Esteban Sinisterra, a young Black fashion designer from Colombia's Pacific region, is dressing Vice-President Francia Marquez, the first Afro-Colombian woman to hold the post, in what he calls 'resistance' fashion
BOGOTA, Sept 26 - Esteban Sinisterra, a young Black fashion designer from Colombia's largely-poor Pacific region, is dressing Vice-President Francia Marquez - the first Afro-Colombian woman to hold the post - in what he calls "resistance" fashion.
His background has commonalities with Marquez, a former housekeeper and environmental activist, who grew up in the poor municipality of Suarez, in Cauca province, and1/4 "First we accept and recognize that we have roots that connect us - which is Africa - but taking into account those roots we also express the territory where we're from, the Colombian Pacific," said Sinisterra, who learned his craft from his aunt and grandmother.
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