Making a Living During the Pandemic in Mexico

The greatest compliment is to see my clients wearing the designs that I have sourced and created.

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The Vintage Huipil and Indigo I bought and then was lovingly sewn by Maria and the interactions that every moment that the sourcing process offers me for just one dress.

The travel, the days in countries that I appreciate with all my heart as I recount this journey and wonder from my safe privileged home, how my chain of supply will look when I am able to return to Mex & Guatemala?

I talked with a dear friend yesterday, it’s code Green in Mex right now but she is only leaving the house for essentials and what repeated in my mind before I went to sleep last night was the other thing that she said: that so many business are still closed, that’s 18 months since I left.

How on earth can you truly survive that long without opening your business?

How does one (or a family) survive without the income they are used to receiving for that long?

I know when I return that I will be faced with these realities and pain, of course the stories of the families that I have know for decades as they pass from their lips to my heart and as it sinks in a thought I don’t like to dwell on. I just wonder how on earth I will manage hearing about so much pain and sadness repeatedly, my clients ask me daily about this.

That’s why I work with all my heart in this incredible country with all its freedom in order to continue to purchase and support those individuals most I have done so since 1997 💔