Carolina González Castañeda (Kat Azul) is a visual artist. Intern for the degree in Visual Arts at the Faculty of Visual Arts of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León. She is currently a fellow of the CIESAS External Thesis Scholarships Subprogram (2020 class), with the thesis project “Fashion, identity and thrift economy. Preparation, design and resale of vintage type used clothing ”. In 2019 she was the winner of the artistic residency “Spaces in Collision”, awarded by Sitio and the Council for Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León (CONARTE). His artistic project "Topofilia" was exhibited in 2018 at Galería Aparato, and in 2019 exhibited, for conarte and El Móvil, his work "Are you coming home? Or are you going home? Collectively, among others, he exhibited the work “Ucronías”, at the Galería Réplica, in Valdivia, Chile (2019).

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"I Love It Very Much". The Intimate Relation with Garments. The Case of Thrift Fashion

  •  Efrén Sandoval Hernández
  •  Carolina González Castañeda

This article explores the meanings and values given to clothing by women who enjoy a trend we call thrift. In order to capture such meanings and appraisals, we present explanations, narrations and images from exploratory work carried out with thrift clothing retailers and buyers in Monterrey. With the support of images and narrations, we analyze the interaction and the emotional links that retailers and buyers have with clothing. We explain the intimate relation with the garments and the verbal and visual expression of such links, as part of the effort that the thrift community makes to obtain authenticity in the framework of the creation and consumption of clothing.