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Marbin Orlando Valladares was born in Jersey City, New Jersey but spent most of his time in New York City. During his younger years, Orlando enrolled at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ attending courses in Marketing. He later redirected his studies to Graphic Design still studying Marketing and concluded his training at Montclair State University with double majors.In 1998, Orlando launch H6K (Hombre 6000) and www.h6k.com, the first ever Fashion Lifestyle Avant-Garde Magazine for English-speaking Hispanic Men thus starting a Media trend. During this period, H6K allowed Valladares to form close working relationships with some of the top fashion photographers, models, celebrities, stylist and established featured designers. However, Orlando is no stranger to the camera either seeing as he’s been featured in several magazines, newspapers, TV programs including Fox News, Rockers, NYTV21 and Radio stations such as Hot 97 and La Mega.In 2000 after taking H6K’s circulation up to 100K, Hearst Publication met with Orlando to discuss partnering/buying H6K. By 2002, Orlando Valladares decided to sell H6K Magazine to ValMar Trading Company and turn his fashion involvement away from editorial toward fashion design. Since then, Valladares has had collaborations with such brands as Le Tigre, Von Dutch, NYNE, Liz Claiborne, Dupri, Sean John, Echo, Penguin, Eddie Bauer, New Balance, Macoris, Equal Jean to name a few.By 2003, Orlando announced the creation of the kenstruzTd brand. kenstruzTd is the culmination of Valladares’ experience as a fashion designer. The high-end inspired line of kenstruzTd was introduced in New York City, and featured trucker caps with a rugged, sophisticated and fashionable edge, and a limited collection of edgy, fashion forward tees.THE PHILOSOPHY kenstruzTd is a celebration of women, rock, sex appeal, creativity and unpredictable mixing of street culture and formal wear. Beautiful women, musical movements, blended with “street chic” and Orlando’s own casual and sophisticated style, heavily influence each line. These fundamental elements along with the durable fabrics used have led to the company motto: “Constructed to be Trusted”. You can be sure each collection will be filled with elite luxury. So season after season, kenstruzTd will continue to bring you edgy sophistication and sex appeal.THE NAME Why kenstruzTd. Orlando admires the way Germans design; whether it's graphic design or fashion he says, “They do it really well”. Plus he loves German cars and women! So when combining the two words constructed and trusted he came up with kenstruzTd, which looks similar but pronounced different than konstruiert - constructed in German. Orlando doesn’t care that the name is difficult to pronounce because ‘if you want it and like it you will learn it.kenstruzTd it’s sold exclusively on www.kenstruzTd.comMore kenstruzTd coming soon...
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Trends in Hispanic Magazine Advertising 2002 (is it ever going to change)

The overall picture from the U.S. Hispanic Magazine market is mixed with both good news and not-so-good news. The good news is that the market has received lots of attention of late from publishers wa...
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