Jamaican Fashion Designer to showcase 2007 Spring/Summer Collections at the Miami Fashion Week of The Americas
MIAMI – The fashion winds are picking up speed as Miami Beach braces itself for another vibrant Fashion Week of the Americas May 6th through May 10th, at the Miami Beach Convention Center in the heart of South Beach.
Sobol Fashion Productions, Inc. will provide a dynamic forum offering international exposure and promotion specifically for the designers of Latin America and the Caribbean. Hailing Latin America, the Caribbean, U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia; a multitude of designers will participate in the 8th annual Miami Fashion Week of The Americas 2006.
Among countless fashion presentations, a bright star is poised to shine on Sunday, May 7th at 7pm at Miami Beach Convention Center, 1900 Convention Center Drive in Ballroom D. Miki Nembhard, the celebrated designer for GIA, Jamaican-born, now Toronto based, will present the Spring Summer 2007 Collection.
Miki Nembhard
Comprised of a range of bold and daring swimwear to luxurious, intricately beaded eveningwear, the collection is described by Nembhard as “a collection of bold, daring and confident silhouettes in luxurious fabrics; reserved for the sensual, confident and savvy woman.”
Nembhard launched GIA in 2003 and has since won the CVM Avant Garde Designer of the Year Award (in Jamaica) and has showcased in both New York and London, England. Her celebrated women’s wear line GIA, is ultra-feminine, sexy, daringly risqué and is best suited for the only the most confident woman – both in spirit and personal style.
Miki Nembhard’s collections are known for both the emotional power and raw energy marrying the romantic, modern and unconventional nature of her clothes and their construction. She juxtaposes contrasting elements; fragility and strength, tradition and modernity and fluidity and severity.
Perhaps best known for revolutionizing fashion with her unstructured jacket and love for the dynamics of the fashions of the Edwardian and Victorian era, she has over the short span of years by fashion industry standards designed and developed a stable of collections, including her signature GIA Collection as well as GIA Swimwear -offering a choice of lifestyles to the marketplace.
Today, the company’s product range includes women’s clothing, with expansion into accessories. GIA is poised to add to its offering shoes and bags, watches, eyewear, jewelery, fragrances and cosmetics.
In her ongoing effort to illuminate infinite strength and beauty of the ideal GIA woman, Nembhard as strategically partnered with Tropic Spa, Inc. a progressive company that has successfully revolutionized spray mist tanning with an all-natural ten second mist tanning system touting the quickest, easiest and safest “faux-tan” on the market with gorgeous results – a natural looking glow with no orange tint or streaking www.tropicspagroup.com.
A decorative Tropic Spa Tanning Mist unit will be on site throughout Fashion Week of the Americas; providing complimentary spray mist tanning sessions throughout Miami Fashion Week.
A pre-show VIP rooftop soiree entitled “OASIS” at the Hotel Victor on Saturday, May 6th from 1-4pm will provide a sneak preview of the GIA Swimwear Collection and Tropic Spa will provide complimentary mist tanning sessions in celebration of GIA by Miki Nembhard’s Spring/Summer 2007 Collection.
Unique jewelry for the GIA by Miki Nembhard Spring/Summer 2007 Collection will appear courtesy of www.BuddhaSoulStyle.com
Shoes, Handbags and various other accessories courtesy of C. Madeleine, “The Worlds Largest Classic Designer and Coututre Showroom” in North Miami Beach www.CMadeleines.com.
Sample of Miki’s collection
Insatiable Swimwear
Modern Chic
Effortless Evening
