Beyond Bad Bunny’s musical influence, there lies a stronger message with the artists style choices, the reasoning that has led the University of New Mexico (UNM) joins the likes of other American universities, from Ivy League Yale to nearby San Diego State, in offering their students a course on Puerto Rican reggaetonero.
Led by Francisco J. Galarte, associate professor in American Studies, the fashion history and design course seeks to unravel the artist’s personal style to define the history and symbolism tied to the outfits relating to Puerto Rican culture and granting students the ability to create their own body of work as if the artist would wear them.
“It’s really about how the garments really are kind of this historical text and how we can understand these garments as archives as well and also the body as an archive”, the professor explained in an interview with W JOURNAL…