Tuesday, July 24 2012

Athaliah Samuel, Trinidad and Tobago’s contestant for the 2012 Miss World competition has hit the ground running as she has been selected for the quarter-finals of the Top Model competition.

Samuel left TT last week for China to participate in challenges and competitions associated with the pageant, leading up to the finals to be held in August at the Ordos Stadium Arena, Ordos, Inner Mongolia.

Ahead of the opening ceremony, which takes place today at the new Donsheng, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, 118 contestants from all over the world participated in a casting call for the Top Model competition which takes place on August 12.

Samuel was among 47 beauty queens to be chosen to compete in the next round of competition which will take her closer to a spot in the finals of the event when the ultimate top model will be decided.

For the final, contestants will be modelling clothes from Chinese luxury cashmere brand, ERDOS 1436, called “cashmere couture” by the brand’s creative director, Graeme Black.

Black and three other ERDOS 1436 representatives judged the queens at the casting call. According to an article posted on the official Miss World web page, Black spoke to the women before judging began, and told them to “tell him a catwalk story with their walk” to be selected as he was looking for someone to suit his brand, and who could interpret the clothes in their own way.