The celebration of a girl's 15 th birthday is among the most cherished, and costly, cultural traditions in Mexico. But as with many things in this country, it's changing quickly But as she raked her ...

Minerva Alvarez learned to cut fabric as a middle-schooler in her native Cuernavaca, Mexico. She began making simple dresses in class and soon elevated to creating elaborate quinceañera designs. “It’s ...

One of the quieter casualties of COVID was the number of quinceañeras that had to be postponed, canceled or downsized. Quinceañeras take place on a girl’s 15th birthday to mark the transition between ...

More and more of Mexico’s coming-of-age quinceañera dresses are coming from China. They’re part of a flood of Chinese textiles that has undermined local companies and sparked job losses in Mexico’s ...

A 15-year-old girl looks out through a window as she gets ready to participate in the mass Quinceanera Party, in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, April 28, 2012. The Quinceanera Party is a Mexican ...

Looking overwhelmed by the attention, yet resplendent in an elaborate fuchsia dress and gleaming tiara, Rubi Ibarra celebrated her 15th birthday on Monday in a rural Mexican village after the ...

Hundreds of girls celebrating their fifteenth birthdays attended a mass ‘Quinceañera’ celebration in Mexico City yesterday. Every year, the mayor of the Mexican capital hosts a ‘coming of age’ ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Three large portraits hang in Roxanne Contreras's Tucson home. One pictures her and her two kids. The others are just of her daughter, Melina. All of them were taken for ...

LA JOYA, Mexico – Looking overwhelmed by the attention, yet resplendent in an elaborate fuchsia dress and gleaming tiara, Rubi Ibarra celebrated her 15th birthday on Monday in a rural Mexican village ...