The latin faces who decide to try your luck as models face at events like Fashion Week in New York, with a lack of diversity in the gateway that forces them to strive to achieve success.
While many voices applaud the explosion of color injected into the betting for next spring this edition of the gateway of the Big Apple, hand in hand with the designs of Marc Jacobs and Jonathan Saunders, for example, others are wondering why this No color also affects the models used.
As a general rule and despite criticism that many couturiers have earned in recent times for failing to include a larger number of models Latino, black or Asian in their parades, the reality is that the Caucasian faces are ubiquitous in the presentations of new collections.
Last February, when they were presented in New York bets for next autumn-winter, a study said that only 1 percent of the models who worked on this issue was Latino, below 6 per cent of black or Asian.
The pattern is repeated in this issue, although, as recognized in charge of electing some models, agencies worked to add new faces this season to improve the diversity of its catalogs, especially from Latin America faces.
One of those young faces is the Dominican Austria Alcantara, who debuted on the New York catwalk this week, the parade of the twentieth anniversary of the signing DKNY, Donna Karan, and the presentations of Cate Holstein, Ports 1961 and Marchesa.
Although it still has 16 years, Austria is aware of the difficult road we must follow to succeed.
But, also known that a Latino face like hers has much to offer the catwalks in New York, Paris or London or firms like Calvin Klein or Marc Jacobs, with whom he would like to work.
"Latinas bring a different image, a very special touch to the gateway, because they almost always see the same faces very similar parade," explained the couple in an interview with Efe in which he was convinced that "in addition to Brazilian ", there is an important place for all Latinas.
Austria, which tomorrow will participate in the parade by Brian Reyes, is one of three models in Vogue starring TV program "Model.Live", a kind "reality show, documenting the experiences of three youths in his trip by several parades around the world.
"I love me known throughout the world for my work and also to know my country thanks to me," said Austria, who was discovered in a modeling contest in his native country and we do not remove the head of studying architecture in the future.
Another new faces Latinos who landed in New York for the current Fashion Week is the model of Franco Peruvian Noriega, who is part of the new advertising campaign for Dolce & Gabbana and has worked with his compatriot Sergio Davila to introduce the new collection of couturier.
"Latinos bring this icon sexy, we have the fire inside and it lacks the rest. This is the mischief Latin pass on the catwalk," Noriega told Efe, 19, who settled in the United States to launch his career internationally.
He acknowledged the difficulties faced by Latino faces, but admitted that "gradually being switched ideology so that Anglo-Saxon models all had to be blond and pale." Cree than that, in part, it should be thanked "the many Brazilian models" that there is today.
