Thank you Mami

When I first started school at the age of five, I didn’t spend my afternoons like most students in my class. I didn’t go home and watch TV or run around the park, but I went to work with my single mom, Luisa, at an evening fashion design school. I spent my evenings in an industrial classroom, filled with sewing machines, mannequins, and fabric scraps, not something you would commonly see in the farm country of the Dominican Republic. As soon as I finished my homework, I was allowed to go into the fabric swatch box. I quickly learned to cut and sew them together by hand. With in a few years, my mother taught me to thread the machines, and soon I started to use them as she nervously watched. I been passionate about fashion design since the time I stepped foot in my mother’s classroom. <3