Marlayca Designs Agency brings new hopes for Salone models

Marlayca Designs and Modeling Agency, launched on September 22^nd at 34 Adelaide Street in Freetown, is the new hope for aspiring models and designers in Sierra Leone. (Photo: Founder and CEO of Marlayca Designs, Hawa, displays her unique creations )

The opening ceremony was thronged by fashion designers and models from different parts of the country.

Founder and CEO of Marlayca Designs and Modeling Agency, Hawanatu A. Kargbo told this reporter it’s her long term dream to make young people realize their beauty and dreams in fashion and modeling in Sierra Leone.

She said she was inspired by her passion in modeling and fashion as well as her desire to promote local African costumes designed with local fabrics, adding that her aim is to attract tourists and make them feel and see the beauty of African designs.

“I want to showcase and make important to the world the true beauty of local fabrics and dresses in Sierra Leone and make people in other parts of the world love African dresses,” she said.

She also said that fashion houses in the country are not united and that they are not sharing ideas to create new designs as is being done in other African countries like Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria.

Kargbo implored young people in modeling, especially ladies, to be focused and not to allow themselves to be used by other people for money.

She said this is the appropriate time for fashion designers and models to work together and build a modeling empire in Sierra Leone for economic development in the country.

Mustapha Kamara

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