Fashion Week will promote Bronx looks

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A Bronx-born fashionista is making a bid to put the borough on the map right alongside Manhattan and Brooklyn.

South Bronx native Flora Montes is holding Bronx Fashion Week from Friday, Sept. 5 to Sunday, Sept. 7 at the Andrew Freedman Home on the Grand Concourse.

She said 75 designers and six businesses she contacted voiced enthusiastic support for her undertaking, although she did not specify how many would participate in shows. Event details should be up on www.bronxfw.com soon.

A chef who grew up in the south Bronx, Ms. Flores said she come up with the idea for Bronx Fashion Week after attending a forum called Latina Fashion Week. 

She explained she wants “to bring high fashion runway shows to the Bronx and take the borough to a whole other level.”

Ms. Flores hopes Bronx Fashion Week will boost business in the borough and showcase designers with local ties 

But is there a Bronx “look?”

To hear it from designer Jenissa Lopez, it’s a work in progress.

Ms. Lopez said Bronx fashion has a rawer feel than styles born in Brooklyn or Manhattan. Residents also put a premium on originality.

“Everyone in the Bronx has their own look,” she said.

The Sept. 5 show is scheduled to focus on high fashion, the Sept. 6 show on urban and casual clothes and the Sept. 6 show on couture. A skateboard competition is also expected for Sept. 6.

Who knows? The next Ralph Lauren or Calvin Klein — both graduates of DeWitt Clinton High School — just might show up. 

Bronx Fashion Week, Flora Montes, Jenissa Lopez, Sabrina Segura

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