Fashion Seduction lends helping hand

GARY CARDINEZ

THE media got a taste of the Rotary Club of St Augustine West grand fundraiser Se’duction De La Mode (Fashion Seduction) at the Rooftop Restaurant, Eric Williams Medical Science Complex, Mt Hope.

The 8 pm press conference saw president Dillard Nelson and PRO Curtis Gopie outlining the logistics of the fundraiser since it will be held at Green Meadows, Santa Barbara Boulevard, Santa Cruz, on June 2.

Richard Young of the Cloth is the creative director of Se’duction De La Mode and he promises it will be no ordinary fashion show.

“Fashion has a magnetic appeal which rallies folks together this show is about making betterment for humanity so I will make it into something that people want to attend. It will be fashion, beauty and art.

Designers will not just show off their wares but they will have an opportunity to network,” said Young.

The fundraiser which is a fashion show and tea affairs will feature designers The Cloth, Christian Boucard, Shawn Griffith-Perez, DAWW Creations, Sheldon Warner of S M Warner and Art with Attitude, Andrew Weekes of AWD Collections, Stacy Smith Designs, Luke Lashley and Jade Wiltshire of JW Collection.

The funds collected at this event will go towards the Rotary Club of St Augustine West’s continued effort to upgrade the Medical Paediatric Ward 2 at the Mt Hope.

The club recognises that many people, though not Rotarians, contribute to making the community and country a better place. In this regard, it will be honouring Dr Carol La Chapelle (dance) and Edwin Crazy Ayoung (calypso) at the fundraiser.

Rotary has a motto of Service Above Self and the St Augustine West club has added a second motto, Service to Youth by promoting, encouraging and helping the youth through its Rotaract Club.

In keeping with this motto of Service to Youth the club has chosen to highlight two young people at the fashion event. One is designer and model, 19-year-old Jade Wiltshire, a past student of the University of the West Indies who has been recently accepted into Washington University of Medicine in Barbados.

Wiltshire started modelling at 15 with the House of Jacqui. She also went on to do Red Runway and San Fernando Fashion Week. In 2018 JW Collection was born and showcased for the first time at ECO Fashion Week.

The other youth is Megan Merrick, reigning Miss Central Carnival Queen who is also a sixth form student at Holy Faith Convent, Couva. She is writing CAPE exams in sociology, business management, physical education and communication studies.Merrick has a strong desire to be a psychologist and to assist with social work for special needs children.

Her enthusiasm for fashion and modelling stems from her mother Marcia who is a former pageant winner and model.

Entertainment for Se’duction De La Mode will be supplied by Ruth Osman, Anastacia Richardson and Miguella Simon, with master of ceremonies duty going to Errol Fabien.