VENTURA – Dreams of a Young Heart

Jose Ventura is an emerging fashion designer building a luxury brand, VENTURA.  

Jose wanted a career where he could help people feel better about themselves and for years and years he thought this would mean becoming a doctor. His now husband, Josh, encouraged him to pursue fashion because of the incredibly inspiring drawings he would find around their apartment that Jose said were “just doodles”. 

The VENTURA brand is inspired by hard working women everywhere, but namely Jose’s mother who opened a salon in the Dominican Republic and at times painted nails by candlelight to put food on the table! Literally burning the midnight oil. That same woman left what is still a thriving business in the Dominican Republic to become a cleaner in New York to make a better life for her children in the United States. Jose wants this brand to empower people to dig deep and realize they are strong and they can do anything they set their mind to accomplish. Jose wants to use his clothes to help make people feel confident which will in turn bring them success. 

Jose took on fashion school to learn the trade at Parson’s School of Design and immediately took on this journey to build a brand. In his first year, he participated as a designer in New York Fashion week (See Video Below) as well as fashion week in his native country, The Dominican Republic. Additionally, VENTURA did an exposition at Espacio Vogue in Miami and dressed a small group of celebrities for various events throughout this year. 

Ventura is working on his next collection and brand expansion and with your help he will not only be able to put this collection into production but he will present in New York Fashion week (and Milan if we surpass our goal and hit 25K). 

So far VENTURA has been self funded from savings,  friends and family. We are looking for Kickstarter backers to help us expose the VENTURA brand on these major stages in New York and Milan to help us build a following and hopefully some new customers 🙂