuses and animals of the region that are part of their embroidery, but fusing them with topography of the place to connect with the contemporary designs. We promote sustainability with zero waste in patterns through the interpretation of their huipil which is made from rectangles. - Inspiration
- We immersed ourselves in the community to learn about its culture, identity, traditions, as well as its clothing and textile techniques. They shared with us the meaning of the symbols they embroider, such as the multicolored rhombuses that show the days of the week and the animal figures that represent the fauna of the region.
The designs took as inspiration the topography of the town, representing the intersections of its streets in diamond and the fauna amplified and segmented in the design - Image Credits
- Photographer Silvestre Garcia
Hairstylist Ignazio Muñoz
Makeup artist Ian Bautista
Models Diana Ortiz and Aislynn Diana
Stylist Vanesa Bojalil
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