If you should ever want to do a world tour following the best street art and murals, Mexico City will have to be on your itinerary. With artworks on virtually every corner, the city is a have of street art. A great guide to the plethora of artworks would be the project, The Art of Dressing to Match by Mexican fashion designer Melania Chavarría. It has become hugely popular and caused quite a stir on Instagram (@ matching.melania). Melania poses in bright, colourful outfits in areas around Mexico City. Most of the backgrounds are murals made by urban artists.
Melania was born and raised in Mexico City into a family dedicated to architecture. Her dad has a construction firm so she literally grew up surrounded by a language that shaped her interest into the city’s profile, as well as other expressions defining it such as design, arts and culture. Ever since she was little, she had liked fashion. Her mom would buy magazines so she started looking at them and admiring the power and possibilities of design, especially through the images created for ad campaigns and editorials. She remembers starting to explore fashion trends on my own self from a very young age. "My family was always supportive on that, they even encouraged me to express freely and not to care about what people thought of the way I looked or dressed, that was very important to me and I think that you can see that learning process manifested into everything I do today." Choosing to study fashion design was a very natural decision for her. "I think there’s a clear link between fashion and architecture, they have a familiar language, I feel that fashion is my own version of building, not around the city but over the body."
We had a chat with her about the Matching Melania project.