Once upon a time Puerto Rico was an Island where thin models were always featured in Top Magazines and Fashion Shows…not anymore.
The Curvy Boom has reached the Island. Mainstream magazines are using Plus Size Models, some being Esposa Moderna and Imagen Magazine, two of the leading magazines here. San Juan Moda Fashion Show included its first Plus Fashion Show this year and I was so happy, I saw familiar faces of models I have worked with in the past and new faces at the show.
Model and Public Figure Maria Maria modeled a beautiful design that I so loved. I couldn’t be there but I saw the coverage from San Juan Moda site, and loved Bob Varela’s images of the event, I also loved the diversity used choosing the models.
The Designers presenting their collections were Carol Reyes, Elda Samano, Emmanuel Acosta, Javier Arnaldo, Osvaldo Morales, Patricia Rivera and Lizet Miró.
Many models just rocked that runway, they owned it, making me so proud that the Fashion World in Puerto Rico is realizing that Plus is beautiful too.
Curvy girl on a Budget Editor,Violet Moya, Skye Lexi from UK and Photographer Fernando Legaspi based in Florida collaborated with me to choose their 5 choices of their favorite designs and models, who they thought owned the runway that night, I loved the selection.
Skye Lexi worked as Evolve Magazine’s social manager for two years and then went on to work with both Rianne Ward and Remi Ray to help get the British Plus Size fashion week started.
Fernando Legaspi a Photographer based in Florida has been doing Photography for about 15 years. His work runs from fashion, model/actress photography also working in newspapers and magazines in Mexico… I will be working with him in August…I am headed down to Florida for this shoot and can’t wait to meet him…so they were the perfect people to choose the Top Five. I didn’t choose because I don’t think it would of been fair knowing some of the girls, I would of picked all of them. The models chosen had presence, confidence, style and grace on the runway, something very important for a model to have thin or curvy, you can see from the images that these models had it all put together.
Here they are, Curvy Girl on a Budget’s choices of the models who rocked the runway at San Juan Moda 2016…
Photo Credit-Bob Varela http://bobvarela.com/
http://www.produccioneslegaspi.com/
Marta Rivera is a blogger from Puerto Rico, she is an English professor and a Plus Size advocate on the Island, an Island that is mainly for thin models, but she is trying her best to change that. Marta will be blogging for Curvy Girl on a Budget letting us know everything that is happening in the Plus Size community from fashion to events in Puerto Rico.
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