Somos Bertha y Laura, hermanas, específicamente cuatas, y lo ¿mejor? MEXICANAS. Nacimos en el 93 y somos de Veracruz. No tenemos ningún tipo de poder telepático ni sincronización y sí que tenemos personalidades muy diferentes. Nuestro punto de vista choca la mayor parte del tiempo, pero aún así hay algo que siempre nos ha unido, además del hecho de ser mejores amigas, tenemos un amor peculiar por la moda, en realidad pensamos que la moda es un camino muy entretenido y creativo para mostrar nuestras perspectivas individuales donde además es posible mostrar un estado de ánimo, lo que nos gusta y también lo que nos disgusta. Es un hecho que la ropa ha sido un factor clave para nuestra forma de crecer y unirnos, mi mamá solia amar esta tendencia donde nos combinaba de pies a cabeza, el moño y la bolsa nunca nos faltaron. La ropa siempre ha formado parte del rompecabezas de nuestra vida pero ahora que ya hemos crecido estamos disfrutando de descubrir juntas cómo cada quien usa la ropa a su manera y sin embargo como aún tenemos muchas prendas en común, por supuesto, sería superficial hacerlo (al menos desde nuestra perspectiva) solo a través de la moda, pero con seguridad esta ha sido una fuente para crear y recrear, para divertirnos y descubrir que la moda puede ser tan profunda y personal como uno quiera. Recordar que mi madre solía vestirnos de la misma manera, y admitimos que lo hizo muy bien, en cierto modo nos hizo sentir un amor profundo por la ropa y todo lo que pasa en la mente de los creadores de grandes colecciones, además de que sinceramente era muy divertido confundir a la gente. Muchas veces se piensa que los cuates o gemelos piensan igual pero la moda nos resulta útil para mostrar todo lo contrario y las diferentes personalidades que como todo ser humano podemos llegar a tener. Un atuendo puede “hablar” de manera diferente al otro según la personalidad y no la moda en sí misma. Definitivamente pensamos que mi madre hizo un gran trabajo y ahora que miramos hacia atrás y vemos los álbumes de la familia, nos damos cuenta de cómo nos vistió involuntariamente de acuerdo con algunas tendencias (probablemente se divirtió muchísimo), de acuerdo a esa época y que sin darnos cuentan regresan a estar de moda hoy en día, la diferencia es que ahora las usamos de acuerdo a nuestras propias decisiones. Hoy en día estamos pasando por una era en la que la moda es mal interpretada y malentendida, esta es una era de un millón de tendencias por mes, por lo que básicamente, en lugar de darnos algo, nos está quitando nuestras personalidades. Así es como se convirtió Double Trouble, como un pensamiento que ambas compartimos de este gran momento que pasa frente a nuestros ojos, y cómo simplemente podemos perderlo todo o llegar a encontrar la forma de ser nosotros mismo con ayuda de la ropa que usamos, como u extra claro está. Queremos compartir cómo, por telepatía (es broma, o tal vez no), hemos comprado la misma ropa repetidas veces y cómo la usamos de maneras muy diferentes, esa es la parte graciosa, todavía vemos lo mismo, pero lo pensamos en una forma completamente diferente. Solo queremos exhortar a la gente a ser uno mismo y a salir de la zona de confort ya que nosotras hacemos lo mismo en el viaje. Todo se trata de crear un lenguaje a través de la moda, darle el significado que una vez tuvo y dejarlo hablar con nosotros mismos y no solo para el mundo superficial perdido y globalizado.
♥Mexican twins since 1993♥
We are twins who have very different personalities, our point of view collides most of the time but yet there is something that always keep us glued and together besides the fact that we are best friends; we also have a peculiar love for fashion, we actually think it is a very entertaining, creative path to show our individual perspectives in order to demonstrate our mood, what we like and also, what we dislike. It is a fact that clothing has been a key factor for the puzzle and we are enjoying the maturity growing we are discovering together, of course, it would be superficial to do that at least from our perspective, only through fashion, but for sure it has been a source to create and recreate, to have fun and to discover that fashion can be as deep and personal as you want it to be. Ever since we remember my mother used to dressed us the same way, and we have to admit she did it nicely well, we couldn´t complain since we were loving it, it was so fun to get people confuse in a sense since we were so alike, and it was fun to demonstrate through our different personalities how an outfit can “speak” differently from the other according the personalities and not fashion itself. We definitely think she did a great job and now that we look back and see the family albums we realize how she unintentionally dressed us according to some trends, probably that was the fun of it, that we were living in a decade of a marked style so whatever she picked was part of that time. She was not trying to copy anybody so you could tell she was putting her creativity into it but the originality she added by the hairstyle, the shoes, and each of our personalities gave the extra thing to the outfits. Nowadays we are going through an era were fashion is misread and misunderstood, this is an era of 10103232 trends per month, so that basically instead of giving us something, is taking our personalities away. That´s how Double Trouble became, as a thought we both share of this big moment happening in front of our eyes, how simply we can loose it all or how simply we can become our true selfs. We want to share how by telepathy (just kidding, or maybe not) we have bought the same clothes repeatedly and still how we use it in very different ways, that’s the funny part, we still pic the same stuff but we thought about it in a whole different way. We just want to exhort people to be themselves and help them ( you) to get out of the comfort zone as we do the same on the ride. It´s all about to create a language through fashion, to give it the meaning it once had and let it speak with ourselves and not just for the globalized long lost superficial world.
BERTHA
I´m Bertha, a 24-year-old woman who is still really confused about the future but is enjoying the journey while things happen step by step. I´m very realistic, which probably most of the time is a flaw since the world is politically correct all the time, but I stand still and protect my ideals no matter what. I´m a textile designer but firstly I’m a creative who if had a nice voice would be a singer, but since that’s not the case just going to play the designer role since it’s something ire ally enjoy a lot. I chose to be a textile designer because the country I live in has taught me so many things about the diversity of cultures and mostly it has been through textiles, so there is not a magic element or secret one, it’s just that. I grew up in a family formed by women and only women and I believe that gave me the strength to grow up and mature faster which now I appreciate a lot, I believe in many things, if you get to know me you will basically know directly from me what I don’t like and what fascinates me if you don’t is because I simply couldn’t trust you enough to open the door and it’s just the reality and nothing else. If You ever hear me talking to you trust me it’s going to be something that has a meaning even a hello and of course, a goodbye. I always think of every possibility when it comes to solve anything. I believe there is always a way to overcome hard times and for sure I rather listen to people than talking, I have enough by talking to myself all day. I love music and the beats that sound different than what is common in the industry nowadays and I enjoy going to the movies with the twin. Soon I will begin my fashion brand but right now jewelry is what passionates me the most. I also enjoy finding short reads from people I never heard of and that’s the most interesting thing about it.
LAURA
I am a communication student in Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México. I have a few months left before I graduate (finally). I usually enjoy watching all kind of movies, I think it’s about finding a balance between what makes you think and what is only fun, that’s why I enjoy going to the Cineteca Nacional or to Cine Tonalá to watch artistic movies and in the other hand and at other times I simply go to the conventional movie theaters to see one or another blockbuster movie (Natural Born Killers and Big Fish are examples of what can make my day go easier). And as for music, the same thing happens to me as with the cinema, I can listen from something extreme to something very calm as my day progresses. For the moment in my playlist are artists ranging from Blind Melon, Bon Iver, Rhye to Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon or Major Lazer. I have worked in Public Relations for a while but now that I am about to graduate, I am interested in Journalism so that at some point I would specialize in Fashion Journalism and be able to go abroad to live. By the way, on August 17 is going to be my birthday, to be exact I will turn 25 years old. After what´s been said, I can tell you that I can count my friends with only my two hands and im truly enjoying life as good as it getting. Also and as a fact my favorite phrase at the moment is: “I am rooted but I flow” by Virginia Woolf.
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