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our work? And many other questions came to my mind when starting this adventure, but I remained positive and faithfully believe in God.
We then produced our own events and had international guests present in the training of our students. Everything went well in 2019, our first year, and we closed that year with incredible energy.
Our students didn’t want to show
up to practice due to uncertainties surrounding the pandemic. Cases were growing (and are still growing) in South Florida. I felt my heart breaking into a thousand pieces and saw my dream slip away. Not having our students weeks after weeks, and seeing that the whole situation wouldn’t get better in a month or two, we had to close the academy. It was an unfortunate situation. We had to remove everything from the establishment and moved them to a warehouse. You can imagine how painful that was! My only source of income was taken away from me! Everything that I had been putting my sweat, efforts, and dedication
Thankfully it didn’t stay like this
different events and began to grow.
everything.
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I managed to have all the rooms
in an expansive and very well
distributed location, just as I
dreamed it. It has a main room
with the Catwalk, etiquette &
protocol room, makeup room, and
photography studio. Everything
came out as planned. Over a few
months, we gradually started to
have male and female models
interested in our program. Designers
began to reach out for our models,
and producers wanted to put shows
together with us. We accumulated
many invitatio“ns to participate in COVID-19 hit and paralyzed into...
2020 was also started incredibly; at the beginning of February, we held
a show in a shopping center in the south of Miami that gave us much impetus, and many folks began contacted us. We had about six shows planned in the year, including Miami Fashion Week, Swim Week, both in Miami and in other states. We were beginning to grow a following outside of Miami, but unfortunately, at the beginning of March 2020,
I have had significant achievements in my career as a model. What I
have learned over the years is what I now share with my students daily at House of Top Models.
for long. My faith in God prevailed, and I knew that it could not remain that way forever. My team spent a whole year working hard to have a
name, positioned ourselves in the modeling industry, have enough
students who will trust and wait for this entire situation to
improve to continue training with us; it had to get better.
We did not let a month go by without looking for a solution. At the
beginning of July, we began to find
spaces that were available to
start over. Long story
short, that
is how I got the place where we are located today.
House of Top Models reopened
its doors in August 2020 to start its courses again for children, teens, and adults. It has definitely been a rebirth. Words cannot explain what it was like for me to spend these five months closed without knowing if we would reopen or not. It has been a
blessing from God to have this second chance, now close to the DORAL area, a super commercial location that has worked incredibly for us since our reopening date.
In our new site, we have a main room for the catwalk classes, with a perfect stage for the students to feel
like they’re doing a “Runway Show” each style, makeup room, etiquette & protocol room, a small & practical photo studio. Our mission is to form integral models in our academy. Being critical is nothing more than having a balanced personality, with a good development of all its aspects; that is, the intellectual, the emotional, the spiritual, and the social matters, among others. In other words, to
train our students in such a way that they can develop themselves in any environment.
Our program includes Catwalk, etiquette & protocol, diction & oratory, image & style, makeup, photo pose, trends, creativity craft, and presentation for the little ones. We admit male and female students
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