Ethniticities Magazine - March Issue 2017
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FASHION<br />
FASHION GETS POLITICAL<br />
POR: NINNA OTTEY<br />
notteymc@gmail.com<br />
For many people in Panama, February is synonym<br />
with carnivals, but for those who are passionate<br />
about fashion, it is the month when the most important<br />
designers from different fashion capitals<br />
like New York, London, Milan and Paris present<br />
their new collections. In this case, the Fall-Winter<br />
<strong>2017</strong>-2018 collection.<br />
As usual, the fashion month started in the city that<br />
doesn’t sleep, New York. With the political tension<br />
arriving Trump’s entrance to the presidency of the<br />
United States, fashion got political.<br />
“Fashion is a sponge in terms of what is<br />
happening in culture”, said the Thai-american<br />
designer Thakoon Panichgul just before<br />
presenting his last collection.<br />
Several brands and designers took seriously<br />
their support of minorities and subordinated<br />
people in America, these being the themes<br />
this year including rebelling against the Muslim<br />
Ban of the new American government.<br />
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