On the opening of the Cuban-born American designer's first exhibition in France, her husband spoke movingly about their decades-long partnership.
The artist, known for his illustrations for clients including Louis Vuitton and Nordstrom, spoke movingly of his decades-long partnership with Isabel Toledo, who passed away in 2019.
WWD: That’s so interesting, because just looking at the images of you two together, I would have assumed instinctively that you were two peas in a pod.So many of our friends even said, “You guys finish each other’s sentences.” And we always said, yes, we do, but in a Dada poetry way. It’s not what you expect the ending to be.But I think that was part of it, you appreciate what’s been added that’s completely something you would never have thought of. It’s a new ingredient put into the stew.
Of course, once Michelle Obama gets meshed into our story and woven in, that is when most people met the name Isabel Toledo and understood. Many people still think that yes, Michelle picked a Cuban designer, thinking that Isabel really did come just out of Cuba to dress the first lady. They don’t understand we were already here as political refugees early on. So I think it’s a beautiful doorway for people to enter our story and to enter the story of American design and American fashion thinking.
, disco, Latin hustle — Isabel was an incredible dancer — to this underground art scene that meshed all these things together.Yes, can you imagine? I was a super-shy kid and somehow I got into performing.But it was an incredible learning opportunity for me, because I was still a high school kid, and this Cuban high school kid ends up in that world and, yes, meeting Andy [Warhol] and [Jean-Michel] Basquiat and Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf.
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