Chapter 7 · June 2026
Glow with Pride
BUGAMBILIA / TÉ BLANCO / CEREZA COLA / MEZCAL E HIGO / LIMÓN
The menu that set fiction aside to look straight at history, memory, and the future we're still building.
June · pride as memory
The light we inherited
June was one of our hardest months in sales. It was also one of the most important for understanding who we are.
After playing with fictional stories, we decided to stop and look at the real one: the story of people who took stages that seemed to deny them a place, who marched for rights they wouldn't live to enjoy, and who still make their own existence a form of resistance.
The narrative brought together two pop-culture icons who defied the limits of their time — Juan Gabriel and Cristina Ortiz, La Veneno — and three moments of the same story: thanking those who came before us, honoring those burning brightly today, and trusting the light of those still to come.
01
Lo que se ve no se pregunta
Bougainvillea, Mexican pink, and the decision to take up the whole stage.
Born from Juan Gabriel, who — without ever explaining his private life — turned the stage into a place where he could exist fully. The look drew from his stage costumes: bougainvillea and roses, a white chocolate ganache, and bougainvillea leaves hydrated in their own syrup.
Like Juan Gabriel, this piece didn't ask permission to be intense, Mexican, sensitive, and spectacular.
02
Por quienes brillaron antes
A white cloud to name absence and give thanks for the road.
The quietest pause in Glow with Pride: it didn't celebrate one figure, but everyone who marched, shouted, and loved while imagining a world they might not live to see. The white tea cookie held a cream so airy it looked like a cloud, with a white peach gel at its center.
We treated it as a piece of mourning, gratitude, and deep respect.
03
Veneno pa' tu piel
Cherry cola, shimmer, and a life that refused to go unnoticed.
Cristina Ortiz, La Veneno, was one of the first trans women to reach mass visibility on television. On a vanilla base, cherries in syrup nodded to the marks left by the violence she survived; a silky red cream stood for her transition.
Her shine didn't erase the wounds — it affirmed that none of them could take away her right to be seen. It became one of our community's favorites.
04
Arde Insurrecta
Agave, fig, and mezcal for those who grow even when the world tells them to disappear.
Agave clings to life in dry, difficult landscapes, and gives rise to mezcal. The vanilla base carried a mineral mezcal cream and, at the center, a fig compote with more mezcal.
The alcohol was no longer part of the experience, but its woody notes stayed — the memory of a celebration for finally being who you always wanted to be.
05
Mañana también brilla
Lemon, a proud heart, and a rainbow that pops in every bite.
The lemon cookie held a rainbow with a proud heart at its center; on top, a tart cream carried popping boba in green apple, blueberry, and pink lemonade.
Tomorrow doesn't shine by accident — it lights up with every person who today decides not to hide again.
What June left at d-stellar
Pride isn't measured in sales alone
June was one of our worst months in sales. That truth belongs to the story too. And yet it left behind one of the collections that best explains why d-stellar exists: to create from identity, make room for diversity, and turn every flavor into a conversation worth having.
Maybe the menu wasn't the best-selling one. It was, instead, one of the ones that looked most like us.
Five lights for those who paved the way, those resisting today, and those still waiting to catch fire.