‘Fashion in the hood’ impresses…

Sep 25, 2008 News

Albouystown gets a taste of the high life

Designer Sonia Noel and the Guyana Fashion Weekend committee ‘made the mark’ on Saturday when they launched their ‘Fashion in the Hood’ mini show and motorcade in Albouystown.

Guyana Fashion Weekend is slated for three days from October 3 and is billed for the GCC Ground, Bourda.
The very smashing spectacle took residents of Albouystown by surprise since many indicated that no one had used their initiative before to ‘bring fashion to the ghetto’.

Word spread quickly and residents poured out from many streets and locations in Albouystown to view the parade of models from the Fashion Weekend cast decked out in some of the most exotic designs that would be featured at the weekend event next month.

While models were even perched on the bonnets of cars, the Master of Ceremonies, Michael Younge offered a preview while perched on the hood of a slow moving truck.

Amidst cheers from a rapidly increasing crowd, the models converged on a basketball court in Independence Boulevard and Hunter Streets, Albouystown and executed swift dazzling displays of some of the more catchy pieces to be featured at the Guyana Fashion Weekend next month.

One of the GFW organizers, Richard Young, of Trinidad, told Kaieteur News that the street fashion show was geared to the neighbourhood and for the everyday people who may not have the opportunity to see a fashion show in a formal setting.

Young said the show was a fusion of energy, glamour and high class fashion that sought to educate ghetto dwellers about the importance and impact of fashion even as it erased the myths about male fashion modeling, especially in an area like Albouystown.

He said that the residents responded positively and the majority applauded and supported the venture.
Models interacted with the gathering before and after the show.

Also, on Sunday evening the GFW models set the Kingston Seawall ablaze with another fashion display for the crowds that gather there.