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GUYANA FASHION WEEK NEW YORK LAUNCH

Thursday, 12 August 2010

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It was an intimate setting. A private cocktail reception at the RFA
Gallery in Harlem set the tone for the New York launch of Guyana
Fashion Weekend. Designer Sonia Noel was the gracious host for the
reception where media, business people and fashionestas got a chance
to be up close and personal with Ms. Noel discussing Guyana Fashion
Weekend, posing for photo ops and sipping cocktails amidst the
fabulous art in this upscale gallery. Gallery Director and curator
Ms.Paula Coleman was on hand for the exclusive reception.
While the meet and greet grew well into the night, guests were in awe
of the footage of Guyana Fashion Weekend 2009 that played on the large
screen television in the gallery.

To agument all this, was a
presentation of GFW designers where four models including Jamain
Victor 2009 Guyana Model Search winner posed mannequin styled on
pedestals strategically placed in the gallery. Creations from: Marcia
DeSantos, Michael De Abru, Nikisha Johns, Christopher Goodridge,
Blacque, Sonia Noel, Carol Frazer, Michael Kellman and Petra Rodney
were modeled in this unique display where models stood frozen, only
moving to change their garments. The other models were: Athina James
`Miss Antigua Barbuda World/Universe 2008', legendary Trinidad model
Cleo Patten and Barbados’ Allison King who modeled in the first Guyana
Fashion Weekend in Guyana.

Guyana’s Designer Portfolio winner Nikisha Johns and runner-up Michael
DeAbru were on hand, facilitated several media interviews and
photo-ops, as well as Paul Burnett who also showed his line `Blacque’
and styled the presentation. Among Ms Noel’s guests were New York
based Guyanese fashion designers Rani Doobay and Mario Ramo of Mario
Ramo Couture, Kevin Mays stylist on the Tyra Banks Show, Trinidad
designer Donna Dove who showed at GFW in 2007 and 2008, Jamaican
designer Michael Jerome Francis and artist Christopher Trujillo, EDGE
Dance Company Director Errol Grimes, Helen Shelton, Senior V.P. Ruder
Finn - Seagram’s Liquors, (who provided the wine) New York based
actresses, Guyanese: Ingrid Griffith and Jamaican: Thaiys Walsh, model
Lene Hall, GFW US Laison Walter Greene, GFW photographer Donn
Thompson, Charles and Claire Monah, Colin Clarke, Dawn Stewart cCEO of
CPIC and journalist/radio personality Brenda Richards

The event was carried on Urban Fashion Network and covered by
runwaynews.com, Zagat Survey, Profiles98 Magazine, N.Y.Carib News and
The Blay Fashion Report.

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