Fashion Network Nepal is organizing the first-ever Nepal Fashion Festival. According to artist Prashant Tamrakar, the festival aims to connect young talents from abroad with skilled individuals in the country. Scheduled from May 11th to 13th at Lalitpur’s Sanepa Heritage Garden, the festival focuses on youth and women empowerment through fashion, beauty, and lifestyle presentations. Tamrakar highlighted the festival’s main objective of managing and bridging the market gap between Nepali designers, local products, brands, and market relations. The event will feature fashion runways, panel discussions, seminars, fashion photo exhibitions, and around 60 stalls.
For the event preparation Saturday a model audition was conducted in which 100 plus models were participating in the audition . The judges included actor and model Prashant Tamrakar, beauty entrepreneur Deepa Gurung, Miss Nepal Earth Dr. Shirisha Shrestha, fashion designer Yubi Thapa, and photographer Rajbhai Suwal, among others.