His creations are strictly Couture and are considered collectible art inspired by anything from movies to fairy tales and especially by the best women’s wear couturiers of Europe. His masterpieces are born from an almost maniacal obsession to achieve perfection stemming from hours of sketching to innovating shapes and forms which are then meticulously executed and finished only when Mr. Rubio is completely satisfied with the final product.

Mr Rubio is on the boards of several fundraising organizations and most recently was honored and awarded quite unexpectedly by The Humane Society for his humanitarian efforts in championing animal adoption. Anthony participates where welcomed to facilitate raising funds and awareness to the plight of animals that have no voices to express their needs or pains to make the world a deserving place for their unconditional love. Mr. Rubio is very dedicated along with his personal muses, twin one year old Chihuahuas Bogie the brunette named after Humphrey Bogart and Kimba the blonde named after a famous anime hero, to help abandoned, lost and abused pets when and how ever they can.

As an advocate for pet adoption. Rubio created “Adopt Me Maybe?” adopt a shelter pet campaign. He started this campaign in an effort to promote shelter pet adoption verses buying a pet in a store. The “Adopt Me Maybe” pet adoption campaign went viral. Bogie and Kimba were the poster boys for the campaign.

Anthony Rubio became the first pet fashion designer to showcase at New York’s Fashion Week in February of 2012. Mr. Rubio has been commissioned by Pepsi Cola Company, Macy’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, General Motors, EMI Records among many others.

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Internationally acclaimed Pet Couturier, Anthony Rubio’s one of a kind creations have been featured on Good Morning America, TMZ, Perez Hilton, The Today Show, CBS morning show Live From The Couch, Fox’s New Day New York, news broadcast on CBS (3 times), Fox, NBC (twice), CNN (twice), ABC, USA Today, Sports Illustrated (twice), Anderson Cooper’s talk show Anderson, Cable Vision’s Pet Talk, Animal Planet, LX New York on NBC, NY 1 News, WPIX’s Morning Show, Multiple segments of Pet Fashion on Canada’s Pet Network, Multiple stories on Chance TV, VH1’s Best Week Ever and his creation of Donald Trump with signature comb over on his muse Bandit went viral and landed in an International TV commercial for Comedy Central.

In July 2012 eight of Anthony Rubio’s Couture creations were featured in and were part of the World Record breaking $250,000. dog wedding appearing in the New York Daily News, television’s “The Insider”, Entertainment Tonight, On The Record with Greta Van Susteren, Teddy Hilton, VH1’s Best Week Ever just to name a few of mass media coverage.

Represented Macy’s in the 12th Annual Macy’s Petacular in 2009 and 14th Annual Macy’s Petacular in 2011.

Magazine and Newspaper covered include a 3 page spread in The Daily Mail UK in 2011, also in New York Times, Newsweek, American Dog Magazine, Animal Fair magazine, Time Out New York, New York Daily News, NY Post and every other major paper in the U.S. and Canada. Cover stories in The Sunday Times, South Africa’s largest newspaper and in Southern Weekly, China’s largest newspaper with circulation at 1.6 million copies. Also seen in international papers in India, Japan, Ghana, Great Britain among many others making him an international sensation. Article in The Latino Show Magazine.

Pet Custom designer for Broadway play “Dog Park” in 2012.

Created the pet adoption campaign “Adopt Me Maybe” which went viral. Top 5 Trending on Twitter. Tweeted by Katy Perry to 22 million followers. Individual stories by USA Today, Huffington Post , Yahoo News, Dogster, NBC’s Today.com, Cover story on BuzzFeed. Entertainment Weekly named it one of the Top 10 Best “Call Me Maybe” parodies.

Lead designer in the hit book “Couture Dogs of New York” with the majority designs throughout the book including and front and back covers.