El veintisiete de enero/January 27th
Photo from Vogue Italia Encylo. Click HERE ¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Narciso Rodríguez! (1961- ) An award-winning fashion designer who became a household name when he designed Carolyn Bessette's dress for her wedding to John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1996, Rodríguez was born in Newark, New Jersey to Cuban parents who had come here in search of the American Dream. As such, they were not thrilled when their son told them he wanted to be a designer (they were hoping for lawyer, or doctor, as Rodriguez explains in this interview (in Spanish) with CNN (Click HERE for my AP/S4 lesson on this interview). "They may not have understood my choices, but their actions taught me to take risks and have courage. They left their home in Cuba and came to a country where they didn't even speak the language," explains Rodríguez to Forbes writer Jessica Pliska in a 2016 interview , adding, "Even when I got a top job at Calvin Klein my mother offered, 'It isn...