In The Moda - Hispanic Designer Fashion Show on Thursday at the West Tampa Convention Center

As an aspiring fashion designer in the 1980s, Sonia Grays dealt with lots of rejection.

“It was difficult to get anyone to even look at my designs,” says Grays, 53, a Puerto Rican who grew up in Chicago. “Even if you wanted a job as a window dresser, if you didn’t know someone at the store, they wouldn’t even see you. No one paid attention to Hispanic designers back then.”

Decades later, Grays is giving up-and-coming Latino designers a venue to showcase their moda, or fashion.”*

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