saltar a las revistas

Question

I'm reading an article about "Panama" hats actually originating in Ecuador. In this article are the following 3 sentences:

1) Cuando el sombrero salta a las revistas de moda de todo el mundo, durante la construcción del Canal de Panamá a principios del sigloXX, se transforma en uno de los principales productos de exportación del Ecuador.

2) Pero al ser usados por famosos, saltaron a las revistas de moda y se volvieron una opción elegante y distinguida en el verano.

3) Estos sombreros saltaron a la fama durante ....

Any ideas about best translations? Could saltar a las revistas in the first two sentences just mean "appeared in magazines"? Or is the idea more emphatic, like they were "splashed on the covers of magazines"? The 3rd sentence seems like it might equate to someting like "leap to fame." Yes?

Answer 1

I think you're on the right track indeed. "Revista de moda" means "fashion magazine" so maybe something more emphatic like "exploded in the fashion magazines" or "were splashed all over the fashion magazines..."

In #1, I would have used the preterite or imperfect of saltar.

In #3, "saltaron" is the preterite, so "leapt to fame" or something like that would make sense to me.

Answer 2

Belatedly, I found an example in SpanDict which sheds light on my question. Under the definition of "saltar" is this example:

El asunto ha saltado a la prensa ---The affair has reached the newspapers.

So "salta a las revistas" must mean "reaches (or makes it to) the magazines."