Albania Rosario

United States

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Albania Rosario is the Founder and Creative Director of Fashion Designers of Latin America. Originally from the Dominican Republic, she uprooted and moved to the New York City with her parents in December of 2000. 18 years old Albania began to pursue her academic career, at CUNY Hunter College. She didn’t even speak english. now she is a successful entrepreneur, she runs multiple businness and its the founder and creative director at Fashion Designers of Latin America (previously Uptown Fashion Week), bringing Latin American designers to the world stage at New York Fashion Week and around the world. In addition to a range of talent from Latin America, the platform has attracted a plethora of talent, including designers such as Michael Costello, Marc Bouwer, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada and most recently Carolina Herrera.

Rosario’s background in advertising marketing and communications has helped her cultivate relationships with her local communities, bringing sponsors to her organization like Delta Air Lines, Hispanic Federation, Moët Hennessy USA, to name a few.

“9 Years ago I was working as a volunteer for NYFW and seeing the lack of opportunities for emergent upcoming latino designers I had a vision and that vision was to create a platform thay will allow these designers to be part of the fashion circuit in NYFW” Said Rosario.

9 years later Fashion Designers of Latin America it is that platform that recognizes and expose the outstanding contributions made to Latin America and the world by the latin designers.

It’s now been 18 years since Rosario, came from not knowing any english to running a global fashion platform that has helped develop Latin American designers to their fullest potential.

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