Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
"Clothes maketh man, naked people have little or no effect on society" Cleverly stated by Mark Twain, the importance of clothes and by default a sense of fashion has for too long been understated. From bell bottoms, to boot-cuts, to pencils and maybe back? Fashion is ever changing, always evolving in this rapidly stylistic world. Keeping up with it may not be a walk in the park but more like a guy finishing last in a road race.
Some may argue that what’s in style depends on what the celebrities wear, while others may opine that fashion is following your personal sense of style While this may be true, there are a few who may showcase their own true style.
Guyana has been making its mark in the Fashion Industry over the past few years. Guyanese designers have awed many audiences with their unique and fabulous sense of designs and concepts. The most popular names in Guyanese and Caribbean fashion are Sonia Noel and Michelle Cole, while others like Olympia Small and Roger Gary have also caused a few ripples of their own.
Two of these designers, Michelle Cole and Sonia Noel have made an indelible mark on fashion in Guyana and are mothers to two of the most anticipated fashion events in Guyana. Michelle has offered to us an innovative and sassy venture called FACTS which seeks to showcase and reward the talent and creativity of young designers, which has completed three cycles to date. Sonia meanwhile has brought to Guyana, undoubtedly our biggest fashion event, Guyana Fashion Weekend.
Marisca Fiedtkou, daughter of Sonia Noel, who is no stranger to the fashion industry herself, is keen to follow her mother's progressive footsteps and carve a name for herself in the fashion book of fame.
Talk Style Fashion Club is the brain child of Marisca. This project was started as an interactive club geared for the young and hip. With monthly meetings, it allows young ladies to get together and share their views and discover their personal style
Being a member of this club offers a variety of benefits; with membership you get 10% discount on anything you purchase from the Talk Style Fashion Club section at “Silhouettes”, which is located at 176 Barr Street, Kitty, Georgetown. Members also have access to personalized shopping, updates on the latest looks and trends so that you will always be in fashion, no matter which direction your sense of may lead. It also allows, facilitates and encourages making new friends through networking, image and self esteem building and much more.
Wondering how you may join the Talk Style Fashion Club? At the meetings, registration forms are distributed. Membership costs GY$1000 per month, which is only GY$10,000 per year.
The Club has held one meeting for the year to date, which focused extensively on personal style. Fashion magazines were distributed and members were educated about celebrity styles and the roles they play in society. Session two, is dated for Saturday 27th February 2009 at 13:00hrs. The venue would be 1068 Aubrey Barker and Gaulding, South Ruimvelt. Session two focuses on “make up” tips and Easter attire. Further interaction and networking continue while persons from the first meeting are allowed to bring a friend along.
In the near future, Talk Style Fashion Club will be making it way to the television arena, with a show hosted by Marisca Fiedtkou.
Interest Persons can make contact with the club, by emailing to talk.styletv@gmail.com or by checking the Facebook Group “Talk Style Fashion Club”. Updates and News from the club
The Icelandic Fashion Week commenced yesterday and will conclude on Sunday and for the first time a Guyanese is included.
Yes, one time Miss Guyana World Alexis Glasgow a Berbician by birth will be that person.
Exclusively Alexis Glasgow told Entertainer “I’m the first Guyanese to be a part of this prestigious event.” Selected from a lineup of 69 models she will be modeling for a few Icelandic and International designers. “I was selected to be a part of the Catalin Botezatu presentation at the Lexus fashion show in Iceland,” the mother of one said and noted that it’s something she’s always dreamt about doing for a long time.
She’s also let up that there is also a “Face of the Icelandic Fashion week” and she stands a good chance as she’s the only black woman in this show and she vows to make a good statement.
Meanwhile the lady who was swept off her feet by an Icelandic pilot and got married speaking of life as a mother said Motherhood is great but demanding.
“My son is growing up so fast that I feel as though I´m going to be a mother in law soon. She said Sverrir, her son is doing well in play school and that he loves to sing and keep everybody entertained while her husband Thor is flying all over the world as usual.
The couple will be celebrating their fourth wedding anniversary on September 15 and, “we are still going strong.”
If all goes well she says she and her family might be coming to Guyana for Christmas. “Winning the Miss Guyana crown was a fantastic experience and a good foundation for the things I'm doing now,” she said.
Fifteen super-sizzling ladies battled for supremacy and many unleashed their 'pageant fire'. But in the end, it was the pretty, sophisticated and provocative Jenelle Cox who blazed a scorching trail to whisk away the crown and title from 14 other contestants.
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In the first runner-up spot was Rachael Bakker, followed by Lecrisha Rambalack, Janella Lewis and Nandani Seecharan who occupied the second, third and fourth runner-up spots respectively. Rambalack also won the Miss Photogenic and the People's Choice awards, while Lewis and Cianna Persaud copped the Miss Body Beautiful and Miss Congeniality prizes, respectively.
Miss Universe 2009, which will be aired live from the Atlantis, Paradise Island resort in The Bahamas on August 23, is a joint venture between the Trump Organization and NBC Universal.
The local queen will head to the Bahamas in August to compete with 91 other women from around the world.
The new queen will receive some $2.5M in prizes, inclusive of a 21 days stay at the world famous Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, and two round-trip tickets to Jamaica for one week, with hotel accommodation.
Sonia Noel will name Guyana’s Next Top Model in exactly one week and while it is still too early to pick a front-runner the competition it shaping up to be as jaw-dropping as last year.
Richard Young, the creative force behind Sonia Noel’s Glamorous, is impressed with the bunch he has groomed this year and he has seen some potential “drama” in a few of the hopefuls.
The hotly-contested photo shoot for the model search wrapped up at Splashmin’s several days ago and is to be aired shortly. Richard said the shoot this year was interesting because it was pushed up to an earlier time allowing for a fresh daybreak setting. “The models were up before sunrise and the cameras were ready to roll within a few minutes, it really was something special to watch,” he said. Richard said the models this year seemed to have grasped the concept of the “complete runway package” better than the previous year, adding that they understood the importance of not simply walking on the runway and believing that “this was all”. Designers and stylists had to incorporate environmental awareness and HIV/AIDS and domestic violence into their work. He said that the focus was not solely on designing but also demonstrating a responsibility to raise awareness on pertinent issues. With respect to the stylists, he said, they were drafted in because the role of stylists had been underplayed in the past. He explained that the stylists are make-up those persons who understand how to use clothes to reach an audience. “While the designer creates the outfit the stylist is the one who sells it, and I was impressed with how the stylists in this competition understood the roles they play,” Richard added. He said what Sonia Noel is doing by putting on the show every year is rearing a new crop of models to enter an industry that he acknowledged is difficult to survive in here. But, he noted the competition instills in models the notion of creating a niche in the field. According to him, the avenue is there for models to think “outside of the catwalk” and branch out to marketing products. He said this was the same message that was shared with the designers. Richard said designing for the catwalk is important, but it is also practical to think of designing for companies even if it is producing a batch of jumpsuits. Richard said the final, which is to be held on July 12 at Princess Buddy’s Hotel, is shaping up to be quite an event. Since the model search and the designer and stylist competitions have been merged for the final show Richard said the public will have “quite a fill”. He also mentioned that auditions for Guyana Fashion Weekend noted are slated for July 5 and 6 at the Hotel Tower. The auditions begin at 2 pm each day.
That's rite ya'll, The Guyana Fashion Weekend Committee has started hosting auditions has of Today at 14:00hrs at the Tower Hotel to select the 'cream of the crop' for the year's event.
Pop it for more....While they are particularly looking for tall and stunning models this year around, there will be a particular call for models of 'mixed race and origin' too.
Auditions will also continue on Sunday from 14:00hrs and will end at 18:00hrs set by the officials in order to maintain a strict schedule.
male models are asked to walk with runway shoes while the females are required to be attired in heels to better enable them to storm the runway before a panel of judges.
Models are also required to walk with two full size photos for viewing by the panel. Models are reminded that last years even offered a world of opportunities for participants and reigning Miss Guyana Universe, Ms Meeesa Payne as a result became an official Pulse model and participated in the Trinidad Fashion event.
Meanwhile designers who are aduitioning are required to walk with their sketches or portfolios abd of course two of their completed designs.
