This is the first time a lot of these objects have left Mexico,\u201d Circe Henestrosa tells\u00a0Vogue<\/em>\u00a0of Frida Kahlo\u2019s belongings, which, until 2004, had been locked away for 50 years. Upon the artist\u2019s death in 1954, her muralist husband, Diego Rivera, shut her belongings in a room in their home \u2013 the Blue House on the outskirts of Mexico City \u2013 out of respect and understanding of how Kahlo’s legacy would grow. It took four years for historians to catalogue the some 6,000 photographs, 12,000 documents and 300 items found. And now, many of these personal artefacts and clothes are housed in the\u00a0V&A<\/a>\u00a0as part of its summer exhibition,\u00a0Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the first time a lot of these objects have left Mexico,\u201d Circe Henestrosa tells\u00a0Vogue\u00a0of Frida Kahlo\u2019s belongings, which, until 2004, had been locked away for 50 years. Upon the artist\u2019s death in 1954, her muralist husband, Diego Rivera, shut her belongings in a room in their home \u2013 the Blue House on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,32,33,7,8,14,15,21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casual","category-elegant","category-exotic","category-fashion","category-girly","category-preppy","category-punk","category-trandy","category-vibrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}