Meet Designer Anna Fong

Fashion designer Anna Fong, who is of Guatemalan and Chinese descent, reflects a new segment of the fashion industry - Latino designers based out of Chicago. Educated at Columbia College Chicago, Fong worked for various design houses in New York before moving back home to Chicago to create her own line. Her clothing is made for “women with curves.” She even goes so far to describe a particular dress she created as not able to be worn by women who don’t have a rear end. That leaves us out, we guess:

Fong, 30, last summer beat out hundreds of applicants from across the U.S. to win AOL Latino’s first Fashionista competition, an online reality contest. Another Chicago designer, 26-year-old Horacio Nieto, took the top prize this year.

Fong and Nieto both will show at this fall’s Chicago Latino Fashion Week, Oct. 22-Nov. 2.

And last spring, the producers of Chicago Latino Fashion Week launched the first Chicago Latino Fashion Designer Competition; the winners will showcase their designs at fashion week.

“It’s been an exciting year for Latino designers,” said Cesar Rolon, president of marketing firm Imagen Consultants and the executive producer of Chicago Latino Fashion Week. “We’ve opened a lot of doors.”

Anna’s designs feature a lot of body-skimming dresses and rompers that accentuate curves. It’s what a film noir’s femme fatale would wear while smoking a cigarette under a street lamp. Check out some of her designs and see if you agree:

Fashionably hip [Chicago Tribune]