Vancouver’s TRENDS Fashion Group hosted by local celebrity (Includes interview and first-hand account)

TRENDS is a fashion group of teenage for teenage and by teenage. It started in Toronto 6 years ago and it has its Vancouver chapter. Young girls throw the gauntlet to traditional concepts and perception of fashion by organizing workshops where they present fashion ideas that are far from what fashion has meant so far for many people.
While living with their bodies they own, being comfortable with themselves and how they look, they want to be, feel good and present themselves the way they are. In other words, no starved for money and anorexic, both bone-and-skin and grumpy looking “fabric hangers” who walk the high rank fashion show ramps of Paris, London, Milan or Tokyo any more.

Johana Ward, Mistress of Ceremonies, a host of Vancouver’s The Express on Shaw TV.

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The groups have workshops and discussions on how to develop their personal style in current fashion trends. The teens use their preferences to design a personal style that underlines their character, elevates confidence and radiates self-worth. It’s assisted by local fashion industry experts who provide guidelines on everything from how to wear great makeup to how to seminars and networking tips.

Jossie Wichrowski’s inspiring woman, Kathryn Hepburn.

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In the information about the event, the girls of TRENDS say:
“This year, the members of TRENDS Vancouver decided to explore the need our world has for outer beauty, supported by a strong foundation of inner beauty. We thought there was no better way to do this than to invite a woman who embodies these two qualities to be our keynote speaker.”
As a result they invited a former 2003 Miss Canada and runner up for the Miss World Nazanin Afshin-Jam to be the person whose recognized beauty and former and recent activity was growing exactly at the same time with the TRENDS.

Keynote speaker – former Miss Canada of 2003 and a runner-up for the Miss World, Nazanin Afshin-Jam.

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Nazanin is an international human rights activist, singer, songwriter and actor. She presides over the “Stop Child Execution” organization and is an advocate for human rights in Iran. She holds a double university degree and became an advocate with the Red Cross as a Global Youth Educator on the landmine crisis and children affected by war. Nazanin became an international campaign to save the life of Nazanin Fatehi who was a victim a violent attack and as a result of the events, when defending her life, she became a criminal and was imprisoned in Iran.

About 160 children in Iran, waiting in the death raw to be executed.

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Also Nazanin is a co-founder of the Stop Child Execution organization that battles to stop children execution that’s practiced in Iran and in other countries. She traveled a lot and met a lot of famous people.
Nazanin was fantastically interacting with the audience when asking questions and expecting the answers about the sense and meaning of beauty. She was a great and sharp minded speaker who could be a raw model for many famous figures of live.

Gina Constantino presenting her video “What is true beauty” that she made using real life actors – regular people from the street.

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During the event, the members of the TRENDS cited the poetry (Anna Dillman, “True beauty”) and presented own video (Gina Constantino, “What is true beauty”), Jossie Wichrowski was talking about the famous and inspiring women and Sioban McCormick explained the mission of TRENDS.
The event was attended by some 130 people and finished with the period of answers and questions with the 2003 Miss Canada.

2003 Miss Canada with a group of women who put together the event “Beauty with a purpose”.

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