Alicia Roache, Staff Reporter
Winners of the Zahni Super Fashion Face of Jamaica female and male competitions, Nacia Anglin and Christopher Jarret, pose at the end of the show on Saturday. The competition was held at The Vineyard, Mandeville. - NATHANIEL STEWART PHOTO
NACIA ANGLIN is the Super Fashion Face (Female) of Jamaica for 2005. Christopher Jarret is the Super Fashion Face (Male) of Jamaica for 2005.
It took approximately six hours to learn that.
It also required that you sit or stand, depending on inclination and timing in the cold Mandeville air on Saturday night, endure tiresome presentations of numerous finalists and a forgettable performance by two of Mandeville's upcoming acts to get to the announcement, which happened at some time after 2 a.m.
This was Zahni's Super Fashion Face(s) of Jamaica model search.
The search, held at The Vineyard, seemed well conceived and properly produced at first.
A spacious venue, a decent and accessible catwalk, proper lighting, large flat screen display and a plethora of decent models meant that Zahni had stepped up its game considerably.
And to indicate that he meant business, Marlon Bolton, director of the model agency, announced that he aims at signing 35 models to international agencies this year.
He also wanted to find a good 20 males and 30 females from the group presented at the search to offer contracts with Zahni.
That should not have been such a major feat, though. There were enough model hopefuls at the search to populate two agencies. The difficulty, however, seemed to be keeping the show within a reasonable time frame.
An orderly presentation of the models, both male and female, in the various categories was good. Until you learnt that the models were for six categories Petite Fashion Face of Jamaica, 25 Sexiest Island Women, Super Fashion Face of Jamaica (Male), Super Fashion Face of Jamaica (Female) and Male Face of the Caribbean.
After a while it was difficult to differentiate the models and the competitions and with so many categories for which winners were to be chosen, it was understandable that the show went a bit over time.
However, while many were willing to settle down for the announcement which took place early Sunday morning, many others left as the clock wound down.
Not surprisingly sponsors for the event, Soft Sheen Carson, also packed up their booth and began exiting long before the announcement was made.
Throughout the night, along the way to the announcement, designers Shemdeeke, Yolande Bennett, Clinton Smith, Chris Pablo, Dexter Pottinger, Carl Sway and Ray Lindo made presentations. That came, however, too near to the close of the presentations when the patience and the attention of the audience had waned for there to be much response from the crowd.
And except for those who obviously were either close friends or relatives, there was not much reaction from the patrons with the announcement of the winners either.
Without much fanfare, Shana Blair was named the winner of the 25 Sexiest Island Women contest and Joelle Ricketts the Petite winner, while Marvin Williams was named the winner of the Male Face of the Caribbean contest.
