Beatriz Blanco, Fallera Mayor of Valencia 2027, will wear a dress made by the Guild of Tailors and Dressmakers. But rather than a private workshop, it will be the students of the guild's own training school who take on one of the most demanding challenges of their apprenticeship. With this initiative, the guild revives a tradition from past terms in which the top representative of the festival accepted the gift.

The project is led by Enrique Pertusa. Students from the guild courses will be responsible for fitting all the elements of the dress — fabrics, manteletas and the rest of the pieces — contributed by different specialised suppliers. In other words, the guild provides the hands and the training; the indumentaria industry, the materials.

"This initiative brings together tradition, training and Valencian craftsmanship, and will allow our students to take part in a project as special as it is demanding, putting into practice everything they have learned in our classrooms," the Guild said. In the same vein, the organisation stressed the pride that "the talent being trained every day in our School can be present in such a representative figure of our festivities and our culture as the highest representative of the fallas community."

There is a detail that connects this dress with the one made three terms ago. Vicente Santo Tomas, Beatriz Blanco's regular indumentarista, took part in creating the dress made for Maria Estela Arlandis in 2024. Blanco thus repeats with a trusted name, although this time the sewing work will come from the guild's classrooms.

The announcement comes as the countdown to Blanco's reign continues. She was proclaimed last October alongside the Fallera Mayor Infantil, Julia Vizcayno. Since then, the commission Rosario-Plaza Calabuig and her court have been closing protocol appointments: choosing mantillas at Alan Indumentaria, official photo sessions, and the first representative events of the 2027 term.

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