Rio Uribe of Gypsy Sport Fame (now only Rio name) has kept himself busy. In addition to managing his own label, he is working as Chrome Industries, Utility Apparel Manufacturer, its Creative Director. He also launched a market in March, which is a community program in Los Angeles, where he hosted a budding designers and gives them an opportunity to work and sell for widespread audiences. Over the years since Uribe, he has become one of its most vocal advocates for inclusiveness and is a bright example of the importance of objection. This pride month, in front of an American administration that is targeting the community and as a background with immigration raid, has become more important than before.
Uribe has been working with Chrome for almost a year, but this proud capsule is the first time he co-stakes the product contrary to designing the product in the background. He said, “The brand is very inspired by the computer lifestyle, so I decided to take it and, because I live in LA, take a slow approach and take a lowerer, where you are just hovering, just chilling,” he said on the phone. Challenge, Uribe said, “It is not a cipher for the lovider chico culture queue, but the traditional latino masculinity or” matcheso “is quite opposite due to its emphasis. “I was so, let’s disrupt a little bit and show that there are queues in those communities.”
Photo: Guicho Palma
Photo: Guicho Palma
In Los Angeles, Uribe’s time could not be much intense to highlight the Mexican-American community. “It is very sad and scary about what is happening,” he said in response to the immigration raids targeting the community. He said, “I have no family that has been affected at this time, but my father and other family members have been deported in the last few years for other reasons.” “Migration in this country is the right way,” or whatever you want to call it may be easy for some people, but there are many shady immigration lawyers in California who disappear with people’s money, this is a very common story. “
This, in the part, that is why Urbe has also closed his market initiative: to activate his community and take advantage of his collective resources. Some of his vendors have pulled out because they are afraid of being printed by ice agents, so he is doubling security and employees. He said, “My approach is always to find happiness and find creativity in the moment and tries to place people on that wavelength,” he explained. “I think there is enough tragedy and disappointment, but how do we interact it about unity and creativity?” Uribe is trying to flip the script: “We need more places for existence because existence is resistance, and just being creative, making music together, making fashion together, this is a big way to resist,” he said. This is a sense of pride, also, to see yourself and listen.
