Category: Fashioning the Environment

There was a buzz in New York City as Spanish clothing firm Zara and the German brand Esprit in December 1989.  

Let me make something clear: I am not obsessed with deserts. I wish I were.

In the heart of northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, I found myself standing among mountains of discarded clothes.

As the bell rang, the elementary school children of the Colegio San Borja in Cusco took front row seats on the sides of the red runway that cut through the school’s interior patio.