Mexican 80’s Show Biz and Uncle Mitzi Designer to the Stars

I moved to the US for University in the late 80's.
Before that I was mainly in Mexico City and was very involved in show biz because I loved dance and acting and my grandmother worked for the TV network (Televisa) and the the Mexican counterpart to SAG/Equity.
and I went to school with a lot of people that eventually became famous in show biz in Mexico like Thalia Sodi ( who had a clothing line at Kmart and married Tommy Motola, Mariah Carey's ex-husband), Mariana Levy who was a close friend when we were little. Mariana's mom , TV conductor Talina Fernandez, was a schoolmate and friend of my dad's from the Alexander Von Humboldt German school so our parents had always know each other. Angelica Vale who played Ugly Betty in the Mexican version of the show, also went to my same school. Her mom, actress and singer Angelica Maria, loved me to bits because I had worked with her and actor Andres Garcia as a child actor in a soap opera called "Ana Del Aire".
Two of the singers from the super-famous Mexican pop band Timbiriche, Benny Ybarra and Sasha Sokol. ended up going to the performing arts prep school I got admitted to in Boston, Walnut Hill. She ended up developping a fairly bad case of drug addiction and bulimia. My mom did not let me go to Boston before finishing HS. I had to wait until Uni which maybe stopped me from making my bulimia/ anorexia more serious at a younger age ( I did not hit rock bottom with my ED until 23) and forced me to actually pay more mind to my academics in school because otherwise I would have only cared about my dance and acting and costume design.
Well, there were other people in this band Timbriche. There was a girl named Alix, another girl Mariana Garza and another one named Paulina Rubio. After Sasha left the band because she went off to Boston mostly to put the brakes on an affairs with an innapropriately older producer, Thalia joined the band.
They also were in a chil-actor version of the play "Grease" ( my daughter Saffi was in it like 3 years ago) with a lot of all the people that later on became actors or alternantes in Timbiriche like Eric Rubin, Guillermo Capetillo and Lolita Cortez.
Well, I know that Paulina Rubio is and has always been an evil bitch.
She was miserable to Thalia, Eric and Lolita who was by a LANDSLIDE the most talented of the bunch.
She was straight out of "Mean Girls" vicious and both Lolita and Thalia probably carry that with them and I know Eric does too.
Well there is this Mexican fashion designer called Mitzi.
He is known and makes glitzy stagewear spangly dresses for all the Mexican star (lets), drag queens like Francis ( RIP) and so on.
My family has known Mitzi for years too, because he has his store/ atelier in the Pink Zone of Mexico city where my Dad had his office, across the street from the Ramua beauty salon where all the big time show biz divas got their hair did.
Ramua is pretty tight with my Mum who got her hair done with him. He used to do the hair of Maria Felix too. Both Ramua, Mitizi and my "uncle" Bernardo who had an apparment in the same building as my dad's office and an appartment.
My uncle Bernardo was an entretainer in cruise ships and had been a dancer for long time.
Mitzi did his costumes. So I knew all these people, older gay men involved peripheraly in show biz since I was fairly young. When I say I was raised in the gay communtiy I am not kidding.
Last time I saw uncle Mitzi was at the fabric store in LA when I was there with Jeremiah in one of my trips there to visit him. Mitzi was shocked as all hell to see me there.
Every one expected me to be in like London or Toronto or something, married to some researcher guy in some sort of nerdy occupation.
Well, Mitzi is actually an excellent craftsman and does some of the most beautiful hand beading this side of Broderies Lesage in Switzerland. He has ran a fairly successfull business all these years in what it is that he does.
I was even going to outsource one of the dresses for my student collection that is completely beaded to him.
I am also outsourcing the chain mail in one of my garments. It's not Project Runway. I see no particular merit in making everything by myself with my own two hands. I am the designer, not necessarily the seamstress or tailor. That is just being a control freak. Outsourcing to other people who are experts in certain things allows me the freedom to produce exactly what I want at the highest level and to do justice to my vision as a designer.
I can sew and I can tailor and can bead VERY well, but I am putting out a full collection. I cannot do everything by myself. And the people that I am outsourcing the work to, do these things better than me.Shocking, eh? Humility..
The designs are 100% mine though.
It's not like Galliano or Lagerfeld hand make every garment that they design.
Mitzi has also known Thalia and Pau and Vero Castro and everyone forever.
He made Thalia's wedding gown.
Well, he just made this dress where he put Thalia in the back portrayed as an Aztec Goddess.
With Pau at her feet as a servant maid giving her an offering. That is like a sartorial "reading".
Dissing Pau and saying that she is nothing but a maid when compared to Thalis.
I agree but he did not need to say it.
To top things off, he had Niurka Marcos, who is like, I don't know, the equivalent of Britney/Paris/ some lady that does a lot of scandalous shit but is not aprticularly known for being refined or for her talent model the dress.
Yikes...
It is a huge publicity stunt by Mitzi and publicity in a way for both Pau and Thalis.
He has also done a Niurka modelled creation with Veronica Castro and her son Christian in the back.
They have been in some sort of feud too.
But seriously, I think that as a designer uncle Mitzi is better than that. He does what he does ( Kayne Gillespie/ Bob Mackie type stuff) really well and is good at that.
I think that by stooping to such publicity stunts and getting involved in that stuff he is taking away from his merit as a designer.
But he brought back up to the surface old wounds and shit that has been going on since we all were kids.
It might be publicity for everyone but in my opinion, he's bringing back up stuff from years ago and bygones should be bygones. I mean these people are lucky enough to have made good lives for themselves and heal.
Bringing up that shit is not going to help things after 30 years..
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