Cenia Paredes® grew up in family dedicated almost entirely to the fine art of dress making in her native Dominican Republic.  Her mother was a custom made seamstress and Cenia started designing for her mother’s customers at a very early age. Cenia’s mother often had to deal with the difficult situation of having a customer request a dress that was being made for another customer and expect it to look the same way on her… even though both had different body types! Cenia would then redesign the dress to make sure it flattered that specific figure. “How great would it be able to offer this solution to the ready to wear market!” -thought Cenia. Since that early age, Cenia has developed her distinctive fit concept.

After having the opportunity to come to America, Cenia graduated Summa cum Laude from the prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology in 2004. She then worked in New York's competitive fashion district for various renowned brands, but always kept her dream of designing her own line as her ultimate goal. So in 2009, Cenia launched Cenia®, A day into evening dress line that takes pride in it’s quality and blends modern, clean aesthetics and sophistication with a revolutionary fit concept that offers four distinctive fits that cater to the four most predominant female body shapes, and collections created exclusively to flatter and compliment them!

Cenia believes that clothing should be designed with the type of figure it would flatter in mind and always knew that she wanted to design a clothing line that not only represented her vision and design sensibility, but that would also help real women look their best no matter what shape they were!

When designing Cenia® collections, Cenia takes the body shape into consideration in every step of the design development process from the initial concept, to sketching, pattern making, fittings and through production!