The Guyana Fashion Week 2013 kicks off come this Sunday at the Water Chris Hotel for the auditions for both designers and models.
In its sixth instalment, CEO of the biennial event, Sonia Noel, promises a week packed with activities and events surrounding the birth and growth of our nation’s fashion industry, mixed with all the elements of the creative arts.
GFW 6, is set to be launched on August 4, in grand style, giving a glimpse of what to expect. The proceedings this year will take a very different shape from previous years. Guyana Fashion Week is set for October 20-27.
This year promises an event like no other, bringing together six races to pronounce one people, six days of fashion activity to celebrate one fashion week, six senses, including the mind, to chart one vision, six types of arts to claim one creative industry, six nationalities would be present, to identify our collective brand, and this our sixth event would continue to forge our unique destiny.
GFW pays tribute to water’s sustainable properties, in declaring that water is essential to our very existence. There is no life without water so GFW 2013 hopes to bring life to fashion and as a result bring fashion to life.
The five-year history made an indelible impression on the promotion of the Caribbean aesthetic as a viable global style alternative. Five years marked the end of phase one of the plan to develop a Guyanese fashion industry.
It goes without saying that part and parcel of this movement is identity branding which includes mobilising all aspects of the arts to corral the components of a true creative industry. This is the stuff of which sustainable development is made – the reliance on economic diversification strategies to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. All of which ensure youth empowerment and nation-building action.
“There is so much raw and untapped talent in the creative industries in Guyana. It is our intention to harness, expose and develop this talent, as well as to promote consistently regional networking opportunities,” Sonia Noel said. All interested designers are asked to come down to the Water Chris Hotel this Saturday, June 22, between 14:00h and 15:00h with at least five sketches to audition. And models, all shapes and sizes, male and female, between 15:00h and 17:00h.
Male models are asked to walk with a pair of shoes, and fitted jeans or pants, and female models are asked to walk with a pair of heeled shoes, no less than four inches high, leggings and mid-riff tops.
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