Cultural influences · SS27
Latin America & Caribbean
42 looks from 14 houses drew on Latin America & Caribbean traditions: 1 in 48 shows this season.
Who borrowed it
Every pairing →36 of the 42 looks came from houses based outside the tradition's home country, 36 of them from another region of the world.
- From another region 36
- Home tradition or own region 2
- Can't tell 4
- Ecuador borrowed by houses based in Italy (15), United Kingdom (1)
- Andean borrowed by houses based in Belgium (7), United Kingdom (2), Italy (1)
- Mexico borrowed by houses based in Japan (3), United States (3), Belgium (1), France (1)
- Jamaica borrowed by houses based in Japan (1)
- Wayuu borrowed by houses based in Italy (1)
Which cultures
Share of the region's 42 looks. “Unspecified” when the element is shared across the region.
What kind of reference
The elements
Looks drawing on each, and the houses that showed it- Toquilla straw / panama hat · headwear16 looks
- Alpaca / andean knit · headwear7 looks
- Lucha libre mask motif · motif3 looks
- Charro / sombrero · embroidery / embellishment2 looks
- Chullo / andean knit hat · headwear2 looks
- Sombrero vueltiao / caña flecha weave · headwear2 looks
- Huipil · garment form1 look
- Mesoamerican greca / stepped fret · motif1 look
- Rastafari lion of judah motif · motif1 look
- Sombrero vueltiao · headwear · Zenú, Córdoba/Sucre1 look
- Wayuu tapestry crochet · textile / weave1 look
- Alpaca motif · motif1 look
- Baja / jerga hoodie · garment form1 look
- Chicano / cholo styling · styling / layering · Chicano / Mexican-American1 look
- Divino niño devotional image · motif1 look
- Greca / mesoamerican stepped fret · motif1 look
On the runway
Up to three looks per house, strongest first
Undercover · Look 21 · Paris
- Rastafari lion of judah motif
Japan → Jamaica
“Chest graphic of a crowned lion carrying a flag, the Lion of Judah emblem, encircled by the text 'LOVE RASTAFARI AND LIVE'.”
Yukihero Pro-Wrestling · Look 34 · Tokyo
- Lucha libre mask motif
- Lucha libre mask motif
Japan → Mexico
“Two chest patches show stylised wrestling masks with contrasting eye and mouth outlines and decorative trim, characteristic of Mexican lucha libre masks, rendered as appliqué.”
Garcias · Look 25 · Milan
- Sombrero vueltiao
Base unknown
“Braided caña flecha-style bands in black and cream with geometric (pintas) motifs; the sombrero vueltiao weave reworked into a bucket-hat shape.”
Imane Ayissi · Look 14 · Paris
- Huipil
France → Mexico
“Boxy rectangular untailored tunic with square neckline, all-over woven-look repeat motifs and fringed hem, worn over a full gathered skirt like a huipil-and-enagua ensemble.”
Garcias · Look 13 · Milan
- Divino niño devotional image
Base unknown
“Child figure in pink robe with green sash, arms raised, radiant crown/halo, standing on cloud, Spanish-language arched text: classic Divino Niño Jesús devotional iconography popular in Colombia.”
Dries Van Noten · Look 5 · Paris
- Chullo / andean knit hat
Belgium → Andean
“Burgundy knit hat with small geometric diamond jacquard band and long hanging braided-cord earflap ties in blue patterned knit, characteristic of the Andean chullo construction.”
Dries Van Noten · Look 17 · Paris
- Chullo / andean knit hat
Belgium → Andean
“Knitted hat with geometric jacquard band, ear-flaps ending in long braided blue ties, recalling the Andean chullo.”
Borsalino · Look 6 · Milan
- Toquilla straw / panama hat
Italy → Ecuador
“Fine, dense, even hand-plaited pale straw with a visible spiral starting rosette at the crown, typical of Ecuadorian toquilla palm weaving. The fedora and boater shapes and grosgrain bands are Western.”
Borsalino · Look 41 · Milan
- Toquilla straw / panama hat
Italy → Ecuador
“Finely hand-woven pale toquilla-type straw, concentric weave radiating from crown centre, openwork calado lattice bands on crowns and brim edge typical of Ecuadorian weaving.”
Borsalino · Look 57 · Milan
- Toquilla straw / panama hat
Italy → Ecuador
“Fine, even hand-plaited pale straw radiating in concentric rings from the crown centre, typical of Ecuadorian toquilla-straw Panama hat weaving; pinched fedora crown and wide brim.”
Moschino · Look 31 · Milan
- Alpaca motif
Italy → Andean
“Two appliquéd alpaca/llama silhouettes, one black and one cream, on the bodice; camelids are an emblematic Andean motif.”
Yukihero Pro-Wrestling · Look 21 · Tokyo
- Lucha libre mask motif
Japan → Mexico
“Paired chest patches shaped like full-head wrestling masks: contrasting outlined eye and mouth openings, bold pink/red, purple and blue colour-blocking typical of luchador masks.”
Garcias · Look 30 · Milan
- Sombrero vueltiao / caña flecha weave
Base unknown
“Hat of coiled, braided natural and black strips with geometric diamond and stepped 'pinta' bands, like caña flecha weaving, reshaped into a bucket-hat form.”
Dries Van Noten · Look 60 · Paris
- Alpaca / andean knit
Belgium → Andean
“Chullo-style knit cap with earflaps ending in long braided cord ties and a geometric diamond intarsia band, a recognisable Andean chullo construction.”
Thoro · Look 23 · Mexico City
- Charro / sombrero
Home tradition
“Row of small silver buttons running down the outer side seams of slim black trousers, recalling charro botonadura. Paired with a cropped black jacket. Spanish traje corto is an alternative reading.”
Efecto Perfecto · Look 23 · Mexico City
- Lucha libre mask motif
Home tradition
“Graphic face with outlined eye openings framed by flame and crown points in red and yellow, read as a luchador wrestling-mask design; the flame-panel trousers alone would be generic.”
Dunhill · Look 17 · Milan
- Toquilla straw / panama hat
United Kingdom → Ecuador
“Finely hand-woven pale straw consistent with Ecuadorian toquilla palm weaving, here in a classic Western fedora shape with black grosgrain band.”
Ancellm · Look 18 · Tokyo
- Baja / jerga hoodie
Japan → Mexico
“Coarse woven pullover with fine contrasting horizontal stripes, V-neck hood and kangaroo pocket, the Mexican jerga 'baja' hoodie form, reworked oversized in burgundy with raw edges.”
Paolina Russo · Look 4 · Copenhagen
- Alpaca / andean knit
United Kingdom → Andean
“Chunky hooded zip cardigan with irregular horizontal stripes and embroidered star-flowers, close to Ecuadorian/Andean souvenir knit jackets. Reworked in a greyscale palette.”
Paolina Russo · Look 13 · Copenhagen
- Alpaca / andean knit
United Kingdom → Andean
“Close-fitting striped multicolour knit cap with long earflaps extending into hanging ties, the chullo form; generic earflap beanies also exist.”
Willy Chavarria · Look 68 · Paris
- Mesoamerican greca / stepped fret
United States → Mexico
“Red-on-white stepped-fret meander band on the collar and sleeve cuffs, recalling Mesoamerican greca fretwork (Mitla type). Paired with green-white-red Mexican kit colours.”
Willy Chavarria · Look 70 · Paris
- Greca / mesoamerican stepped fret
United States → Mexico
“Vertical red side band with repeating white stepped-key geometric fret, resembling Mexican greca patterns like Mitla fretwork.”
Willy Chavarria · Look 75 · Paris
- Chicano / cholo styling
United States → Mexico
“Oversized black button shirt over white tee, very wide knee-length trousers, white socks pulled high, Old English-style lettering and red rose graphic.”
Ann Demeulemeester · Look 16 · Paris
- Charro / sombrero
Belgium → Mexico
“Waist-length cropped jacket with rows of silver studs along the fronts and scrolling soutache braid on the sleeves, like a charro jacket. A Spanish Andalusian chaquetilla is an alternative reading.”
The houses
14 houses, by looks drawing on Latin America & Caribbean traditionsFrom another region
- Borsalino · 16 looks · toquilla straw / panama hat, wayuu tapestry crochet Italy
- Dries Van Noten · 7 looks · alpaca / andean knit, chullo / andean knit hat Belgium
- Willy Chavarria · 3 looks · chicano / cholo styling, greca / mesoamerican stepped fret, mesoamerican greca / stepped fret United States
- Paolina Russo · 2 looks · alpaca / andean knit United Kingdom
- Yukihero Pro-Wrestling · 2 looks · lucha libre mask motif Japan*
- Ancellm · 1 look · baja / jerga hoodie Japan*
- Ann Demeulemeester · 1 look · charro / sombrero Belgium
- Dunhill · 1 look · toquilla straw / panama hat United Kingdom
- Imane Ayissi · 1 look · huipil France
- Moschino · 1 look · alpaca motif Italy
- Undercover · 1 look · rastafari lion of judah motif Japan
Home tradition or own region
- Efecto Perfecto · 1 look · lucha libre mask motif Mexico*
- Thoro · 1 look · charro / sombrero Mexico*
House base not recorded
- Garcias · 4 looks · divino niño devotional image, sombrero vueltiao, sombrero vueltiao / caña flecha weave
Where it was shown
Share of each fashion week's looksHow we read it
Read from the runway photographs by our AI tagger: an element counts when it is recognisably drawn from a specific dress or craft tradition and the tagger is at least 60% confident. It describes the clothes only, never the person wearing them, and it is not a statement by the house.
A look is borrowed when the house that showed it is based outside the country the tradition comes from. We compare the house's base (recorded, or inferred from the one national fashion week it shows at) with the tradition the tagger named. Traditions the tagger could only place by region, such as “West African”, count as borrowed only when the house is based outside that region. For Indigenous traditions a house based on the same territory may or may not belong to the community, so those looks are marked “can’t tell”. A house’s base says nothing about its designers’ own heritage, and borrowing is not a verdict: it can be collaboration, homage or appropriation, which the photographs can’t show.