Reflections Fashion Show a designers showcase will be held on Sunday, November 11, 2012 at the Theater Guild, Georgetown, Guyana.
Nelsion Nurse, Most Promising Designer for Guyana Fashion Weekend 2010, is presenting his first Major collection called Mystic Fury presented at the designers showcase named Reflections on Sunday. Supporting designers on the line up are Designer Portfolio 2012 winners: Andy Cummings, Shemeza Subrattie and Mwanza Glen. Other guest designers are Wynetta Jones and Natasha David who presented memorable collections at Guyana Fashion Weekend 2010. The former, her specialty being work with textile art on fabric, and the latter working with organic substances.
Nelsion Nurse didn’t sit on his laurels since his début winning collection ‘Patches’ back in 2010 at Guyana Fashion Weekend 4. He has been consistently active, working in various facets of the creative industry since that hallmark introduction. He has been doing Costume Art for Children and Adult bands, Set Designs for Public and Private sector entities and has worked closely as the Production Assistant for Caribbean Fashion Guru and Expert, Richard Young, for Guyana Fashion Weekend and Guyana Model Search and Designers Portfolio. He has also won various Best Gown Awards at Pageantry, including Miss Guyana Talented Teen and Ms. Amerindian Heritage. With children, he works with different schooling groups to teach movement and craft. There is no telling where his creative energies can be channeled.
Now he feels very grounded to present his first major collection, Mystic Fury, which is a dialogue with his spirit, telling his own journey through fabric selection, style, and silhouette. He crafts designs that speak volumes about his own metamorphosis or becoming. His mother, Joan Woolford has been a great influence, a person whom he uses to bounce off many of his ideas and plans; not necessarily for sanction, but for motivation. He is a sharing soul and that is why this endeavor could not have been possible without the other designers and also the help of some special believers like Fashion Extraordinaire Sonia Noel, past Designer Portfolio winner John Quelch, Kofi Branch of Kobra Management Caribbean, Sade Richardson, Carles Griffith, Jermaine Broomes, Wayne Barrow, Sanjay Puran, Gillian James of Willows Bridal Boutique, and Lennox Cush of Star Party Rentals.
Nelsion has also inspired and paved the way for young creative energy, mentoring fashion and set designers, and always finding a way for them to exercise their passion.
Its no accident that he chose the month of November, being Tourism Awareness Month. He has seen where Fashion and Tourism go hand in hand in for identity branding and destination marketing. His beliefs were reinforced by his participation in the Guyana Fashion Weekend 2010 . There is also a very relevant connection between designing art and performing art, they co-exist to produce ‘style’.
This is where the Theatre Guild, where Nelsion is also a member, becomes paramount for facilitating his vision. Dr. Paloma Mohammed must be given kudos for her continuous support in all his endeavours. Joining the models on stage, will be Jackie Hanover, Y3K and Keon Heywood, along with dances choreographed by Allison Glassgow. Some of the more prominent models would be present and past winners of the Guyana Model Search, like Carles Griffith, Natalya Thomas, Yohlanda Kerr, Latoya Whitehead, and Tyrone Hamid, topped off by Guyana’s Lead Models, Meleesa Payne and Royan Abrams.