Since Rebecca Stirm's big appearances in the local and international fashion worlds, 2013 has become the year of opportunity for models and designers to be recognized. And today, another opportunity presented itself to the local models.
It involves 2 professionals from fashion entities based in Jamaica are in Belize to discover local talent and to give them an opportunity. They are Kingley Cooper, the Chairman and CEO of Pulse Model Agency, and Romae Gordon, the Fashion Director for Caribbean Fashion Week.
Today, they got a chance to meet the Belizean models, and we got a chance to speak to them about their plans should they decide that a local model fits into what they're looking for.
Here's what Gordon told us
Romae Gordon - Fashion Director
"Well we are interested in the development of the industry here in Belize obviously we know that talent abound everywhere, just walking about since I have been here in Belize we've seen lots of great faces, beautiful women and so we are hoping that we could discover some of that talent here in Belize and also on the designs side. We do Caribbean fashion week which takes place during June 6th - 10th in Kingston Jamaica this year and we are hoping also that we could find some talent who potentially could walk the runway of CFW or present collections at CFW from Belize"
Daniel Ortiz
"What's the plan of action to discover these women?"
Romae Gordon
"Well this is the start obviously, meeting people and seeing what their potential is and looking at portfolio for designers, models themselves, looking at their skill set to see if they are actually ready or need to do more developmental work to get them ready, perhaps for another Caribbean Fashion week. We start small, first meet and greet, discover what's behind the personalities, in terms of the models. We are looking for people with the right characteristics to be international models and so you start off with height, girls five nine, and taller, between five nine and six feet tall. Gentlemen as well between six and six two, and obviously slim build, great proportion in terms of the body and we are looking also for that X factor, that something speical, not just somebody who you know who has the right height, has the right body type but has a certain look that we think might be excitable to the market because eventhough it is about your physical being and so on it also has to translate into business when you get to the international stage. So we are looking for someone with that specialness' that can appeal to the international market"
This talent discovery is part of the program called Fashion Forward, the first of its kind in Belize.
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