Nassau, Bahamas -
With less than two months away until the biggest runway show to hit the
Bahamian shores, Mode Iles Ltd, producers of the award-winning Islands of the
World Fashion Week (IWFW), have created a designer competition for novice
designers based in the Bahamas. The competition; “Runway to Fashion Week”,
loosely based on America’s “Project Runway”, was created to involved local,
novice designers and gradually expose their talent to a larger market. The
event will take place on October 3rd beginning at 5pm at Mario's Bowling and
Entertainment Palace.
The two part event will feature 6 talented designers ,
showcasing 3-5 of their designs before a panel of local fashion icons, who will
score and critique their work. In the second segment, the designers will each
present a newly created “cultural-fashion” design, encompassing indigenous
elements. At the end of the intense competition, the winner will receive fabric
courtesy of Bahama Handprints for the opportunity to showcase a line of 5-10
garments on the “Islands of the World Fashion Week” runway and the chance of a
lifetime to attend one of the world’s most prestigious school’s of fashion
design, by way of the “Harl Taylor Fashion Scholarship”.
The judging panel will include Pamela Burnside- highly
qualified Bahamian fashion designer and co-owner/operator of Doongalik Studios;
Percy Wallace- Award winning local designer with more than two-decades of
experience, more notably in the pageantry realm; and Tyrina Neely- the youngest
of the panel with an active fashion background being an entrepreneur, stylist,
columnist and popular fashionista.
Joining them, as the event's host will be Island 102.9 FM's
Danielle Anusiem. She is a young woman that is not afraid to say what's on her
mind. And if you tune 102.9 FM weekdays, 6-10am, you will certainly get to hear
it. She is the co-host of Island FM's popular show, “The Morning Boil”,
alongside Eddie Carter. Anusiem is also the station's morning news anchor.
Operations Manager for Mode Iles Ltd, Kedar Clarke says,
“The Runway to Fashion Week should be an exciting time because the talent is
insurmountable among Bahamian designers and so it will be very interesting to
see what designs they come up with and who will make the top spot. Over the
years, there continues to be a void within the Bahamian fashion community for
exposing talents to an international market, this event acts as that
preliminary platform for such exposure.”
“Runway to Fashion Week” event is also one of the events
under the CariFringe festival calendar that is scheduled for October 1-11.
CariFringe is an annual ten day regional arts and culture festival that has
been designed to feature a cross-section of Bahamian and Caribbean arts.Visit
the website: www.islandsfashionweek.com
