  We discuss aspects of a promising top-down origin of flavor symmetries in
particle physics. Modular transformations originating from string theory
dualities are shown to play a crucial role. We introduce the notion of an
"eclectic" flavor scheme that unifies traditional flavor symmetries, modular
symmetries and CP-transformations. It exhibits the phenomenon of "Local Flavor
Unification" with enhanced flavor symmetries at fixed points or lines in moduli
space. Successful fits of masses and mixing angles of quarks and leptons are
found in the vicinity of these points and lines.
