Marcelo Chic’s Spring 2025 runway show dazzles and ends with a proposal

On Wednesday evening, Mérida’s smart set descended upon the atelier home of the Yucatán’s most significant young designer, Marcelo López. On a night brimming with wows and ovations, the gathered fashionistas feasted on the visual delights of Marcelo Chic’s Spring 2025 collection. There was love in the air.

The night kicked off with Marcelo’s inamorato and business partner, Mark Callum, calling the congregation to order, reading the “parish notes,” and highlighting members of the audience wearing their Marcelo Chic pieces. This delightful amuse-bouche whetted the audience’s anticipatory appetites.

Then we were off to the races.

A green-sequined vision sang something poignant in French.

A couple danced across the runway, highlighting both the brand’s flirty aesthetic and its grounded utility. These are clothes people can wear.

The men’s line featured waistcoats. The classic gray-and-rain-soaked British gentleman was reimagined in the sun-drenched vibrancy of the Yucatán, anchored in serious and substantial earth tones.

The women’s line featured outfits paying tribute to Latina sensuality. Flashes of midriff, peeking out from long, elegant lines, winked with coquettish charm. This is playful fashion that shuns the industry’s usual artificial seriousness and plainly says: Girls just want to have fun.

And fun they had, as the women’s confidence contrasted with the ethereal dreaming of the men.

It was a puckish role reversal, celebrating modern femininity and the poet lurking in romantic men.

The show ended with a bridal couple, both dressed in white, declaring this to be the union of equal partners. Masculinity and femininity intertwined to prove that love, when done right, produces a union greater than its parts.

The curtain fell as all the models joined the nuptial couple to celebrate romance and possibility.

Then, in a moment that left the audience misty-eyed and cheering, Mark knelt before his partner in life, love, and commerce and, from bended knee, asked Marcelo to marry him. In turn, Marcelo proposed matrimony to Mark.

Dear reader, I must confess: Your humble correspondent was rendered verklempt and had to recover with a stiff swig of fizz.

Luckily, they both said yes.

Credits

Fashion Design — Marcelo López
Hair & Makeup — Sofia Repetto
Jewelry — G.G .Manchester
Men’s Shoes — Alejandro Barrera
Photography — Rene López
Production — Mark Callum

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