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Byline: RIZA CRUZ editor: Sally Singer
A passion for standing out fires up Latin American style.
From London to Los Angeles, Milan to Mumbai, VOGUE toured eight cities around the globe to find the freshest takes on evening glamour.
Zelika Garcia is helping plan a Pepe Jeans party in two days, for which the guest of honor is onetime company face Sienna Miller. As co-owner and general director of MACO, Mexico's International Contemporary Art Fair, Garcia is quite used to mingling among some seriously stylish crowds. For opening night of last year's fair, Latin America's answer to Art Basel, she wore Pucci. "It's the five days of the year when I need to look my best," says Garcia, casual tonight in Topshop and Marc Jacobs.
Given steep tariffs on designer goods made in China, high fashion can be difficult to come by or simply unavailable, and as a result Mexicanas frequently shop abroad. Earlier that day, Lulu Creel gave me a tour of the fashionable Polanco neighborhood, which revealed a smattering of labels--Gucci, Cavalli, Louis Vuitton--but whose selection is scant, a challenge for a city where "it's an event to really dress up for a party," says Creel, vice president of the philanthropic organization ...