Yes! Guatemala is making fashion

YES! GUATEMALA IS MAKING FASHION
La campaña de CMGT Octubre 2012

Inspired in Richard Avedon's work, the CMGT (Circuito Moda Guatemala a.k.a Guatemala Fashion Week) advertising campaign is getting harder and harder... When Manny Rionda went to New York for the Elsa Schiaparelli exhibition and came back to Guatemala, he shared me his idea and then, showed me the final work for the CMGT Advertising. I just thought about all this years of hard work from many designers, photographers, editors and promotores during the last decade. Now, we finally have a very strong movement which involves all this people full of talent and love for fashion... As my dear Maria Cristina Acquaroni said, Yes! Guatemala is making fashion!

Inspirado en el trabajo de Richard Avedon, la campaña de CMGT (Circuito Moda Guatemala) se viene cada vez más fuerte... Cuando Manny Rionda visitó Nueva York para la exposición de Elsa Schiaparelli y regresó a Guatemala., me platicó su idea para la campaña de CMGT y un tiempo después, me compartió el trabajo final, simplemente pensé en todos estos años de trabajo que muchos diseñadores, editores y promotores de arte han venido realizando durante más de una década para que ahora, finalmente, tengamos un movimiento de moda emergente, prometedor y sobre todo 100% guatemalteco.

Como dijo mi querida colega Maria Cristina Acquaroni. ¡Si! Guatemala está haciendo moda.

From Guate With Love...
Nando

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 From left to right (de derecha a izquierda) :

-GabrielaCamacho, Mónica Niedeheitmann & Andrea Villacorta from Look Magazine
- Fashion Photographer Manny Rionda
- Stylist Mercedes Molina
- Nando Yax (Me)
- Model, actress & it girl Lola Vásquez
- Promoter Hugo Hernández
- Blogger and promoter Carolina Anzueto
- Stylist, tv host & blogger Maria Cristina Acquaroni
- Marisa Alburez, editor at The Stylish Crowd magazine
- Maris Díaz, jewel designer
- Cristina Reyna, Edgar Navarro & José Ramírez, Escarlata designers
- Jose Medina, upcoming fashion designer
- Mynor Véliz, upcoming fashion designer
- Luis Carlos Quintana, Estilo Quetzal, designer and Morena (art / design) shop founder
- Liz Tanner, upcoming fashion designer
- Alejandra Paiz, upcoming model
- Guillermo Jop, Guishem head designer and owner
- Eduardo Figueroa, Fashion designer
- Marion Blasberg, model
- Mauricio Samayoa, Morpho head designer and owner.
- Ximena Toriello, on of the first muses for Morpho
- Gloria Escobar, accesories designer
- Adriana & Fabiana Gonzáles, AdrianaFabiana bags owners/designers.

 P.S
There are some key people missing... hope they can join the picture next time! :)

P.D
En esta fotografía aún hay personas clave que hacen falta... espero se puedan unir al próximo photoshoot! :)