Walking on Sunshine for Isika staging today
— International guests to grace event
GLAMOROUS is back after a two-year hiatus, and Isika, at Parika, West Bank Demerara (a left turn before Parika Stelling) is the venue for this year’s spectacular return.
Themed “Walking on Sunshine”, the event is being staged today at 6.30 pm (18:30 hrs). Guyana Model Search and Designers Portfolio (GMSDP) began in 2008 as a spinoff of the Guyana Fashion Weekend (GFW) 2007. It was a natural segue of what was to become an increasingly popular and widely appealing feature on the annual calendar of national events. On the heels of the first Fashion weekend, the first GMSDP finals proved to be very successful, and patrons left the Pegasus seeing “GLAMOROUS” as the preferred showcase of Guyana’s emerging designing talent.
That year, the winners — models Shanelly Kendall, Michael Younge and designer Andrew Harris — went on to become proactive, enterprising individuals with a penchant for excellence. The following year, models Yolanda Kerr, Jamain Victor and designer Ronella Wosely shot to prominence with an international appeal to their look. Models Alana Phoenix, Steven Baggot and designer Natasha John proved that versatility makes for a powerful end product.
Glamorous 2008-2010 were great climaxes to the television reality show run.
A statement from the GMSDP said that, in today’s competitive world, the creative arts have become instrumental in forwarding sustainable development initiatives that are essential to fuelling Caribbean economies.
Noting that through event-making these creative energies have been mobilised to ensure empowerment of the youth, creation of job opportunities, and harnessing and effective utilisation of diverse talents, the statement went on to say that fashion engages many of these said talents, and has served realistically to validate a reliance on the growth of a creative industry for regional development.
This year’s event will feature international guests Steven Cutting and Anna Maria Horsford.

Steven Cutting
Steven Cutting was born and raised in New York. He has been in the fashion industry for over twenty years. He attended New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), during which time he won the “Harvey’s Bristol Crème” award for “Most Promising Designer”.
When he left FIT, Cutting went to Europe working for fashion firms Krizia, Enrica Masei, Anna Scipioni, Edith Sonani and Chiwitt. Upon returning to New York, he became Design Director for Phillipe Monet.
He started his own company, design consulting firm ‘Steven Cutting Inc.,’ in 1990, and consulted for clients such as Kenneth Cole, Collezione, Reebok, Pony and Collage. In the mid-nineties, he became the director of Perry Ellis America, and designed the men’s active wear and sportswear collections. His styles have been features on celebrities such as Boris Kudjoe, Dre Dre, LL Cool J and Eminem.
Cutting is presently consulting for Steven Cutting Inc., and is a Professor of Fashion Design at FIT and Kingsborough College. His entrepreneurship led to an association with Tannery Direct, a major sourcing agency for leathers and suedes. His clientele includes Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klien, Andrew Marc and Guess.

Anna Maria Horsford
Anna Maria Horsford was born and raised in Harlem, New York to parents from Antigua and Barbuda. A spokesperson for GFW in 2009, she has appeared in a string of movies and series that include the well-known Friday (1995), Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000), Friday after Next (2002), Minority Report (2002) and many more. She has had roles in many television series, including Moesha (2000), The Wayans Bros (1995-1999), The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (1992) Gray’s Anatomy (2005-2007), Judging Amy (1999) and many more.