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All About Arlenis.(Arlenis Sosa)(Brief article)

Vogue

| November 01, 2008 | Kotur, Alexandra | COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR

Fashion's freshest face makes a more-than-memorable runway debut in New York.

Arlenis! Arlenis!" cries a frantic backstage television reporter, jostling for a word with the leggy, nineteen-year-old Dominican mannequin at Oscar de la Renta' s spring show, held uptown in the gilded grand ballroom of 583 Park Avenue. "How does it feel to be the model of the moment?"

Since appearing in VOGUE this past summer, Arlenis Sosa has skyrocketed into the top-model stratosphere: She walked in 28 spring shows in New York--Carolina Herrera, Narciso Rodriguez, and Ralph Lauren among them--before jetting off to conquer the catwalks of Europe. At de la Renta's collection--"Oscar is from the Dominican Republic, like me!" she said backstage--she scored top honors: opening and closing the show in a color-block maillot and a strapless silver evening dress, respectively, both of which showed ...

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