Lisa Thon
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Lisa Thon is a fashion designer born in San Juan
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...

, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

. After graduating from high school, Thon began her studying fashion at the Altos de Chavón
Altos de Chavón
The biggest attraction in La Romana, Dominican Republic, is Altos de Chavón, a re-creation of a medieval European village conceived from the imagination of Roberto Copa, a former Paramount Studios set designer, and Charles Bluhdorn....

 in Dominican Republic and completed her Bachelors Degree at Parsons School of Design
Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School For Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is the art and design college of The New School university. It is located in New York City's Greenwich Village, and has produced artists and designers such as Marc Jacobs, Dean and Dan Caten, Norman Rockwell, Donna Karan, Jane...

 in New York City.

In 1996, Thon established her brand recognition, and opened her store and Fashion Design School in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They are located at 992 Muñoz Rivera Avenue (one of the most commercial avenues of the island), nearby the University of Puerto Rico.

Singers and actresses have been dressed by Thon for special events, editorials, magazine covers, CDs portraits and music videos.
She has been awarded by the IXA Awards the ¨2004 Designer of the Year¨ and the ¨2004 School of the Year¨ at the Paoli Awards.
Thon presented her first collection to the American market at the Midtown Exhibition Center in the Parsons New School for Design on September 2005. Lisa, then showed her Spring-Summer 2007 collection to be presented in Olympus Fashion Week on September 2006.
She presented her new collection as part of the New York Fashion Week on September 6 2007, on Bryant Park Grill.
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