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PHCCIMA Fashion Show Winner For Paris Fair
The Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce Industry, Mines and Agriculture will next year sponsor the winner of the 2012 PHCCIMA Fashion show, Mrs Linda Igwe-Ogbonnaya to the Paris Exhibition Fashion show.
The President of PHCCIMA, Engr. Exhibition Unachikwu stated this at the weekend while presenting Igwe-Ogbonnaya who goes by the Grand name ADY by Linda to newsmen at the Isaac Boro Park, venue of the on-going 8th Port Harcourt International Trade Fair.
Unachukwu who was recently elected PHCCIMA President at the Chamber’s Annual General Meeting in Port Harcourt said the objective of the fashion show which was co-sponsored by Wave Event Global an event management outfit, was to engage the interest of youths in fashion.
The show also seeks to provide a platform for enhancing the quest for brand exposure and entrepreneurship for up coming fashion designers, the PHCCIMA President said. In an interview with newsmen, the PHCCIMA fashion show winner, Linda Igwe-Ogbonnaya commend the PHCCIMAPresident, Engr. Emeka Unachukwu for introducing the show and availing her of the opportunity to express her inate talent.
The star who also won industrial sew equipment along with the sponsorship to the exhical fashion show in Paris said she will remain competitive fashion shows to achieve her full potentials.
The Imo-born rising fashion designer married to Ebonyi State urged to rising talents to believe in themselves in other to attain their fullest potentials.
Ayibatoaye Joe Pagatanga with the brand name JOE PAGATANGA emerged second at the fashion show, winning a chance to participate in the Nigerian fashion week and industrial sewing equipment while 83 & 80s finished third winning industrial sewing equipment and a chance to contest in the Nigerian fashion show.