MEXICO CITY FASHIONS

Press, Volume C, Issue 29402, 3 January 1961, Page 2

MEXICO CITY FASHIONS

Plans For Special Shows

(X2 Press association—Copgrscnti MEXICO CITY. December 28. The Mexican fashion organisation. Comite de la Moda Femenina Mexican a. is trying to make Mexico the centre of Latin American fashion. Plans are being made to hold special fashion shows and a textile exhibition to turn the on the national industry. Hie idea is not to copy style from Europe but to reflect the Mexican personality in styles, textiles, colours and pattern*. Many of Mexico's most distinguished painters and sculptors will take part in the textile exhibition now being planned jointly bv the Cotnite and the Camara National de la Industrie del Veati do (The National Chamber of the Garment Industry). Some of these artists have designed special textile prints to be seen for the first time at the exhibition and some of the country’s most important cotton mills will be showing new patterns and designs by artists and well-known designers, as well as by some of the younger set designers. who have yet to establish their names in the world of fashion. In both fashions and textiles, the emphasis is wholly on the national product. In the words of Mr Kenneth Rotstinld, former president of the Comite: “with all the wealth of art here in Mexico, the idee of using successful contemporary Mexican artists as a course of colour and original design, should result in w the finest exhibition Mexico has ■■ ever seen.”