  We present a complete analysis of the fermion masses and mixing matrices in
the framework of the little flavon model. In this model textures are generated
by coupling the fermions to scalar fields, the little flavons, that are
pseudo-Goldstone bosons of the breaking of a global SU(6) symmetry. The Yukawa
couplings arise from the vacuum expectation values of the flavon fields, their
sizes controlled by a potential a la Coleman-Weinberg. Quark and lepton mass
hierarchies and mixing angles are accomodated within the effective approach in
a natural manner.
