London Calling in Mexico: Morgana

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By Marina Garcia-Vasquez in New Fashion on Tuesday 15 June 2010

British fashion designers Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen are known the world over for their theatrics on the catwalk, but such displays of artistic fashion are unconventional for Mexico. So when designer Mauro Babún unveiled his Morgana Fall 2010 line at DFashion week with all the eerie pomp and circumstance of a McQueen show, the audience gleaned the pasarela melodrama.

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Mexico’s first house of macarons

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By The Urban Grocer in Cool Travel on Friday 11 June 2010

Stunning reds, blues, and yellows pop brightly against the stark white interior at Theurel & Thomas: Mexico’s first and only house of macarons. Located in the Northeastern city of Neuvo Leon, this authentic French patisserie is gaining accolades for its traditional, tasty macarons in flavors like raspberry, pistachio, chocolate, and coconut. But the design of this elegant boutique too is garnering heaps of attention.

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Stateside shantytown

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By Francis Andrews in Architecture on Thursday 8 January 2009

US architect Teddy Cruz has long focused on what architecture can learn from informal settlements. His latest project aims to build residential areas in various parts of the US that mimic the Shantytowns of Tijuana, Mexico. He’s already pitched proposals for a site in the Hudson Valley, New York, and has now shifted focus to [...]

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Sugar by name

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By Zolton in New Illustration on Sunday 10 August 2008

Sugar by name, Sugar by … well, so it goes. And so she goes, the Australian artist nomadically, restlessly traveling the globe in search of inspiration, persperation and a different menu each night of the week. Such is the life. We interviewed Sugar recently: You’re in Mexico? I never quite know where you’ll be next. What brings you there? ‘I know! Since we have started communicating in 2006, I have lived in Melbourne, Zurich, Barcelona, London, Buenos Aires and now in Mexico. It is crazy but I love it’.

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Knuckleheads

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By Gerry Mak in Cool Websites on Monday 2 June 2008

Knuckleheads is a pretty fun little side scrolling game where you’re a pair of Mexican-wrestler-looking things attached to each other by a chain. You swing each other around to move and hit floaty capsule things for points, and you can change the length of the chain to get over various obstacles, but watch out for [...]

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Nestle Factory

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By Gerry Mak in Cool Travel on Saturday 17 November 2007

Mexican architect Michel Rojkind was asked to design new spaces for the Nestle chocolate factory outside Paseo Tollocan.

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