Mexican fashion designer sports Gulf of Mexico T-shirt on NY Fashion Week runway 

Mexican manner decorator Patricio Campillo sported a bold T-shirt displaying the words “El Golfo de México” (The Gulf of Mexico) astatine his Feb. 7 New York Fashion Week (NYFW) show.

Campillo walked connected signifier pursuing his “Fictions of Reality” fall-winter 2025 postulation amusement wearing a emblematic Mexican tourist-style T-shirt displaying the words “The Gulf of Mexico” and a bosom made up of 8 dolphins, arsenic good arsenic a Mexican flag. He paired it with wide khaki pants and achromatic boots.

It was viewed by galore arsenic a signifier of protestation against U.S. President Donald Trump’s signing of an enforcement order connected Jan. 20 directing that the Gulf of Mexico beryllium renamed the Gulf of America.

Trump has since named Feb. 9 arsenic the authoritative Gulf of America Day. The U.S. president released a statement “[calling] upon nationalist officials and each the radical of the United States to observe this time with due programs, ceremonies and activities.”

Following the authoritative U.S. sanction change, Apple and Google responded by altering the sanction to “Gulf of America” connected their U.S. maps services. Those utilizing the maps extracurricular of the U.S. volition proceed to spot it labeled arsenic the Gulf of Mexico.

During her Feb. 13 regular conference, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum responded by saying her authorities whitethorn record a civilian suit against Google implicit the tech company’s determination to alteration the assemblage of water’s name.

Campillo’s manner enactment draws inspiration from accepted Mexican charrería style. (Cyndepaul/Wikimedia Commons)

Who is Patricio Campillo?

Patricio Campillo grew up successful Mexico City but spent clip successful the municipality of Zacualpan successful México state, which influenced his manner line, The Pack. Campillo’s pieces are inspired by emblematic Mexican charrería (horseriding) imagery.

“I’m trying to sphere the proportions, the fit, and the mode the jackets are structured successful the Charro mode of classical tailoring,” Campillo said of his astir caller postulation successful an interrogation with Paper Magazine.

Campillo’s website states, “The Pack redefines masculinity by integrating humanities and modern elements, promoting an inclusive and divers imaginativeness of what it means to beryllium a man. With a absorption connected sustainability and a process of changeless evolution, Campillo has transformed his signifier by connecting his enactment with his taste background.”

It is the 2nd clip that Campillo has been invited to clasp a amusement astatine NYFW. The Mexican decorator won fame arsenic a finalist for the LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers, wherever helium was recognized for fusing fashion, individuality and sustainability.

Campillo’s Gulf of Mexico T-shirt is disposable for pre-order connected his website for US $90 (1,844 pesos), successful sizes XS to XXL.

With reports from ELLE México, El Sol de Tampico, Paper Magazine, Infobae and Sopitas