We talk with Jordana Guimaraes Co-Founder, Fashinnovation and a serial entrepreneur. Jordana Guimaraes originally hails from Rio de Janeiro. She started her own marketing & PR consultancy, which she ran for 16 years, where she worked with brands including Nina Ricci Jewelry, Porsche Design Accessories, Lanvin, etc.

Jordana then created The NYLON Project, and recently wrote the book, It Can Be You (May, 2021) to humanize homelessness via the voices of fashion influencers, and most recently co-founded FASHINNOVATION with her husband, Marcelo in 2018.

FASHINNOVATION is a community & events platform that connects entrepreneurs and innovators to create revolutionary change in the fashion industry, especially through technology.

Personal Instagram: @aclbyjojo

Book I wrote - being published in May, 2021: www.thenylonproject.com

Con Gusto interviews Rukshan Then (producer) and Laura Rivas (director) of Tiny Laughs.

As the children of immigrants, the team recently premiered the digital-series Tiny Laughs that reflected their views and the stories both Laura and Rukshan accumulated growing up in LA and pursuing their passions.

Tiny Laughs follows an overworked queer Latina architect that meets a struggling Asian comic at an improv class. Their instant spark sends them on a humorous and heartwarming journey through the City of Angels where love and ambition collide in the millennial age.

TINY LAUGHS:

https://www.tinylaughs.com/

For many decades the beauty and fashion industires have shunned the plus-size market in terms of marketing, sales and exposure and overall igroning an untapped market. But now that is changing.

Con Gusto talks with one of the leaders in the forefront in the modeling industry affecting true change in the industry; Danny Reyes.

Danny is Head Agent with L.A based modeling agency Natural Model Management that let's models be healthy and happy, while providing them with an opportunity to work as a model at their natural body shape and size.

We talk about how more and more media, beauty and fashion companies are now intent on representing more types of curve models in inclusive and diversve ways such as ground breaking covers on glossy magazines to more clothing options for women size 14 and up.

http://www.naturalmodelsla.com/

Amid the backdrop of YET AGAIN another shooting of a black man by police and ensuing peaceful protests, we are joined by Nelson Tavares a fashion designer from New York City who has publicly called out the discrimination in the fashion industry.

We talk about various ways the industry is regularly profiting off black and brown bodies and culture and how black and brown industry professionals feel trapped in a cycle that perpetuates racism.

Amid the backdrop of YET AGAIN another shooting of a black man by police and ensuing peaceful protests, we are joined by Nelson Tavares a fashion designer from New York City who has publicly called out the discrimination in the fashion industry.

We talk about various ways the industry is regularly profiting off black and brown bodies and culture and how black and brown industry professionals feel trapped in a cycle that perpetuates racism.

In this episode, we catch up with Javi and Gaby as the world is turned on its' head due to the stay at home orders affecting everyone during a worldwide pandemic, COVID-19. The duo interviews Valentina Ramirez, founder & creative director of A lot Studios and recalls her collabortive work with fashion icons such as Donna Karan and Rihanna, the mission behind her fashion collective.

In this interview, we are joined by Luis Peralta a Washington D.C based artist who has won numerous awards and recognition from many institutions. He has been commissioned by businesses, foundations, public institutions, museums, and private collectors to create murals, portraits, sculptures, and paintings of various themes.

Luis has exhibited his works at various museums and institutions including; NCIS headquarters, V.A., The Embassy of Italy, The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, The Historical Society of Washington DC, The Vatican Embassy, and the Frederick Douglass­Isaac Myers Museum in Baltimore, MD.

We discuss his personal journey to the United States, how his experience throughout the years in the art space has affected his body of work and his early work and inspiration that led a young Luis Peralta to pursue an art profession.

Luis Peralta Gallery:

https://www.luisperaltagallery.com/

Welcome to the very first episode of the Con Gusto Podcast, a show for and about Latinx creatives in the art, design, and fashion world. Co-host Javi Sanchez and Gaby Rameriez talk about why it's important to have a space for Latinx creatives in the podcast world to share personal and professional journeys in the art, design and fashion space.