Winning accolades for designing unique national costumes for the Miss India contestants, designers Melvyn Noronha and Devashish Majumdar created another international splash at the Miss Teen Continents 2016 USA where their national costume designed for Miss Teen UK Anjali Sinha (and later Miss Teen Continents) was adjudged the best. The costume also brought UK its first International National Costume award in its 62 year-old beauty pageant history. Creating the gown was an artistic labour of love, says Melvyn Noronha in this conversation with Patricia Ann Alvares.
How were you shortlisted to create this gown?
In search of proper pageant training and preparation , Ashvini’s mother Anjali Sinh met Shivalika Sharma of the Miss India organisation, who introduced me to them. When Anjali was crowned Miss Teen UK 2016, under the mentorship of the London School of pageantry, they approached me to design the national costume for the UK, after looking at my previous work profile online.
What was the theme of the Miss Teen UK (2016) national costume?
This story is from the Issue 7,2016 edition of TimelineGoa.
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Crowning Glory
Winning accolades for designing unique national costumes for the Miss India contestants, designers Melvyn Noronha and Devashish Majumdar created another international splash at the Miss Teen Continents 2016 USA where their national costume designed for Miss Teen UK Anjali Sinha (and later Miss Teen Continents) was adjudged the best. The costume also brought UK its first International National Costume award in its 62 year-old beauty pageant history. Creating the gown was an artistic labour of love, says Melvyn Noronha in this conversation with Patricia Ann Alvares.
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