Barbara Sanchez-Kane, Mexican menswear designer with a background in industrial engineering, debuts at NYFW Men’s SS18. I think I specialize in menswear because I have a background in engineering — a world with more rigid and stable shapes — what I see in the male body,” says she.
She launched her label Sanchez-Kanein 2015 after graduating with a degree in fashion design from the Polimoda Institute in Florence, Italy.Her Spring/Summer 2016 debut collection, “Courage of the Brave,” was presented during Los Angeles Fashion Week. She also showed as a finalist at VFILES Runway 7 during New York Fashion Week.
Sanchez-Kane draws on her Mexican heritage to create alternate realities, reimagining masculinity in a world where that has become somewhat stringent. Her “Citizen Sanchez-Kane” collection, for examples, aims to create new vision of masculinity— less restricted by today’s perimeters of hyper-masculinity, emasculation and male sensitivities and imagining a world wherein Eve, not Adam, is the first creation.
