User:Christopher Abella

Christopher Abella, Artist & Fashion Designer, is twelve years old and attends an Expressive Arts Magnet Art Program in Miami, Florida, one of only a few select, talent, and audition-based visual arts programs in the nation. Christopher's sensitive line quality, amazing compositional sense, as well as his creativity and dedication to his art has made him one of the top young artists in the county. His artwork has been shown in a variety of art exhibitions throughout the city, and has won awards.

Christopher's passion and future ambition is to be a fashion designer. He has completed the sketching of a variety of collections, which have been exhibited at four solo exhibitions, as well as on eight TV interviews, Univision, Primer Impacto; Channel 7 News; Telemundo, Al Rojo Vivo; Mega TV, Maria Elvira Live; America TeVe, El Show de Fernando Hidalgo; Univision, Despierta America; and CBS4 News. On June 16th, 2011, Trio on the Bay, at North Bay Village, Florida, hosted Christopher’s debut as a Fashion Designer presenting a Red Carpet collection. Christopher is one of three finalists for the 2012 Miami Beach International Fashion Week,International Student Designer Competition.

Ms. Tracy Ellyn, a 7th Avenue Fashion Designer and Christopher’s Instructor from Art Atelier Inc., recently wrote, “I have been a fashion designer for nearly thirty years, and when in New York, I worked for such names as Diane Von Furstenberg, Christian Dior, and Argenti. But never in my years did I ever see someone so very young with the sophistication and imagination it requires to be a true designer. He seems to have an early understanding of the elegance of the female proportion and the fabrications and design elements required to carry it out.”