The walk

Models are an integral part of the fashion industry. Without a model, a designer’s creation will not get the life it gets on the ramp.

Training and grooming is a big part of a model’s life. And even for TGIF-NFW, the training of the models for the week began on August 29.

Choreographer Ayushi Shah is busy as the D-day approaches more near.

Shah, who is working with her assistant Bikash Khatiwada, is a familiar face in the Nepal fashion industry. Shah started her career as a model in 2000 and has to her credit around 15 music videos and many ramp walks. She took up choreography in 2008 and has a number of solo works to her credit with IEC Saptahik Designer Contest 2009 and IEC Designer Contest 2010 being the prominent ones.

Of TGIF-NFW, she says, “Altogether there are five sequences and we have planned accordingly and arranged everything with the designers, models and music.”

She is training eight female and 10 male models.

The ramp is 60 feet which is “pretty long”.

The biggest challenge for Shah is “less Nepali models, while coordinating with the international models at the last hour will be a big challenge!”

Preference this year has been given to “good performance and good height”. Shah revealed, “We have laid more emphasis on the stance and posture of the models. So their grooming is more focused on the posture and expression in a more theatrical style.”