How Frida Kahlo Invented ‘Frida Kahlo’

Diego Rivera and Frida (Kahlo)
by Carl Van Vechten (LoC)

(Daily Beast) … Born near Mexico City in 1907 to a German father and a mother of Spanish and Indian descent, Kahlo’s family taught her about style from a young age.
Early photographs of her family feature women wearing traditional starched lace headdress from the Oaxaca region.
Another shows her mother, Matilde Calderón y Gonzalez, wearing some of the European fashions that were popular prior to the Mexican Revolution. Continued