UPDATE: UMI models blaze runway with hot summer outfits
The pieces on display yesterday covered clothing for various activities for the summer especially for the BVI Summer Sizzle 60th edition.
According to organisers, the outfits on display were all pieces that can be worn at the Summer Sizzle All White party and the runway fashion show and after party. The White Fashion Gala - an elegant all white fashion affair - will be held at Culturevilla, adjacent to the Beef Island Bridge on Friday July 25, 2014.
The Funky Friday was titled 60 years of Fun and Fashion. The displays covered fashion for women that ranged from fairly conservative to outgoing and daring. For the men the fashion featured mostly sports and casual wear for the weekend.
See previous story published on July 17, 2014:
UMI’s Funky Friday to sizzle TGIF
UMI & BVI Summer Sizzle collaborate to usher in Fashion for Festival 2014
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Having had a lull for a few weeks UMI is back with the much anticipated Friday afternoon fashion treats of Funky Friday tomorrow July 18, 2014.
It’s something that blazes the frontage of the store and adds some bliss to the ‘Thank God it’s Friday’ (TGIF) that dominates after a long week in the offices and other areas work for persons of the Virgin Islands.
However with the air being ripe with the festivities for Tortola's 60th year of celebrations of Emancipation, UMI has joined forces with the coordinators of annual Summer Sizzle fashion weekend to usher in Festival with a Sizzle weekend.
Speaking with this news site one of the organizers of the UMI Funky Friday aspects of things Mr Damion C. Grange said that this Friday will be exemplary for the models, patrons and those who decide to go into their pockets to start getting their wardrobe.
“This week will see the explosion of Fashion in the BVI as the Annual Summer Sizzle gets underway. On Friday July 18, 2014 event sponsor UMI Fashions kicks things off with their usual Funky Fashion Friday – Summer Sizzle edition, under the theme “60 years of freedom and fashion.” Grange said.
He further added that the Funky Fashion Friday catwalk is expected to showcase UMI’s new summer arrivals, which are an anticipated showstopper! The show will be followed by a Summer Sizzle sale at the UMI store, with discounts of up to 50% off and a $20 store coupon to Summer Sizzle ticket holders.
Right after persons will have no trouble finding the next Friday after easing into the weekend spot as it is definitely be Bamboushay for the Summer Sizzle BVI 2014 official launch party. There persons will get the opportunity to mingle with models and other key players of the Summer Sizzle weekend features.
According to a release for that committee, “It’s about to get sizzlin’ hot at Bamboushay, the BVI’s social address on this Friday, July 18 for the Summer Sizzle BVI 2014 Launch Party. Bamboushay will offer Sizzle shots and signature cocktails all night long as a bevy of BVI’s beautiful models kick off the most anticipated fashion event in the Caribbean. The organizers are offering ticket specials and discounted weekend packages which will be available at the Launch Party.”
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