Fashion Houston has traditionally been a place to showcase new talent, models strutting down the catwalk dressed in labels that no one had ever heard of. The even serves to give young designers a venue to show their line.
Vietnamese immigrant Viet Kent Nguyen is one of the designers showing work at Fashion Houston. He arrived in the United States nearly a decade ago and hit the ground running, explaining that he had to work extra hard to learn English. After he earned his citizenship, he started teaching basic tailoring at Houston Community College.
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Amir Taghi is another young designer, just 17 years old and still attending high school in the area. He received design training as an intern for Oscar de la Renta, taking on daily challenges like constructing pieces from certain materials or finding the right bolt of fabric in New York stores.
Jo’se Reyes, born in Hawaii, is a third designer who will participate in Fashion Houston. He said he had always been interested in fashion design, watching pageants on television simply to marvel at the way the evening gowns were fashioned together.
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