Eager to grace the catwalk, male and female contestants competing in this year’s SAINT Fashion Face of the Caribbean competition were brimming with enthusiasm as they honed their modelling skills at the final training session last Sunday. Inside the Blue Mountain conference space at the AC Kingston Hotel, 80 aspiring models rehearsed their runway walks and envisioned their potential top-10 positions under the guidance of SAINT’s CEO, Deiwght Peters. “I have learnt how to properly posture my body and walk with confidence,” said 21-year-old Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts student Lewis McKinson, who holds both Jamaican and British citizenship.
“Throughout these training classes, I also learnt how to hold eye contact and carry myself in a certain way that others would think highly of me.” McKinson, currently in his second of a four-year Bachelor of Music degree programme with a major in drums, was scouted on Instagram by Peters and decided to enrol in the fashion competition. “I have been told often by people that I have the look, so I wanted to test my luck.
I am over the moon to be in this development phase, and I hope it goes well.” MIXED UP Clutching her stilettos after wrapping up a runway coaching session with SAINT supermodel Kai Newman, Shahine Parrish was aglow. “I was scouted twice by SAINT, first at Oberlin High when I was 17 and then COVID came, and everything got mixed up.
I was scouted again at Jose Marti Technical High Scho.