EL CATRIN

If there is one character that absolutely had to be part of our Día de Muertos collection, it had to be the Catrín. The story of the Catrín goes back to the famous Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada, whose calaveras were created as a satire of people who tried very hard to look wealthy and sophisticated. Later, Diego Rivera helped turn La Catrina into one of the most recognizable symbols of Mexican culture. Basically, Posada's message was pretty simple: underneath all the fancy clothes, mon…

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