Marcella Echavarria - November 26 – December 1, 2025

Origin(al)

Textile Journey — Mexico City

Introduction & Philosophy

The Origin(al) Textile Journey is an immersion into Mexico’s living textile universe — a place where threads carry memory, colors speak of myth, and making is both heritage and future.

To be at Original is to return to the Origin: to the source of knowledge, the hands of artisans, the rituals of weaving and dyeing, the cultural frameworks that give life meaning.

Curated by Marcella Echavarría, the journey invites participants to move between the monumental and the intimate: the stage of the Original fair at Los Pinos and the hidden interiors of studios, homes, and ateliers. It is not about consuming, but about connecting — with origins, with people, and with oneself.

Meet the Curator

Marcella Echavarría is a lifestyle specialist, creative director, and long-time advocate for Indigenous knowledge systems and textile cultures. Her work has always sought to bring audiences back to the origin of things — to the source of beauty, meaning, and craftsmanship.

Her curatorial eye transforms this journey into more than an itinerary: it becomes a loom, weaving encounters, places, and people into a tapestry of insight and belonging.

Spaces & Experiences

  • Casa Luis Barragán: architecture as a return to the origin of light and color.

  • Original at Los Pinos: Mexico’s most ambitious platform for Indigenous artisans and designers, where the origin of textile wisdom is honored and shared.

  • Designer Studios: including Marisol Centeno, Carla Fernández, Cihuá, MA Studio — reinterpreting origins for a global present.

  • Galleries & Concept Spaces: Ago Projects, Onora, Proyectos Monclova, Fundación Marso, Xinu — where tradition and experimentation meet.

  • Southern Icons: Museo Frida Kahlo, Anahuacalli, Casa Estudio Manuel Álvarez Bravo — each a space where memory and creativity find their origin.

  • Artist Encounters: an intimate evening with Pedro Reyes & Carla Fernández, reflecting on art as resistance and regeneration.

Workshops & Encounters

  • A private talk by Martha Turok, leading anthropologist and textile specialist, on textiles as origin stories.

  • Conversations with young artisans at Original, custodians of ancestral techniques.

  • A private dinner at Xinu, evoking origins through botanicals and scent.

  • Curated meals that connect gastronomy back to maize, cacao, chile — the origins of Mexican food culture.

Living Origins:

The Fabric of Mexico

Weaving is creating.

Weaving is inventing.

Weaving is telling a story.

The story of our origin, carried through threads, patterns, colors, and symbols.

Mexico’s textiles are origin stories made visible. Each huipil, each rebozo, each embroidered motif is a portal back to the source — a record of cosmology, community, and continuity.

In this journey, participants are invited to explore these living origins across different realms:

  • Textiles as Memory: Backstrap looms and huipiles hold lineages of knowledge.

  • Design as Dialogue: Contemporary studios translate origins into new expressions.

  • Architecture as Storytelling: From Barragán to Anahuacalli, structures embody the origins of cultural imagination.

  • Gastronomy as Territory: Maize, cacao, chile — culinary origins that define identity and resilience.

  • Art as Resistance & Regeneration: Artists like Pedro Reyes show us that creation itself is a return to origin, an act of remembering and reimagining.

By entering into dialogue with these origins, participants connect not only with Mexico’s cultural fabric but also with their own.

    • Arrivals and hotel check-in.

    • Evening: private visit + dinner at Casa Luis Barragán, with talk by Martha Turok.

    • Morning: gallery circuit (Ago Projects, Onora, Proyectos Monclova).

    • Lunch in Polanco.

    • Evening: VIP Opening of Original at Los Pinos; dinner nearby.

    • Immersion and collecting at Original fair.

    • Afternoon free/spa time.

    • Dinner with young artisans.

    • Visits to Humboldt Building studios: Marisol Centeno, Carla Fernández, Cihuá, MA Studio.

    • Lunch in Colonia Juárez; Fundación Marso cluster (Perla Valtierra, Texture, Candor).

    • Evening: private event + dinner at Xinu.

    • Visits to Frida Kahlo Museum, Anahuacalli, and Casa Estudio Manuel Álvarez Bravo.

    • Evening: gathering with Pedro Reyes & Carla Fernández; farewell dinner.

    • Airport transfers and departures.

Timeline & Schedule

Practicalities & Fees

  • Dates: November 26 – December 1, 2025

  • Price: $2,320 per person (4-day core journey)

  • Includes: curation and guidance by Marcella Echavarría, private local transport, entrances, speakers/hosts, scheduled tastings/workshops, selected meals, airport transfers if desired.

  • Excludes: accommodation, international flights, travel insurance, gratuities, and alcohol (except where noted).