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In June, the Antidote Morning Story cycle was completed, and will resume after the summer. A guest of Sophie Zembra and her team, Danié Gómez Ortigoza was at the last meeting.
Danié Gómez Ortigoza, marketing degree, for two years corresponding to Glamor Mexico and Latin America, discovers the pleasure of writing as a means of expression, communication and revolution: as a convinced feminist – despite having three men at home – she claims that the woman is the one who can make the difference, change the world; from Latin America she defends her people through the art that she herself represents through her figure, adorned by a braid in which all the Mexican folklore converges.
Story teller, activist for women and Latin American causes, Danié Gómez Ortigoza is above all a fashion blogger who, through Journey of a Braid – a visual journal – gives voice to her ideas. “Of a Braid” is not chosen randomly, in fact Danié, originally from Mexico, used to decorate the garment with a scarf given to her at a special event in France, while organizing the Mexican delegation for the Women’s Forum for the Economy and the Latin American Society, presided over by Salma Hayek, which was attended by incredible women who knew how to make a difference. Since then the braid has been her companion of adventure that accompanies her, to this day, in a variety of colored scarves matching the outfits.
Every morning, as if it were a ritual, while adorning her hair, she promises herself to help a woman with the intention of bringing joy into her life, making sure that she, in return, can make the difference in the path of another woman.
The braid is part of her unmistakable and irreparably evocative look of another great Mexican woman, Frida Kahlo. She defines herself as the Floridian Frida. Two women: many analogies and many differences. Frida, tied in a double knot to Mexico and Diego Rivera, her and her morbid but utopian desire to become a mother; Danié, French husband, two children and a life spent between Mexico, Spain, Canada, Sweden and the United States.
Her gestures and expressiveness – she is passionate about theater – speak for her and her braid is her trademark. The braid is a way of expressing herself; through which she communicates, knows and is known. It is her story, her perspective and her point of view that confronts that of other people whom she interviews. It is difficult not to notice her because, from woman to woman, besides being very beautiful, she is extremely expressive and just a simple pose even in a silly location makes it easy to find an excellent shot. But beyond the beauty, for which she must thank genetics and mother nature, I find her point of view very interesting. As she says “Beauty is the window. Then there is the door “.
Defined by Elle-USA “among the style icons of Miami” for the series Style across America , Danié is a prominent social-lite figure and is passionate about the projects of the Latin American indigenous communities of which she is the flag bearer perfectly marrying Antidote’s vision, reference shop in the Miami panorama.
Perfectly in tune with her concept of eco-sustainable fashion, when Danié chooses a brand and wears it, interpreting it impeccably, she does so by investing in her values, aware of the fact that for too long people believed in the exclusivity of European or American fashion, thus devaluing the craftsmanship, the fineness of the materials and workmanship of the Latin American people who interpret color in a truly unique way. The beauty of their creations, the love they invest in creating an artisanal dress, a bag or any other creation is inherent in their being passionate about nature: their creations are the natural evolution of the pathos that imprint and emanate in working a fabric. They intertwine in the same way that they develop the sense of community: they weave values and traditions aware of the precious good that is the environment of which neither resources nor materials are wasted.
The beautiful images that she puts on social media seem even daring, almost surreal: a proud and solid image when she has the braid, a more reflective almost fleeting one when her hair is loose. Reading her visual journal you realize how bittersweet her life has been through a disruptive emotional realism. A mix of reflections, flash-back-philosophy to her homeland and in the places that hosted her, in balance between past, present and future.
