The creation of the new Guyana Fashion Designers Council seems set to create lucrative entrepreneurial opportunities in a sector which has, up until now, been unable to come even close to realising what is widely believed to be its considerable potential.
This is not meant to nay say the successes of some of the big names that have realised breakthroughs on a bigger scale here, in the Caribbean and even further afield. Names like Donna Ramsammy-James, Derek Moore, Pat Coates, Michelle Cole, Sonia Noel and Pamela Fox are among those that come to mind. These, by virtue of their unquestioned talents and, perhaps more importantly, hard work, have been able to carve out niches on a limited local market.
For all its constraints, fashion design in Guyana has managed to grow beyond the creation of