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 New York fashion debut: dream or nightmare?
    September 18 2003 at 06:45PM Get IOL on your
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By Ellen Wulfhorst

New York - Having a dream come true can be scary.

Just ask Sebastian Pons, one of the highly anticipated young designers showing his first-ever collection in the semi-annual fashion week in New York.

Nine months spent creating designs, learning to embroider in India, lining up manufacturers and working 19 hours a day on the final presentation boil down to just 15, maybe 17, minutes on a runway on Friday before the most critical eyes in the industry.

'Of course it's scary, but what isn't scary today?'
"Of course it's scary, but what isn't scary today?" the exuberant 31-year-old designer said this week. "I've always dreamed about doing this in this city, and now its my time. I don't want to be scared. I want to be excited and happy. This is my dream come true.
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"It's scary, but I'm very excited," he concluded.

But the Majorcan-born Pons is no newcomer to fashion. Not only does he say he was making fashion drawings for his mother as a child, but he spent many years working for fashion powerhouses - the iconoclastic fellow Majorcan Miguel Adrover and the English master of spectacle Alexander McQueen.

"Pons has a lot of promise with his background," said Robert Janjigian, fashion editor of the Palm Beach Daily News, the hometown paper to many of the socialites who fill the seats at fashion week. "He has great credentials."

The Independent of London has credited Pons with "visceral inventiveness," "doe-eyed charm" and "convincing enthusiasm".

"Next summer, if all goes well, Sebastian Pons' customers will be congratulating themselves on having sought out a hot new European fashion label," The Independent wrote this month.

Pons isn't starting small. The theme of his show, he said, is "the odyssey of my life."

"The history of mankind, the history of art, anthropology, philosophy, literature - I can translate all these things that I like into clothes," Pons said.


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