The Documentary Podcast
The Documentary Podcast
BBC World Service
In the Studio: Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
26 minutes Posted Feb 10, 2025 at 1:30 am.
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Bárbara Sánchez-Kane is a Mexican fashion designer with eclectic influences - from quinceañera dresses to BDSM harnesses, Jesus's loincloth to lucha libre wrestlers in lingerie. Bárbara revels in the camp and complexity of everyday gender performance. Resisting traditional notions of masculine and feminine, Bárbara creates spaces of tension between these contrasting costumes. We join Bárbara in Mexico City to follow the creation of her next line, from studio sketches to final fittings.