Text:Dodi Espinosa, Published at 2DM Blogazine.

The latest issue of V Magazine “All the world’s a stage” included a shot by Mario Testino inspired on a Latin American myth, Maria Felix. She was born in Los Alamos Sonora, an arid province in the north of Mexico and just after being discovered, she started a controversial but unforgettable career, however, it wasn’t till the film “Doña Barbara”, where she got the nickname that is still being remembered, “La Doña”.

She was blessed with a classic beauty besides to a strong exotic touch, everything in a shape full of a particular kind of folkloric elegance that made her the Mexican femme Fatale par excellence.
Although her work it’s almost full of mexican thematic, she also tried other international markets, especially the european one, as she was always attracted by an european aesthetic close to the Chic french style. But everyone knows stars are not for ever: she died the same day as she was born, closing a perfect cycle that seemed to be coldly calculated – yes, this is just and example of her strong temperament-. Her coffin was put the next 22 hours after her death at the Fine Arts Palace in Mexico city and during all this hours and on, the way to the cemetery was always accompanied by loads of people singing a song composed by one of her husbands Augustin Lara, “Maria Bonita”.