MetroVanIndependent.com
October 2015
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Lifestyle / Entertainment
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman proclaimed June 3rd as “David Tupaz Day” to recognize David’s great
contribution to the city’s fashion industry.
Filipino Gem, David Tupaz
“Success for me really matters in a
way that it depends on a person or an
individual’s level of content. Sometimes I
kinda want to wake up in the morning and
look at myself in the mirror and say I don’t
need anything more.”
David added, “More than the success
is the recognition of your peers or the
people that believe and support what you
do because I always believe that it is what
you can give and not what you can get.
That’s the culture we grew up in that is
something so innate in the Filipino culture
that it is what we can give.”
that has to change.”
As a magazine editor-in-chief, David
Tupaz recently launched the fashion
industry in Las Vegas through its first
fashion magazine called L’VEGUE, a
quarterly magazine highlighting all the
talented creative people who live in the city.
Thus, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman
proclaimed June 3rd as “David Tupaz Day”
to recognize David’s great contribution to
the city’s fashion industry.
In 2011, David established a non-profit
organization called the Las Vegas Design
Council to help the creative growth of the
local designers to build an industry in the
city. “The fashion industry doesn’t exist in
this part of the country,” says Tupaz. “It
is like in New York or LA but never in Las
Vegas. As I always say, Vegas is the last
frontier, the last glamorous city in America
that hasn’t been tapped yet. So it is the
perfect venue to create another kind of
industry and what’s more exciting than
fashion?”
Tupaz adds, “famous people know me
because I worked with them