A New Editorial Era: The Launch of Topics That Transform

I have always believed that beginnings hold more power than continuities. For over fifteen years, I lived beauty from within the editorial industry: through covers, campaigns, conversations, and silences. I learned to read culture in the face of a model, in the texture of a word, in the gaze of a generation. But I also came to understand something: beauty could no longer be told in such limited language.

Constant movement—from Argentina to Uruguay, from London to Barcelona, from Mexico to Los Angeles—taught me that every city reveals a new version of oneself. And in that movement, I found the conviction that it was time to build a different kind of editorial house: not a portal of fleeting trends, but a space capable of crossing languages, geographies, and disciplines.

That space is Topics That Transform.

By Claudia Valdez

THE COMPLICITY OF ADRIANA, THE RITZ, AND TTT

On September 9, at The Ritz-Carlton in Mexico City, that vision took tangible form. It was not a simple breakfast; it was a manifesto. A room filled with industry leaders, longtime friends, and inspiring voices, where every conversation became a promise of what is to come. The flowers by Claudia Chapa were not decoration, but symbols of a fertile beginning. The support of Natura Bissé, Pantene, and Sisley was not a gesture, but a reminder that the industry moves further when it builds in community. The trust of Adriana Zermeño and the Ritz-Carlton team gave this inaugural chapter the stage it deserved.

A room filled with industry leaders, longtime friends, and inspiring voices, where every conversation became a promise of what is to come.

FERNANDA CASTREJÓN

AILEDD MENDUET

CLAUDIA VALDEZ & ALEJANDRA GALICIA

CAROLINA BUENFIL

CLAUDIA VALDEZ & CLAUDIA DELGADO

CLAUDIA VALDEZ & Manolo Mijangos

DANIEL NAJERA

FERNANDA CONTRERAS

GINNA LUEVANT

JOHANNA TORAL

JUAN PABLO BONILLA

LIZBETH LUIS & CLAUDIA VALDEZ

MARIMAR BEJARANO & CLAUDIA VALDEZ

MELISSA AMARILLAS

MONSERRAT GARIBAY & CLAUDIA VALDEZ

TATIANA FRANCO

RAFAEL MICHA & ANA GABRIELA FERNÁNDEZ

SANTIAGO LLADÓ

NOEMI CRUZ, ADRIANA ZERMEÑO, CLAUDIA VALDEZ, ELIZABETH ULLOA, ANDREA BAU

THE WOMEN THAT MAKE IT POSSIBLE

And none of this happens in isolation. Life brought me back to women who now make this dream possible: Elizabeth Ulloa, deputy director, who builds the bridges between Mexico and the United States; Noemí Cruz, our creative director, whose vision I once shared at Vogue and who now expands into the visual universe of TTT; and Andrea Bau, who began her editorial career working also with me at Vogue and now returns as digital editor, bringing freshness and clarity to every word. These are not coincidences: circles close only when we are ready to open greater ones.

What we experienced that morning was not an event. It was the certainty that beauty can be transformed into culture, and culture into a global editorial movement.

“And none of this happens in isolation. Life brought me back to women who now make this dream possible.”

TTT A BILINGUAL DIGITAL HOUSE

Topics That Transform was born as a bilingual digital house with seven editorial universes—Vitality, Headspace, Beauty Vanguard, Lifescape, The Story Lens, Interviews, The Ultimate Icon—but its true strength does not lie in its structure, but in its vision: to recognize that beauty is not superficiality, but identity, diversity, innovation, and truth.

This project is not the echo of what I have already done; it is the beginning of what is yet to be told. Topics That Transform is not a medium. It is a movement. And what began in a room at The Ritz-Carlton, in the heart of Mexico City, is only the first page of a story that, from today forward, belongs to the world.