Miami — November 21, 2024. On her first official visit as the newly crowned Miss Universe, Victoria Kjær stood inside the Gary Nader Art Centre and received the Keys to Miami from Mayor Daniella Levine Cava — surrounded by Miami-Dade commissioners, Miss Universe president Raul Rocha, and the legendary Emilio Estefan Jr.
For a moment like that — a queen receiving the keys to a city built by exiles — there was only one dress.
The Celia Cruz Tribute, by Yas Gonzalez
Designed by hand in the House of Yas atelier in Miami, the Celia Cruz Tribute dress is a wearable portrait of La Guarachera de Cuba — her face rendered in bursts of red, gold, and electric color across the fabric, the way her voice once burst across two shores. Celia Cruz left Cuba and was never allowed to return; Miami became her stage, her refuge, and her kingdom. She is, to this day, the city's eternal queen.
That is why this dress was not a fashion choice. It was the correct one. To receive the Keys to Miami is to be welcomed by a city whose heart is Cuban, whose soundtrack is Celia's, and whose story is one of arrival and becoming. Victoria Kjær — a global ambassador for empowerment and inclusion — accepted Miami's highest welcome wearing Miami's greatest story on her body: azúcar, legado y couture.
A House, A History
The dress belongs to Forever Celia, the House of Yas capsule honoring Cruz's fire, color, defiance, and joy. Each piece is made by hand, one client at a time, in our Miami atelier — because tributes should never be mass-produced. That night at the Gary Nader Art Centre, as plans were announced to bring Miss Universe 2026 to Miami, the dress did what House of Yas garments are made to do: it carried memory into the room and let it speak.
Forever Celia is custom made only — by private appointment at the atelier.
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