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...more than a Mexicana. There were Puerto Ricans and Dominicans on my street; I went to school with them, along with Cubans, Argentines and Peruvians; I bumped into Salvadoran and Chilean refugees in community centers. I began to see that I was part of a continent--from Patagonia to el Caribe. I still called myself a Mexicana, but I came to consider myself something bigger, a Latina without borders...
Nike, Reebok, Patagonia and Liz Claiborne are all founding members of the FLA, and corporations hold six of the 14 seats on the organization's board...
Bruce Chatwin always seemed almost too good to be true: an "alarmingly handsome" golden boy who became a director of Sotheby's at 25, quit to go to Patagonia and came back with what the blurbists now call "the most influential travel book in the English language." In his address book Jackie Onassis sat next to an oryx herder, and in his prose he'd characteristically present himself talking to a priest while the man "knifed out the eye of a young guanaco...
...Outside, it's cold. Alicia claims her Patagonia Guide Jacket has given up the ghost. Anna can't find her North Face. Mica's all set, but I've provoked JP's jealousy with my brand new Mountain Hardware ensemble...
...Patagonia is interesting. Of course it has a trendy dimension to it-it does have all the labels, and it has a catalogue with some of the features I was talking about. But it's not as in-your-face as some of these stores. Patagonia uses their catalogue to get good environmental information out to consumers. But their stuff is expensive. But it's more expensive to buy organic cotton and environmentally friendly fabrics. . . It's complicated...