Today we’d like to introduce you to Winiela Alvarez .
Winiela Alvarez was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She moved to the United States in 2009 and is currently living in the city of Miami, FL.
She is a fashion designer, founder and CEO of Wini Alvarez Design, LLC. A clothing brand established in Florida since April 05, 2016. Former model and beauty pageant. Her first-hand experience in fashion and beauty by a “fluttery” feeling in her stomach guided her to persuade a Fashion career. Family support has been a fundamental pillar in her life and success. She is currently the Zambrano Foundation President and Co-Founder.
Winiela started showing interest in art very early on, from a very young age. She did not attend school full-time until She was eight years old. Winiela became a voracious reader of literature, really love to spent much of her childhood; reading, writing, sewing, designing to dolls and helping her mom to rise her youngest siblings. Her first source of inspiration was her mother, a seamstress who specialized in designing wedding dresses for the most distinguished families in her town as well as her maternal grandmother did. Passion for fashion, sewing and art are in her veins.
“If they cut my veins, I would drain Art.” – Winiela says
Some of Winiela’s most treasured childhood memories are of making dresses with swatches for her dolls while her mother sewed for her clients. She is the fourth of eight siblings, her childhood was filled with love, creativity and family togetherness. Winiela studied Fashion Illustration at (MASSART) Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, and a Fashion Design Bachelor at the Miami International University of Arts and Design. Studied Italian in Switzerland and English in the USA. Winiela is also known as an activist, philanthropist who supports human rights, the immigrant community in the U.S. and underprivileged children who have no access to education.
In 2016, she establish her brand and company in 2018 was registered. She is producing her first Couture Collection, while continuing studies at (AiMIU) Miami International University of Art and Design.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
Being a Venezuelan exile and adapting to my designer’s career in a country where I did not know anybody nor spoke the language became a challenge. But it did not stopped me from achieving my dreams. My priority was to speak the English knowing that I needed to navigate the US fashion world, most importantly when I enrolled for the first time at College in Boston. Nothing stopped me, I asked for help, my husband supported me and my discipline helped me along the way.
Please tell us about Wipinepelapa and Wini Alvarez Design.
Wini Alvarez is an American fashion brand headquartered in Florida. Founded by Venezuela native Winiela Alvarez and stablished since April 5, 2016. Wini Alvarez is a registered brand and logo.
A distinctive sense of elegance of designing reflects its my own modern refined personal style. I wanted to do remarkable things and I love to play with STRUCTURE designing jumpsuits because I love them and love to wear them and to find a couture jumpsuit for an special occasion it’s a theme because is not easy to find a designer with many options to choose a perfect one to the occasion. That’s why i decide to design High Couture Jumpsuits. Feminine, Modern and elegant.
“Only wear jumpsuits if people can really tell that they’re not pajamas”. – Wini Álvarez
LOVE for balance which is highlighted by Wini Alvarez’s First Collection. Each garment is minimal, architectural, and generous in volume. And elegant synthesis of respect and evolution. It’s not about the brand, it’s about the way I see women and how they look and feels. It’s the way you can express yourself being feminine. As a designer I possess a combination of postmodernism, elegant and soft personal style and skills such a modern woman that is adapting to change in this times and that makes me stand out from the crowd.
Everything was about a dream, volume and movement it is the esthetic of the ADN brand. Without know-house and determination, I wouldn’t have come across the opportunities I’ve had in my life. Especially, the opportunity to develop a project that today is a brand and company but before were only fragmented ideas in my notes. I am blessed to have my own company at this juncture in my life.
Has luck played a meaningful role in your life and business?
THE INTUITION. It leads me to the right side of my brain, that is, through creativity, spirituality and the non-linear; and it does not always give me the same result when I’m inspired from the left brain, the logical, the rational.
Contact Info:
- Address: 100 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33131
- Website: http://winialvarez.com/
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/winialvarezofficial?r=nametag
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/winialvarezofficial/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/winialvarez?s=21
- Other: https://wa.me/message/ALFT2EOZQJ6MI1
Image Credit:
Leslie Gabaldon (2 photos with the red short and white t-shirt)
Katty Cantalamessa @kattycphotos
Personal photo by Nina Rodriguez
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