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UTOPIA: Yees Lol. Bless his soul. I don’t think any other designer can quite compare to what he brings us. Yareli: And I’m still here, haha. Yareli: Yes, what he brought. Rest in UTOPIA: It’s all good lol. And I’m peace. happy to hear that you still enjoy modeling. Did you have a different ‘signa- UTOPIA: Now, when people hear ture’ style back then when you started ‘Yareli’, what also comes to mind is VO or was it always had been what you Magazine. Can you tell us how that came to be? have now? found “my place” in IMVU. Yareli: OML! I was a mess in 2010 lol. I had never heard about avant garde or haute couture! I had those big bubble heads and I was all blinged out :D! Lol... But after a year of getting to know the industry, I learned quickly and fell in love with high fashion. Throughout the following years high fashion because my signature look and it still is. I stood out because of my crazy outfits that no one else seemed to find in the shop lol. Yareli: Well, VO was actually an agency at first (back in April 2013). Four months later my colleague Merk suggested to me to make VO a magazine as well; I loved the idea and VO Magazine was born! Yareli: I had never owned a magazine so it was a new idea and challenge. UTOPIA: And it’s so well put together, and it opened up to so much new UTOPIA: And I’m certain that they’re things to many people in the Modeling always on point lol. Has there been industry. Will there be more issues in anyone who have been an inspiration the future? to you when you modeled, on IMVU or Yareli: Thank you :D And yes there’s Real Life? an issue coming soon, The Lost Issue. Yareli: Alexander McQueen always!