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This much-anticipated event will also showcase supporting designers and Designer Portfolio 2012 winners Andy Cummings, Shemeza Subrattie, and the very talented Mwanza Glen.
Guest designers will include Wynetta Jones and Natasha David, who presented memorable collections at Guyana Fashion Weekend 2010. While Jones will be depicting work with textile art on fabric, David will display creations on organic substances.
New and budding designer, Esau Mayers will be introduced at this event.
Nurse will also be showcasing the work of his mentor, Sonia Noel, Guyana’s Fashion icon, and one of the Caribbean’s leading designers.
How he arrived on the fashion scene…
Nelsion Nurse didn’t sit on his laurels since his début-winning collection, ‘Patches’, back in 2010 at Guyana Fashion Weekend 4. He has consistently been active, working in various facets of the creative industry since that hallmark introduction.
He has been doing costume art for children and adult bands; set designs for public and private sector entities; and has worked closely as the production assistant for Caribbean fashion guru and expert, Richard Young.
He has also toiled relentlessly for such local events as Guyana Fashion Weekend and Guyana Model Search and Designers Portfolio.
Moreover, he has won various Best Gown awards at pageants, including Miss Guyana Talented Teen and Ms. Amerindian Heritage. He works with different groups of schoolchildren, teaching them movement and craft.
There is no telling where his creative energies can be channelled now that he feels very grounded to present his first major collection, ‘Mystic Fury’, which is a dialogue with his spirit, telling his own journey through fabric, style, and silhouette.
He crafts designs that speak volumes about his own metamorphosis. His mother, Joan Woolford, has been a great influence, and is the one he uses to vet many of his ideas and plans, not necessarily for sanction, but for motivation.
He is a sharing soul, and that is why this endeavours could not have been possible without the other designers, and also the help of some special believers like designer extraordinaire, Sonia Noel, past Designer Portfolio winner, John Quelch, Kofi Branch of Kobra Management Caribbean, Sade Richardson, Carles Griffith, Jermaine Broomes, Wayne Barrow, Sanjay Puran, Travis Bascom, Osaffo Barlow, Gillian James of Willow’s Bridal Boutique, and Lennox Cush of Star Party Rentals all contributing to this event.
Nelsion has also inspired and paved the way for young creative energies, mentoring fashion and set designers and always finding a way for them to exercise their passion.
It’s no accident that he chose the month of November, being Tourism Awareness Month, to present his first collection. He has seen where Fashion and Tourism go hand in hand in identity branding and destination marketing, and his beliefs were reinforced by his participation in the Guyana Fashion Weekend 2010.
There is also a very relevant connection between designing art and performing art, they co-exist to produce ‘style’.
This is where the Theatre Guild, where Nelsion is also a member, becomes paramount for facilitating his vision. Dr. Paloma Mohammed must be given kudos for her continuous support in all his endeavours. Joining the models on stage will be Jackie Hanover, Y3K and Keon Heywood; and there will be dances choreographed by Allison Glasgow. Some of the more prominent models would be present and past winners of the Guyana Model Search, like Charles Griffith, Natalya Thomas, Yohlanda Kerr, Latoya Whitehead, and Tyrone Hamid; topped off by Guyana’s lead models Meleesa Payne and Royan Abrams.
