FACE of WOHA London to participate in Dubai World Fashion Festival Awards as media partner
By Ademu Usman Idakwo
In a bid to ensure women’s empowerment in society, a London-based international Platform, the Face of Women of Hearts Award, WOHA, has signed an agreement to participate as a media partner with the organisers of the World Fashion Festival Awards, WFFA, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, UAE.
The Founder/ Chief Executive Officer, and CEO of the organisation, Dr Desziree Richardson, stated this in London.
Dr Richardson, who has been empowering women with her project globally, said women are the backbone of a nation, adding that it is an admitted reality that no society can survive without women.
She said the World Fashion Festival Awards slated for February 2023 is another opportunity to showcase women’s talents to the world.
“We must empower women to contribute to the well-being of their families and communities,” She stated.
The World Fashion Festival Awards, WFFA, is owned by an international personality from Romania, Ioana Al Bada, used featured art exhibitions, book launches, product launches and sure fashion shows with worldwide designers.
Bada is a socialite who had several awards from all over the world, including the Excellence Award from the Consulate General of Liberland in October 2021, the Middle East Business Women and Leaders Achievement Awards, the Shield of Excellence for Hit High Events Agency, UEA and Appreciation Award for the voluntary services by the Consulate General of Romania in Dubai.
A holder of a Masters’s Degree in Business administration from the prestigious Academy of Economics Studies, Bucharest, Romania, she defined herself as a girl with a thousand dreams and hopes. She was born on October 19, 1984, in camping, a city in the Prahova valley, full of picturesque landscapes and people with big souls. An international figure was raised by a grandmother, a descendant of the Cantacuzino family, a Romanian aristocratic family, where the education played high and restrictive. She was said to have received rigorous education with predefined rules.
After her eight years of experience in European marketing, sales orientation, techniques and methods within companies, organisation and management of a company’s marketing resources and many other activities, she went from Italy towards the Middle East.
“Dubai, Oh yes, Dubai, with its oriental aromas, veils, perfumes and pearls, conquered me from the first moment. Life opened new doors for me to a culture that I had never met and that I had only read about in books and magazines,” she stated
The last year’s event had guests like Maria Elisa Coelho (the niece of Paolo Coelho), who launched her book during the event, they were other participants, including Ziad Nakad, Vincent Mcdoom and Mr Raquel Maftah, one of the greatest artists in the world.
One of the founders who participated in the 2021 fashion festival is Andrea Cormier Wacker. She is also of Romanian origin but lived all her life in Germany. Wacker, a former ballerina and model in Canada and America, started her career as a designer.
She participated in different fashion shows in Italy, honoured to be the designer for various artists for over three years.
She has the following awards to her credit;
Festina Award in 2020 Naples, European Award, “Best Contemporary Design” Milano Fashion Week, Catwalk of 5 Continents, Red Carpet del Cuore, Cannes Film Festival, Canada- Most inspirational designer of the Universe and Time square Bill Board New York.
She said, “When I started my theatre career, at a very young age, after cabaret shows, I never thought that life could be changed and that I would take a different road because of my feet injury. As someone told me, God had a plan for all of us!”
Wacker, the founder of Duel Awards Dubai, is also a mother and a designer; she said she is fulfilled because of her child.
“I am that designer who keeps pursuing my dreams, working hard to bring them to reality,” she excitedly said.
She advised that no one should ever give up on anything they love to do, adding that she will keep trying to work hard to the expectation of her fans and promise to be living in disappointment.
