Until a few years ago we had a comfortable, pretty settled life in Dallas. A familiar routine, a house, a city we already knew by heart. It was in the middle of the pandemic, just as the world had hit pause, that the idea of The Ėditure began to take shape.
To really build it, we had to move. We made the first big decision: leave Dallas and move to Monterrey, because from Mexico we’d be able to put together the infrastructure and the teams a project like this needs. Said in one sentence it sounds perfectly logical. Living it was another matter.
Moving a whole family isn’t just changing your address. We changed schools, friends, language, country. For the girls especially it was no small thing — leaving the familiar at that age never is. It’s quick to say and slow to do, one day at a time.
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Still dreaming still doing
The Monterrey years were about rolling up our sleeves. Building from the ground up, getting it wrong, doing it over. Nothing was ever fully clear and it didn’t always work, but there we stayed, set on getting the thing off the ground.
Then came the second move. The Ėditure needed to be where things actually happen — close to the brands, the artists, the community that lives with the products I was going to curate — and for that there was no better place than New York, a city I’d already loved from afar for years. Of all the changes, this one was the hardest; not because of the distance, but because of everything that starting over involves when you thought you’d already started.
Over time I understood something about myself: I’m not someone who builds what matters to her from a place of comfort. Comfortable wasn’t enough to do this; I had to get close to where the thing really lives, even if that meant taking my life apart and putting it back together more than once. Every move had its price, and I paid it in full.
Today, on the other side of all those changes, I miss things about each place — you always miss something. But I’d do it again. The project that pulled us out of our comfort began as an idea in the middle of the pandemic, and step by step it brought us here.
