✨ Navidad’s Next Top Model
Celebrating Confidence, Community & Every Beautiful Moment
Navidad’s Next Top Model is a heartwarming community program created especially for senior citizens and children with special needs, bringing generations and abilities together for an unforgettable afternoon of encouragement, friendship, laughter, and celebration.
With the support of community volunteers, beauty professionals, photographers, runway escorts, local leaders, businesses, families, and friends, our models are treated like stars from beginning to end.
From hair and makeup to the excitement of walking the runway, the experience is about much more than fashion. It is a place where participants feel seen, celebrated, confident, and loved; where generations come together; and where abilities do not define possibilities.
Most of all, it is a celebration made possible by families who entrust us with their loved ones and by a community that comes together to cheer each model on for exactly who they are.
❤️ Because everyone deserves their moment to shine.
📸 2026 Event Highlights — A Day to SHINE!
On Saturday, August 8, 2026, Navidad En El Barrio welcomed our seniors, children with special needs, families, volunteers, and community supporters to BakerRipley | Ripley House Campus for another memorable Navidad’s Next Top Model celebration.
🌟 Our 2026 Celebration Brought Together:
👵👴🧒❤️ 20 Senior & Special Needs Models
👨👩👧👦 Too Many Smiles to Count! - Family Members & Guests
🙌 Volunteer team inlcuded
💇♀️ ## Hairstylists
💄 ## Makeup Artists
🤝 Event Volunteers & Support Team
📸 ## Photographers
🚶♀️🚶♂️ ## Runway Escorts
🤝 ## Sponsors & Community Partners
✨ Throughout the Afternoon, Our Models:
💇♀️ Enjoyed special hair styling
💄 Were pampered by volunteer makeup artists
👗 Got runway-ready for their big moment
📸 Posed for memorable photos
🚶♀️ Hit the runway with community leaders and special guests who danced, laughed, and gave it their all
👏 Were cheered on by family, friends, volunteers, and supporters
🍽️ Enjoyed food, desserts, refreshments, and fellowship
🎁 Received gift bags and door prizes, then signed autographs and met community members after the show
❤️ Shared plenty of smiles, laughter, and unforgettable memories
🖼️ Video & Photo Gallery
📸 2026 Photo Gallery / Slideshow
Coming soon! Please check back to enjoy photos and special moments from this year’s celebration.
🎥 Event Video / Highlight Reel
Coming soon! Visit us again to watch highlights from the runway and behind-the-scenes moments.
📱 Social Media Reels & Posts
Coming soon! Check back for reels, posts, and additional memories shared from the event.
🌟 2026 Runway Escorts
Our runway escorts could have been in a million other places, but they chose to spend this special afternoon with our models and they gave it their all!
They walked, danced, laughed, cheered, and matched the incredible energy of our models every step of the way. The connection between our escorts and models was truly magnetic and helped make the runway one of the most joyful moments of the day.
A heartfelt thank-you to:
Judge Raul Rodriguez
Constable Silvia Treviño
Constable Jerry Garcia
Casey Curry
Frank Gonzalez, representing Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia
Council Member Joaquin Martinez
❤️ Thank you for showing up with your time, your heart, and your energy and for helping every model feel celebrated in the spotlight.
🤝 2026 Sponsors & Community Partners
Navidad’s Next Top Model is made possible by the businesses, organizations, professionals, volunteers, and individuals who generously share their time, talents, products, services, and financial support.
Long before our models step onto the runway, many caring hands are working behind the scenes to make the celebration special.
🙏 Thank you for believing in our models and helping transform their day into an extraordinary experience.
A special thank-you to our:
💇♀️ Hairstylists
💄 Makeup artists
📸 Photographers
👗 Clothing and accessory donors
🚶♀️🚶♂️ Runway escorts
🍽️ Food and beverage donors
🍰 Dessert donors
🎁 Door-prize donors
🙌 Event volunteers
🤝 Sponsors and community partners
🙏 A Heartfelt Thank You
To our models and their families: thank you for allowing us to celebrate with you.
To our hairstylists, makeup artists, photographers, escorts, volunteers, vendors, sponsors, community leaders, donors, and friends: thank you for showing what can happen when a community comes together for others.
And to everyone who cheered from the sidelines and helped our models feel like stars—thank you.
Navidad’s Next Top Model is truly:
Created by the community.
Driven by the community.
Serving the community.
Together, we created an afternoon filled with confidence, connection, laughter, and memories that will continue long after the runway lights are gone.
💝 Help Make the Next Celebration Possible
Navidad’s Next Top Model depends on volunteers, donors, professionals, businesses, and community partners who are willing to share their talents and resources.
There are many ways to help:
🙌 Volunteer at the event
💇♀️ Volunteer as a hairstylist
💄 Volunteer as a makeup artist
📸 Donate professional photography services
🚶♀️🚶♂️ Serve as a runway escort
👗 Donate clothing, shoes, or accessories
🍽️ Sponsor or donate food and beverages
🍰 Donate desserts or treats
🎁 Donate door prizes or participant gifts
🤝 Become a community partner
💝 Make a financial donation
Whether you contribute your time, talent, products, services, or financial support, you become part of creating a special experience for our models.
👉 Donate