Gabriela Hearst, ambassador of the Uruguayan wool Hearst founded its eponymous brand in 2015 dedicated to incorporating sustainable production into its collections, which today is consolidated as a luxury brand with an international client base. Connected to her origins, the Uruguayan-born designer, who lives in New York, spent her childhood in the [...]
Interview with Ana Livni: What did the pandemic mean for the Ana Livni brand, a brand that was born during the 2002 crisis and now has to face another complicated moment? We say that crises can be seen as opportunities, in this case it was more dramatic because it is not only an economic crisis [...]
By Emilio Mayora Uruguay’s government has announced new and ambitious film-TV legislation aimed at converting the small Latin American nation into a far larger film-TV hub via a new series of cash rebates for international shoots and co-productions with Uruguay. Coming as Uruguay neighbors Brazil and Argentina battle huge challenges to state film funding – [...]
The Uruguayan-born, New York-based designer will continue as creative director at her namesake brand alongside her new role. By Elizabeth Paton And so a new era begins at Chloé. Less than a week after the departure of Natacha Ramsay-Levi following a four year tenure, the French fashion house announced Gabriela Hearst as its new artistic director, effective immediately. Ms. [...]
Climate change is one of the main challenge cities will have to face in the coming future. Mitigation and adaptation are the two main approaches to cope with the effects of climate change on the earth and its population. There is international consensus that greening strategies in cities are one of the most effective adaptation [...]
Dearest Uruguay, I landed here on February 25th, and my plan was to stay with you for one month. My return flight home to New York City was booked for March 25th. That flight was canceled. Your airport was closed, and as I write this 7 months later, we are still together. During these last [...]
Uruguay recently unveiled the brand ‘Uruguay Wools’ to promote its wool globally and turn the nation into a reference point in the wool industry, both at the regional and global levels. The event was attended by vice president Beatriz Argimón, president of the Uruguayan Wool Secretariat Miguel Sanguinetti and Jaime Miller, executive director of Uruguay [...]
Uruguay’s Minister of Tourism, Germán Cardoso, announced on Tuesday that Uruguay will reopen borders for tourism to European Union citizens. This decision was made after the resumption operations between Madrid and Montevideo in July have worked positively. According to Hosteltur, Uruguay’s borders were opened to its citizens residing abroad, foreigners with residence or anyone who [...]
Once the relieved New Zealand and Australian cruise passengers repatriated from the Greg Mortimer, stranded for days in South America, settle into life back home, they may care to reflect on the heroic rescue by Uruguayan authorities. The successful operation is the subject of immense national pride in Uruguay, the story dominating front pages in the [...]
On a Monday evening, standing on a dirt road in a tiny Uruguayan town, I found myself sipping a grapefruit Negroni and mingling with a group of journalists and wine industry professionals. Some fires blazed nearby, sending wafts of smoke up into the air as a scraggly dog sat near my feet and waiters passed [...]
There's a reason it's known as the “Monaco of the South." Every year, in the period between Christmas and New Year’s, the population of Punta del Este, Uruguay swells from under 10,000 to around 400,000. About two hours up the coast from Montevideo, Punta—as the locals call it—has been dubbed the “Hamptons of South America” [...]
The Uruguayan film The Sharks / Los tiburones, the debut feature by writer-director Lucía Garibaldi, has topped the 24th edition of the Milan Film Festival winning the awards for Best International Feature and for Best Actress. An engaging and provocative coming-of-age tale, The Sharks tells the story of 14-year-old Rosina (played by the wonderful newcomer [...]
