With 20 years of history bubbling to a boil, last Sunday night Deiwght Peters and his band of merry models took the AC Hotel Kingston by storm for the Saint Fashion Face of the Caribbean Competition. With 43 female and 38 male contestants, the cohort of future fashionistas displayed the skills and talents that they honed over the past month with the assistant of the Saint International CEO himself. Addressing the audience early in the night, Peters cooed over this year’s class.
“We’ve seen hundreds of new faces and they’ve gone on to do the country proud. When you see this new group, you’ll have seen there was not one, not two, not even 10, but at least 20 great prospects,” he said. Taking the stage, the contestants aimed to impress the panel of judges, which included local stakeholders as well as fashion experts from Italy, Spain, the USA, the UK, Germany.
With performance by local artistes Tina, J’Calm and Saint favourite D’Angel scattered in-between, the time soon came for the judges to narrow it down to the top three. Of the male contestants, Peters began by saying the third-place choice was a shock to him but he “fully endorses it”. Taking the third-place spot was Nikul Patterson.
The 17-year-old, clad in a blue suit and white turtleneck, with equally white trainers, stood at a towering 6 feet 3 inches. Never breaking character all through his victory lap, the teen remained stoic. Claiming second was 16-year-old Sajar Graham.
Even taller than the last.