Sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy were inspired when they took a long drive from El Paso to Marfa, Texas, got them thinking they might like to explore their Mexican roots. From there, they became interested in the troubled border town of Ciudad Juárez; the hazy, dreamlike quality of the landscape there; and the maquiladora workers going to the factory in the middle of the night. And that, according to the designers, who certainly know how to romance a pitch, led to this conclusion: They'd build a collection off the idea of sleepwalking.
Dresses were patchworked together from floral chiffons, vintage lace, burnout velvets, and other salvaged bits from the imagined maquiladoras' floors and then draped with narrow, twisting swaths of fabric or strands of pearls.
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