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Small Town Girl, Big Opportunity
Celina Porter, Fashion Designer from Taos, New Mexico, has been invited to produce and show a collection at Vancouver Fashion Week.
Vancouver Fashion Week, which will be held September 28 through October 4, 2015, will feature clothes and accessories for Spring/Summer 2016. This event is an international show with an attendance of 25,000, including celebrities and clothing buyers from major chains, so it is a major opportunity for Celina.
The Fashion Week package includes a full team of professional assistants – models, hairdressers, makeup artists, choreographers and sound technicians. Participation in this event is costly, so Celina has opened a crowd funding account to help her take this important step toward achieving her goal of becoming an internationally-known fashion designer.
To help make this opportunity become a reality, please donate. The deadline for donations is August 5, 2015.
celinakayporter.com
celina@celinakayporter
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Celina Porter grew up in Taos, New Mexico, surrounded by art and the natural beauty of this mountain valley. She had a passion for Flamenco and while working on routines with the yards of skirt, she developed an appreciation for fabric. Celina taught herself to sew and started designing clothes for family and friends. She attended The Art Institute of California in San Francisco which allowed her to further develop her desire to master fabric. After college, she worked in the fashion industry, but found that she wanted to learn more about various avenues of art. This desire led her back home to Taos, where she further developed her style. Besides her love of fabric and design, Celina enjoys painting, bookmaking and jewelry making. Celina currently lives in San Diego, is a licensed esthetician and works at Thérapie Day Spa in Ocean Beach.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My over-arching vision is to create beauty in all aspects of life. My clothing designs are how I express myself; they offer me a way to communicate when words can’t. I like to create things that make me happy, things that I can’t find in stores, and clothes that make other people happy. I find inspiration in Korean culture and K-dramas as well as European history, especially Marie Antoinette and Madame de Pompadour. When I’m designing something, I often ask myself, “If Marie Antoinette were alive now, would she wear this?” A design could be based on a silly sentence, a stimulating conversation, a museum exhibit, a movie. Life itself is inspiring. My designs represent secret inner desires. Many of them hold secrets inside, like a delicate wisp of lace hidden under a skirt. I like to put humor in my clothes. I meditate on my designs before I start to draw or sew and I think about positive things while I’m making them. If I’m making something for a specific person, I put prayers about that person into it. I like to use natural fibers that feel good on the skin -- silk and linen are favorites and I am becoming fond of leather. I love a challenge – I was afraid to make jackets because I didn’t know how, so I taught myself how to make them. And I like to experiment with other fabrics that I am not comfortable with – I made a water-proof bag to hold my watercolors out of tablecloth vinyl. I love working with fabric because of the way it takes on a life of its own or can be controlled depending on the way a person interacts with it. I think that is why, of all the areas of art that I’ve studied, I find working with fabric the best way to express myself and to bring beauty and joy to others.
ALSO
Celina's Designs have cought they eyes of many who attended the Juxtapoz Magazine's 20th anniversary VIP art show opening in Los Angeles, including featrued artis Robrt. Williams.
Celina Porter, Fashion Designer from Taos, New Mexico, has been invited to produce and show a collection at Vancouver Fashion Week.
Vancouver Fashion Week, which will be held September 28 through October 4, 2015, will feature clothes and accessories for Spring/Summer 2016. This event is an international show with an attendance of 25,000, including celebrities and clothing buyers from major chains, so it is a major opportunity for Celina.
The Fashion Week package includes a full team of professional assistants – models, hairdressers, makeup artists, choreographers and sound technicians. Participation in this event is costly, so Celina has opened a crowd funding account to help her take this important step toward achieving her goal of becoming an internationally-known fashion designer.
To help make this opportunity become a reality, please donate. The deadline for donations is August 5, 2015.
celinakayporter.com
celina@celinakayporter
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Celina Porter grew up in Taos, New Mexico, surrounded by art and the natural beauty of this mountain valley. She had a passion for Flamenco and while working on routines with the yards of skirt, she developed an appreciation for fabric. Celina taught herself to sew and started designing clothes for family and friends. She attended The Art Institute of California in San Francisco which allowed her to further develop her desire to master fabric. After college, she worked in the fashion industry, but found that she wanted to learn more about various avenues of art. This desire led her back home to Taos, where she further developed her style. Besides her love of fabric and design, Celina enjoys painting, bookmaking and jewelry making. Celina currently lives in San Diego, is a licensed esthetician and works at Thérapie Day Spa in Ocean Beach.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My over-arching vision is to create beauty in all aspects of life. My clothing designs are how I express myself; they offer me a way to communicate when words can’t. I like to create things that make me happy, things that I can’t find in stores, and clothes that make other people happy. I find inspiration in Korean culture and K-dramas as well as European history, especially Marie Antoinette and Madame de Pompadour. When I’m designing something, I often ask myself, “If Marie Antoinette were alive now, would she wear this?” A design could be based on a silly sentence, a stimulating conversation, a museum exhibit, a movie. Life itself is inspiring. My designs represent secret inner desires. Many of them hold secrets inside, like a delicate wisp of lace hidden under a skirt. I like to put humor in my clothes. I meditate on my designs before I start to draw or sew and I think about positive things while I’m making them. If I’m making something for a specific person, I put prayers about that person into it. I like to use natural fibers that feel good on the skin -- silk and linen are favorites and I am becoming fond of leather. I love a challenge – I was afraid to make jackets because I didn’t know how, so I taught myself how to make them. And I like to experiment with other fabrics that I am not comfortable with – I made a water-proof bag to hold my watercolors out of tablecloth vinyl. I love working with fabric because of the way it takes on a life of its own or can be controlled depending on the way a person interacts with it. I think that is why, of all the areas of art that I’ve studied, I find working with fabric the best way to express myself and to bring beauty and joy to others.
ALSO
Celina's Designs have cought they eyes of many who attended the Juxtapoz Magazine's 20th anniversary VIP art show opening in Los Angeles, including featrued artis Robrt. Williams.