Tales of the Asphalt Flower

“Tales of the Asphalt Flower” is a fashion documentary captured across various locations in Mexico, telling the story of the everyday urban landscape. Through this collection, sustainable fashion becomes a language of identity and resistance.

Tales of the Asphalt Flower is a fashion documentary captured across various locations in Mexico. The series explores emotional landscapes and personal histories, focusing on spaces that are familiar to me, revealing their complexity and beauty. Growing up, I was taught that the spaces I inhabited were neither dignified nor important. Yet the reality for many Mexicans tells a different story: a rich cultural heritage, history, and fashion coexist with complex social realities of violence, corruption, and injustice. Tales of the Asphalt Flower navigates this tension. I do not seek to romanticize these spaces; instead, I explore them with dignity and curiosity, creating new stories inspired by magical realism.

The series stems from collaborations with Mexican creators of diverse styles, from artisanal garments crafted with techniques from the Oaxacan coast, to the work of designers and stylists who embody the city and challenge the prevalent conservative values of the region.

The spaces portrayed are not anonymous, they are close, intimate, and deeply connected to my life and those of the people involved. Within the photographs you can find the market where my family has worked as merchants since my birth, the facades and streets that surround my apartment, the house of a close friend, and even the small corners of my own backyard. These are not abstract or borrowed narratives; they are lived-in spaces, filled with the weight of daily life. I want to tell my story, using sustainable fashion as a tool that brings layers of magic into reality. For me, fashion is not about consumerism. It is about expression, about exploring identity, about weaving together the threads of past and present. Fashion speaks of a pre-Hispanic past that continues into our present; it confronts its environment, resists invisibility, and reclaims space.

Cities are not static backdrops; they are living entities. The urban landscape carries memory, pain, joy, resilience, death, and life. Nothing is accidental, every facade bears a color chosen by someone with intention. Tales of the Asphalt Flower seeks to find order in this urban jungle, to highlight the contradictions of spaces that are at once fragile and powerful.

This work is, in the end, a love letter to the richness of urban textures and to the people who give them meaning.