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Models wearing clothes from Austin-based designer\u00a0Daizy L\u00f3pez’s fashion brand, Espiritu Libre.<\/p>\n
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A San Antonio-born\u00a0Latina fashion designer and her family are now in the pages of a world-renowned fashion magazine. Vogue’s latest 2026 summer issue puts a special spotlight on the diversity and rich culture of the Lone Star State.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Austin-based designer Daizy L\u00f3pez<\/a> is one of several Texans who were featured in the summer issue, which set out to document the beauty of the state in honor of America’s 250th anniversary. L\u00f3pez was photographed cradling her four-month-old daughter, Nova, alongside her fianc\u00e9, Francisco Rosales, and 3-year-old son, Diego, representing a modern Mexican-American family.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n “It was really an honor to represent Latino, Mexican American families in something as big as Vogue,” Lopez told MySA. “When you think of Vogue, it’s like, celebrities, and high-end fashion designers, and things like that, but this issue is very much more about real people in real roles, real spaces that they take up, here in the area.”\u00a0<\/p>\n A family photo of\u00a0Daizy L\u00f3pez photographed alongside her fianc\u00e9, Francisco\u00a0Rosales, and two children Nova and Diego.<\/p>\n Daizy L\u00f3pez\/Courtesy of Daizy L\u00f3pez<\/p>\n Vogue Fashion Editor Carlos\u00a0Nazario and Photographer Tyler Mitchell embarked on a road trip across Texas this spring to showcase the modern communities and characters that embody the nation’s evolving identity.\u00a0The pair captured dozens of Texans from all walks of life, including an\u00a0Austin-based Charra group<\/a>, Texas Southern University’s dance team and drum line, Black cowboys, and even Quincea\u00f1era dancers from the Rio Grande Valley.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n “We wanted to find a state that we felt represented all of America, so the good, the bad, the ugly and somewhere that felt that it was politically relevant in this moment,” Nazario said\u00a0in a behind-the-scenes video on the summer issue<\/a>. “We wanted to tell a story of America right now. Different types of landscapes, different types of groups of people, rich history, I think Texas checked all those boxes.”<\/p>\n The Vogue shoot included 20 different locations across the state, with L\u00f3pez and her family attending TSU in Houston for their close-up. In the family portrait,\u00a0L\u00f3pez wears a long pink dress while Rosales sports a matching\u00a0floral-print suit, both pieces from\u00a0Willy Chavarria<\/a>, a highly acclaimed Chicano designer whom\u00a0L\u00f3pez described as one of her biggest fashion inspirations.\u00a0<\/p>\n “It just aligned so beautifully and organically, and they put us in the [Willy Chavarria] outfits, and we really felt like super powerful in them also,” \u00a0L\u00f3pez\u00a0said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n L\u00f3pez, who is originally from San Antonio, moved to Austin in 2020 and launched her own brand,\u00a0Espiritu Libre<\/a>, drawing on cultural influences from her Mexican-American upbringing, such as gold jewelry and bright colors.\u00a0Over the past few years, she’s quickly grown her brand’s presence online and in the city through local fashion shows,\u00a0social media posts<\/a> and being active in Austin’s creative community.\u00a0<\/p>\n A model wearing a blue two-piece set with gold chain details from Austin-based designer\u00a0Daizy L\u00f3pez’s fashion brand, Espiritu Libre.<\/p>\n Daizy L\u00f3pez\/Courtesy of Daizy L\u00f3pez<\/p>\n “I feel like the creative community is definitely more apparent out here,” she said. “In San Antonio, I wasn’t around like a lot of other Latino creators, or let alone designers, so like that wasn’t as prevalent, and then coming out here to Austin, and my fianc\u00e9 is also a Latino music artist…so I think just the power of us being\u00a0creatives is what really kind of pushed it full force.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Her hard work led a Vogue casting director to reach out to L\u00f3pez earlier this year on Instagram to be part of the magazine’s summer shoot. Although the exact details of the Texas-sized project were kept under wraps during her shoot, when L\u00f3pez saw the final result of her family and other Texans highlighted in the issue earlier this month, she couldn’t help but feel proud of her roots and accomplishments.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n “We work really hard in what we do, and so to be represented in this way, and like highlighted as me being a creative, and as just being like a family unit is really, it just feels really good, and I think it’s something that we deserve,”\u00a0L\u00f3pez concluded.\u00a0“It’s inspiring for sure to see anybody, locally, let alone, like a Latino doing their thing, and like hustling in spaces like that. I think it’s really awesome, and so we’re just really grateful to have been given the opportunity…it’s a dream.”<\/p>\n Vogue’s summer 2026 issue is now available to order\u00a0online<\/a> and pick up at newsstands nationwide.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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