Designing Mexican Feminism with Barbara Sanchez Kane: Fashion On Air #1 | Polimoda

Barbara Sanchez Kane is a Mexican-born menswear designer who uses conventional ideas of gender, subverts them, and transforms them into garments under her brand Sanchez-Kane. After graduating from Polimoda and then presenting her collection at LA Fashion Week, her most recent work was selected for the FashionClash Festival 2016 in Maastricht. Barbara Sanchez Kane is not only a designer to watch, but also an intriguing person coming from a unique space yet unseen in the industry. Barbara sat down with Sophie Joy Wright at the Villa Favard in Florence, for the first episode of Fashion On Air.

Fashion On Air is an interview series with industry insiders that intentionally avoids the mainstream characters of fashion. These are outsider perspectives from within. By doing things their own way, each person shares their unique experience in the fashion world - from design to business - and their view on the world at large. With this, we find out who they really are, what draws them to their work, and what brings them to beautiful Florence in Italy. _​