For many years, when visiting Mexico City, Olivia Villanti would visit Gilly e Hijos—the 30-year-old shirting and fabric studio owned and run by her husband’s family—to trawl through the immense archive of beautiful deadstock fabrics her husband’s uncle, Bruno Gilly Armand, collected over three decades. The treasure trove in the studio, located just steps from CDMX‘s sprawling Bosque de Chapultepec, provided Villanti with an abundance …
CDMX-based menswear label Hermanos Koumori references Mexican modernism, esotericism and, surprisingly, the sport of running in each of their collections. Their newest line, fittingly called Ancient Runners, features graphic T-shirts adorned with exercise instructions and ancient riddles, pants in unique silhouettes and a coat they refer to as the “World Champion’s Jacket.” Cut from 100% cotton raw denim and constructed in CDMX, every jacket comes …
As the Earth made its way around the sun, our team of staffers and contributors traversed the globe in search of inspiration and the stories that come from diverse, in-depth experiences. We are more conscious than ever of the traumas imparted on the environment by long-haul flights—and this has only made the travel we commit to all the more valuable as we aim to reduce …
