Wanza's Designs

1. Look at the Top 5′s dresses from last year’s pageant, and get inspired! You’re not looking at their dresses to choose your favorite one so you can launch a vicious dress hunt to find one of their exact dresses. You are just looking to get an idea of what is appropriate for that particular pageant. While you are researching the pageant and looking at the top contestants’ dresses, consider these questions: Do all of these dresses have anything in common? Are they all bright colors or are most of the dresses neutral colors? Are the dresses form fitting? Or are the dresses flowy? Are their pageant dresses on the sexier side or more classic? These are just a few things to consider when you choose your dress. You want to stand out and be unique, but you also want to make sure you have a good idea what the standard is for that particular pageant. I say it all the time, but every pageant and pageant system is different. Do your research on the pageant beforehand, so nothin...

Big, bold and beautiful color-blocking is high fashion's answer to a Mark Rothko painting. The abstract expressionist's signature "multiform" paintings celebrated contrasting and complementary colors. In fashion, designers are using bright hues taken from the opposite sides of the color wheel to create stunning ensembles. Want proof? Just peek at almost any women's magazine cover, and you're likely to see a current example of the color-blocking trend. But even in the anything-goes world of fashion, where yesterday's must-have, cutting-edge runway styles are dismissed just a few months later, there are some basic rules to help you get the most out of color blocking. The first is to understand the color wheel and how colors match (or, perhaps more importantly, don't match). Think of the primary colors -- blue, red, and yellow -- as three points of the clock face stationed at 12, 4 and 8 (like the three points of the Mercedes-Benz logo)...

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Shoes another big twitch and finishing look to the color blocking ensemble

The silhouette, the curves, the volume of the many dresses I bring to life; along with the many wraps I create, is how I Mwanza Mainza Glenn embrace fashion. Designing, one of my first loves, has been one of the many talents I have displayed since early childhood. Influenced and encouraged mainly by my mother, who sews and has used many of my designs for her customers, I continually persevered in order to enhance my ability as a budding designer. I was further inspired when, at the age of eleven, I used one of my sketches for an art examination and was awarded an excellent grade. I can still remember my art teacher telling me, " that was very creative, and don't ever stop doing it." In 2009 I sent an application to be a participant in Facts Three (3) and it was accepted. I can remember going into the competition very confident. I thought I was the only teenager with my level of ability, but I soon came to the realization that Guyana truly has ...