Sean Nero

News wave de­sign­er Nooru­lain Agha-Gan­ga might be from Pak­istan, but her flair for de­sign­ing for Caribbean women is nat­ur­al.Rather than do­ing cou­ture lines, Agha-Gan­ga has been aim­ing for the easy, breezy de­tails that con­sti­tute is­land life.Judg­ing from last Sun­day's un­veil­ing of The Noor Col­lec­tion held at the T&T Coun­try Club, Champs El­y­sees, Mar­aval, the young de­sign­er has been achiev­ing her ob­jec­tive. Taste­ful de­signs in de­sir­able cuts that are sure to ap­peal to vary­ing ages filled the run­way at the sig­na­ture event.

Spon­sored by Revlon, An­gos­tu­ra Rum cock­tails, Caribbean Belle, Toy­ota and Cre­ativeTT, the open air event had a trou­bled start.Ad­ver­tised to start at 3.30 pm, guests jos­tled for seats with the best shade from the ear­ly af­ter­noon sun. But mo­ments lat­er, they aban­doned their seats due to the driz­zle which in­ten­si­fied.But as fate would have it, the weath­er sub­sided and in the blink of an eye, mod­els took the spot­light show­cas­ing every­thing from the flir­ty to the con­ser­v­a­tive, form fit­ting and breezy to the sat­is­fac­tion of the au­di­ence.The "A-lis­ters" in at­ten­dance in­clud­ed Miss Uni­verse 1997 Janelle Com­mis­siong-Chow, Miss World 1986 Giselle Laronde-West, for­mer cap­tain of the T&T and West In­dies teams Daren Gan­ga, right-hand­ed T&T bats­man Adri­an Bharath, Marie Ab­dul­lah, the wife of re­tired diplo­mat Frank Ab­dul­lah, Dr Char­lot­tle Bigland, wife of the British High Com­mis­sion­er al­so came out for an af­ter­noon of de­light­ful fash­ion.