Ximena Valero
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Ximena Valero is a Mexican International Fashion
Designer, and the winner of 2007 International Award for Designer of the Year for Excellence in Evening Wear of Miami's Fashion Week. She made her name in Tijuana
and now lives in Los Angeles.
, May 26, 1977 to Carmen Jarillo-Yañez, a school teacher and housewife, and José L. Valero, M.D. a plastic surgeon. Ximena's parents moved to Tijuana, Mexico in 1982. She started studying fashion during summer breaks at the age of 8. It was at her mother's influence that she began to study fashion and couture lessons in Tijuana. At which point, fashion design grew to be her passion, eventually leading her to become a student of fashion design at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, in neighboring San Diego. She started designing women's apparel in her first workshop in Tijuana, in the late 1990s. In 1999, She met renowned photographer Seth Sabal with whom she moved to San Diego with and later married in 2001. The couple moved to New York City where she collaborated/co-founded Sabal's fashion photography studio. She was introduced to Victoria's Secret CEO, Grace Nichols by a studio employee. She was subsequently offered and did an internship in the design department Victoria's Secret & Limited Brands. After her 4 month internship ended she started working in New York as a free-lance fashion designer. She collaborated in NYC's prestigious Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2006, introducing the New Faces of Elite Model Management. Sabal and Valero divorced in early 2006; she moved back to the Tijuana-San Diego area. During the following two years, she developed new designs incorporating Frida Kalhlo's look into her apparel creations and also designed women's shoes and pets apparel. By late 2007, she moved to Los Angeles, where she has her current workshop and showroom studio. During 2007 and 2008, she has appeared in several Fashion Week scenarios around Latin America and the US, and she was the winner of 2007 International Award for Designer of the Year for Excellence in Evening Wear in 2007's Miami's Fashion Week. On October 14, 2008, she was appointed one of 15 members of 2008's Tijuana's Hall of Fame, at the Canaco (National Chamber of Commerce), selected by the Tijuana's Image Committee, headed by Tijuana's tycoon, José Galicot Behar. Her major contribution to fashion in 2009 undoubtedly, was the so-called "Transformable" Fashion, that is, women's apparel that can be worn in many different ways.
, Alejandra Guzmán
, Lorena Rojas, Jessica Alba
, Alicia Keys
and Ana de la Reguera. and supermodels Tiiu Kuik
, Julia Dunstall
, Cintia Dicker
, Juliana Imai, Zuleyka Rivera Ciara, and Daniela Kosan.
Fashion
Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person...
Designer, and the winner of 2007 International Award for Designer of the Year for Excellence in Evening Wear of Miami's Fashion Week. She made her name in Tijuana
Tijuana
Tijuana is the largest city on the Baja California Peninsula and center of the Tijuana metropolitan area, part of the international San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area. An industrial and financial center of Mexico, Tijuana exerts a strong influence on economics, education, culture, art, and politics...
and now lives in Los Angeles.
Biography
She was born in Mexico CityMexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, May 26, 1977 to Carmen Jarillo-Yañez, a school teacher and housewife, and José L. Valero, M.D. a plastic surgeon. Ximena's parents moved to Tijuana, Mexico in 1982. She started studying fashion during summer breaks at the age of 8. It was at her mother's influence that she began to study fashion and couture lessons in Tijuana. At which point, fashion design grew to be her passion, eventually leading her to become a student of fashion design at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, in neighboring San Diego. She started designing women's apparel in her first workshop in Tijuana, in the late 1990s. In 1999, She met renowned photographer Seth Sabal with whom she moved to San Diego with and later married in 2001. The couple moved to New York City where she collaborated/co-founded Sabal's fashion photography studio. She was introduced to Victoria's Secret CEO, Grace Nichols by a studio employee. She was subsequently offered and did an internship in the design department Victoria's Secret & Limited Brands. After her 4 month internship ended she started working in New York as a free-lance fashion designer. She collaborated in NYC's prestigious Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2006, introducing the New Faces of Elite Model Management. Sabal and Valero divorced in early 2006; she moved back to the Tijuana-San Diego area. During the following two years, she developed new designs incorporating Frida Kalhlo's look into her apparel creations and also designed women's shoes and pets apparel. By late 2007, she moved to Los Angeles, where she has her current workshop and showroom studio. During 2007 and 2008, she has appeared in several Fashion Week scenarios around Latin America and the US, and she was the winner of 2007 International Award for Designer of the Year for Excellence in Evening Wear in 2007's Miami's Fashion Week. On October 14, 2008, she was appointed one of 15 members of 2008's Tijuana's Hall of Fame, at the Canaco (National Chamber of Commerce), selected by the Tijuana's Image Committee, headed by Tijuana's tycoon, José Galicot Behar. Her major contribution to fashion in 2009 undoubtedly, was the so-called "Transformable" Fashion, that is, women's apparel that can be worn in many different ways.
Celebrities dressed by Ximena Valero
Ximena Valero has dressed celebrities Paulina RubioPaulina Rubio
Paulina Susana Rubio Rue is a Mexican singer and actress. Rubio achieved international stardom with her fifth studio album, Paulina...
, Alejandra Guzmán
Alejandra Guzmán
Alejandra Gabriela Guzmán Pinal , better known as Alejandra Guzmán, is a Latin Grammy Award–winning Mexican rock singer and actress. She has had a dedicated fanbase throughout Latin America since the late 1980s, and is known as the "Queen of Rock" in the Hispanic world...
, Lorena Rojas, Jessica Alba
Jessica Alba
Jessica Marie Alba is an American television and film actress. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack . Alba rose to prominence as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel...
, Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook , better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano...
and Ana de la Reguera. and supermodels Tiiu Kuik
Tiiu Kuik
-Early life:Born in Tallinn, Estonia, Kuik was discovered at age 13 in an Estonian supermarket by model scout Paolo Moglia. She was then sent to Japan for modeling work, and after that, to Italy...
, Julia Dunstall
Julia Dunstall
Julia Dunstall is a Canadian fashion model. She has been in ad campaigns for Balenciaga, Lacoste, United Colors of Benetton, D&G and Bottega Veneta, among others...
, Cintia Dicker
Cintia Dicker
Cintia Dicker is a Brazilian model of German descent.She was born in Campo Bom, Rio Grande do Sul. She has appeared in advertisements for Ann Taylor, Macy's, L’Oréal, American Eagle Outfitters, and Yves Saint Laurent, and in catalogs for Victoria's Secret, Gap, bebe stores, and Lands' End...
, Juliana Imai, Zuleyka Rivera Ciara, and Daniela Kosan.