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\u201cTextile miracles happen sometimes\u201d… That\u2019s how Francisco Cancino opened a conversation about his new collection, referring to the access he had this season to a bank of silk fabrics. Yes, the materials in this delivery are \u201cvery fine,\u201d but with Cancino, things go deeper than a lucky textile break. There is always a need to say something, that recurring instinct to filter Mexican history and memory through contemporary clothing.<\/p>\n
While he previously turned to Nietzsche to explore internal monsters, here the Chiapas-born designer draws from Jorge Luis Borges and his book The Aleph<\/em>, which explores that point in space and time where all things coexist at once. Borges\u2019s book gave Cancino a reason to revisit his own work, not as an act of self-homage, but with a purpose as philosophical as it is practical: taking pieces from his existing catalog and \u201cbringing them to life and bringing them to life and bringing them to life.\u201d<\/p>\n The result is a collection that feels especially vibrant, with a sense of movement amplified by saturated primary colors, sharp proportions, and silk fabrics that give the clothes a constant fluidity.<\/p>\n For a couple collections now, Cancino has been navigating the tension between his itch for an artistic brand and the fact that, at the end of the day, he sells ready-to-wear. With this collection he seems more at ease; the tension no longer feels like tension, but balance.<\/p>\n Perhaps because of that ease, he has allowed himself new creative liberties, which include a new fascination with the bustle. He applied the very contemporary obsession with exaggerating certain parts of the body \u2014 in his case influenced by Alexander McQueen \u2014 to Mexican denim, which resulted in looks that feel deeply romantic, something relatively new in the Cancino universe, yet entirely of the moment. \u201cI was thinking about the permissions I give myself when talking about Mexico, and well, Mexico had the City of Palaces, bustles walking down Reforma, you know? It\u2019s a way of talking about history but with a pair of jeans. They look fascinating.\u201d<\/p>\n Yes, they really do. Like Borges\u2019 Aleph<\/em>, the collection holds multiple worlds: romance and utility, history and modernity, artistic instinct and commercial clarity. In Cancino\u2019s hands, they no longer feel like opposing forces, but part of the same language.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n