Amanda María Forastieri follows up her award-winning graduate collection with a line that fosters and celebrates interconnectedness.
When you buy a piece from Amanda María Forastieri, you'll receive a description of how it was made, from sketch to production. "I want people to not only engage with it visually, but also engage with it spiritually, so that they then make it something that feels close to them and makes them take care of it," she says.
"[I always felt that] I need to establish a cult following before I go back [to Puerto Rico], because I feel like I can't sustain what I do and what I'm creating," Forastieri says. However, the socio-political and economic reality on the island shifted the timeline: "With the pandemic and the earthquakes, a lot of [the Cooperativa Industrial Creación de la Montaña's] income [has gone] — I saw that this was happening, and that this was more urgent...
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