Photo credit: Carolina Vargas

EM:  Occupation and Position.
Owner and designer of Pituqui-Pinaqui

EM: What neighborhood do you closely identify with?  What makes your community so unique?

In general simply that we are far away, really in the south, almost at the end and that we are a small market (Santiago, capital of Chile). My neighborhood is somewhere between “Bellas Artes” and “Vitacura.”

EM: What’s the greatest item that you found at your local garage/estate sale?
I could say that we have a great Korean – Chinese market call “Patronato”
and a great street call “Bandera” full of second hand (selected and unselected) clothes but here defiantly the local crafts are unique over all, there are a lot of craft spots near “Bellavista”

EM:  If you could interview one unsung hero, who would it be? Why?
Coco Chanel, a strong woman how changed the fashion history

EM:  What’s your favorite youtube video.
A video made with friends of my last collection for Pituqui-Pinaqui during a fashion shoot

EM: Where are your favourite local spots to eat?
Here in Santiago we have a great fashion museum with a little restaurant & café call “El Garage” that’s perfect for tourists: www.museodelamoda.cl

EM: What songs are at the top of your playlist at this very moment?
My boyfriend is a DJ, I really have on the top his whole radio program: www.privat.cl

EM:  What is your current bedside read?
50 Questions About Fashion by Frederic Monneyron edited in Spanish by Gustavo Gili editorial.  The original title in Spanish is La mode et ses enjeux

EM: What is your favourite city to visit when you travel abroad? And why?
NYC, so full in every way!

EM: What new projects you are building on right now?
Mmm, growing as a designer and always looking for new challenges.

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via Emilio Marin, 29 January 2009 6:00am | 2 |