Meet Steven Trujillo owner of El Salon and creator of Leon Designs. El Salon will provide hair styling and Leon Design will be featured in the Whiteout fashion show at Denver Westword’s Artopia. This culture, art, and fashion event will be opening its doors TOMORROW at 7pm at City Hall Denver. If you’re still in need of last minute tickets, grab them here! And don’t forget to use promo code fahsiondenver for a discount!
Q:When did you first know you wanted to be a fashion designer?
A:I’m humbled by this question. There are so many fashion designers I admire who devote their lives to fashion design.
I have always been a designer from hair, to fashion, to jewelry, and even to my garden ever since I was young. I consider myself more of an artist who is passionate about design. My family made sure at a young age that I could and would do large scale design projects. No one said I couldn’t!
Q:Where do you draw inspiration from?
A:Wow! Everything, I would say. All my surroundings from textiles, to landscape, to food, but I’m most inspired by artists like Marilyn Minter at the Contemporary Museum, … Read more!
venture, an online men’s magazine in 2008. Including my daughter in the business was important to me but she was very young at the time. So, as she was growing up, I took fashion courses at the Art Institute of Colorado. I learned to channel my creativity