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Fiction Magazine
22 Pages · InDesign
Bogotá, 2026
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Bogotá, Una Historia de Amor is a 22-page editorial project that takes Cinderella and retells her story in contemporary Bogotá — as a lesbian love story between two young women navigating identity, class, and belonging in a city that is still learning to see them. The magazine format was not incidental. It was the medium chosen deliberately: a cultural object that mimics the language of fashion and lifestyle publications, but carries a story that those publications rarely tell.
A cultural object designed to sit alongside the publications it reimagines.
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The starting point was a question: what stories do mainstream magazines refuse to tell? Cinderella has been retold hundreds of times. This version asks what happens when the prince is not in the story at all — when the glass slipper belongs to someone who was never invited to the ball.
Champion HTF Featherweight was chosen for its contradictory nature — it looks strong but feels fragile. Lora brings warmth and readability to the body text. Together they create the emotional register of the publication: authority in the headlines, intimacy in the story.
Each double page was designed as a moment in the story — not a neutral container for content but an active participant in the narrative. The grid shifts between spreads. White space is used dramatically. The magazine does not illustrate the story. It is the story.
"What if Cinderella had always been queer?"
Bogotá, Una Historia de Amor is a project about visibility — about using the tools of editorial design to make a story legible that is too often invisible. The magazine format was chosen because of its cultural weight: we trust magazines to tell us what matters, who is desirable, whose love is real. This project turns that trust into an act of inclusion.