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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-13T09:00:59.000Z",
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    "art.",
    "André Derain",
    "Art",
    "artist",
    "Colour Attraction",
    "fashion",
    "Gennaro Costanzo",
    "Jackie Gallardo",
    "Kees van Dongen",
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    "Mariel Méndez",
    "Nonsense Perfection",
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    "Tamara de Lempicka",
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  "textContent": "Freedom wears many masks, but for women perhaps none feels as instinctive, or as poetic, as the bird, that creature suspended between earth and sky, always half in motion, always just beyond reach. It was already clear in Nelly Furtado’s 2000 hit song, ‘I’m Like a Bird,’ and now in Mariel Méndez’s latest collection that same idea finds a new visual life, where women and birds seem to mirror one another in their longing for lift, softness and self-definition. Speaking to Schön!, Méndez says her work has always been shaped by the spaces between things, and here that in-between feeling becomes especially moving. Growing up sandwiched between the borders of Tijuana and San Diego does strange and wonderful things to a creative mind. Borders teach a person that identity remains layered, fluid and often negotiated on a daily basis. For Méndez, the border was never a simple geographical boundary but rather a continuous state of translation. Navigating two cultures, two languages and completely different aesthetic expectations formed the bedrock of her artistic identity. Today, Méndez operates as the Mexican-American multidisciplinary artist and founder behind MARALOVE. Before launching her clothing brand in 2014, Méndez spent a decade working as a preschool... Read more »\n\nThe post the courage of colour | the borderless world of maralove appeared first on Schön! Magazine.",
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