Guyana Fashion Week will be back next year as a part of Guyana’s 50th Independence celebrations in May, 2016.
Guyana Fashion Week is the second longest running fashion event of its kind in the Region and has served to launch many a creative, over the years. Makeup artists, stylists, set decorators, models, fashion designers, sculptors, visual artists, performing artistes, hair designers, graphic artists and culinary artists have all found a home in the fashion week experience.
Many of these non-traditional occupations bore fruit in the fashion week nursery, as it were, during the last six installments of the event, during the years 2007-2013.
“I am elated to GFW is part of our 50th Independence anniversary and that we are working steadfastly to ensure that this will be memorable” CEO Sonia Noel.
Specialised areas like lighting design, stage management, wardrobe coordination, creative music coordination, stage design, Information technology and new media services and costuming have all been incorporated into the fashion week roll-out.
It is evident that Guyana Fashion Week has proven itself to be indispensable to any cultural policy development seeking to invest in the burgeoning creative industry, not only locally, but with regional implications. Set for May 2016, be on the lookout for incremental incentives leading up to the big re-launch of the grand event.
Last week, creative Director of GFW, Caribbean Fashion Guru Richard Young, was on the Guyana Today Show and held talks with CEO and Founder of GFW, our very own fashion icon Sonia Noel.
Young stated that “GFW is always searching for young, creative people who are willing to seize the opportunity to chart their professional pathway, utilising the creative arts”. An invitation to participate in the event, at multiple levels, would be posted soon or one can check out the facebook page for further updates.
The face of GFW is an element that garners quite a following, so keep abreast of the developments of GFW 2016. Sonia Noel announced that “GFW is looking for that face to brand the event, cognisant of its new dispensation. I am so excited about this new turn of events.” Details of the search would be publicised, in the near future to discover this new face of GFW.