Dallas-based designer Baqash Wilson will make his first appearance at Couture Fashion Week New York with the presentation of his latest menswear collection for his Konjo International label. The fashion show will be held at 8:00 pm on Friday February 13, 2015 in the Broadway Ballroom of the Crowne Plaza Times Square Manhattan, in the heart of the city.
Baqash Wilson is the winner of several national design awards including the first New Day Designer of the Year, Canadian Club Designers Showcase and Golden Designer Award. He has served as a costume designer for local productions of Dream Girls, The Wiz, Evita and several others. He has shown his menswear collections at South Africa Fashion Week which was featured on FTV, as well as at fashion events in in Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia and the United States. Mr. Wilson also has professional experience in the cosmetics industry, where his work as a make-up artist has appeared on numerous magazine covers and editorial features.
As a fashion designer, Mr. Wilson has prepared young women competing in top international beauty pageants including Miss World and Miss Universe for more than 20 years, and presently holds the license in Ethiopia for Miss World, Miss International, Miss Intercontinental and Top Model of the World and in the US Virgin Islands for Miss International and Top Model of the World. He launched Konjo International as a non-profit organization that allows him to leverage his vast experience in the fashion and beauty industries to help motivate young people worldwide looking to to enter international competitions or launch their careers as emerging fashion designers.