NEWS

RICK ANDERSON, the Founder, Director of Mauritius Fashion Festival (MFF) Regd No. 34599, Owner of Rick’s Models Agency Ltd company No. 197193 and affiliated to International Fashion and Music Festival Association Regd No. 13543.

Fashion Events are not met only with Model’s catwalk and Designer outfits. Fashion can also be a part of an artwork, colour trend, season’s outfits, innovative recycle costume, it also depicts a story at specific place or environment from ancient to modern time. It can also represents any religion or culture or simply depicting spiritual divinity. This is the concept which I have applied in all my fashion works in Mauritius.

From September 2013 to 2016, the International Fashion and Music Festival Association were organising fashion shows at Les Enfant Terrible Night Club (Theme: Pastel Colours Outfits),  Lion’s Club (Theme: Red & White Collection),  The Chef Restaurant (Theme: Indian Party Wear).

Hence in 2017, International Fashion and Music Festival Association has introduced Rick’s Models Agency to create more opportunity for young generation to join the fashion industry in Mauritius. Then, other fashion shows were held at Domaine les Pailles (Theme: Designer Party Wear), Beau Vallon Mall (Theme: Party Dresses), Save Mart (Theme: Divali Night Traditional Wear), Jin Fei (Theme: Casual Wear), Tanusree Events for Dancing Idol (Theme: Gods & Goddesses), Canma (Theme: Indian States Outfits), Cote D’Or Conventional Centre (Theme: Green Collection),  and did several fashion shows for Rajasthan Works Ltd (Theme: Traditional Outfits & Mauritian Wear).

Mauritius is a competitive fashion industry among fashion competitors, financial problems with pros and cons with lack of sponsorship, and investors are not willing to invest. This has inspired me to bring more challenges and make changes in fashion.

Mauritius Fashion Festival (MFF) is a platform which was launched in October 2020 for its 1^st edition held at Maritim Crystal Beach Hotel, Theme: Summer Collection & Haut Couture.The 2^nd edition was at RM Garden in January 2021, Theme: Traditional Wear & Casual outfits.The 3^rd edition of MFF was at Shotz Club, Theme: Winter Collection & Creative Designer Wear in May 2023.

MFF aims is to promote the local fashion industry for international investors at a higher level. Its vision is to come forward with future event editions. By attending various fashion week, mostly Paris Fashion Week, London Fashion Week and recently Thailand’s Fashion Week in 2022, was to bring new innovation to improve the Mauritian fashion lifestyle.

In 2021, Rick’s Models Agency was awarded by Miss Mr Ability Mauritius for our collaboration and support. In November 2023, Rajasthan Works Ltd has awarded Mauritius Fashion Festival/Rick’s Models Agency for its best fashion show presentation.

This year 2024, Mauritius Fashion Festival has been selected for Asia’s Golden Globe Award by Asia’s Awards powered by World Research Congress and United Research Council. They are the No.1 World Business Awards and it’s also the most prestigious event for supporting my fashion carrier for my talents, abilities, hard work and perseverance. They have also contribute, support and an inspiration for the fashion industry to achieve more success.

For more prestigious MFF events, in the world of today modern facilities and advance computerised lifestyle, MFF will propose ‘Fashion & Technology’, as a theme in the future. Mauritius Fashion Festival is encouraging new collaborators, fashion designers, international models, artists and more representatives within the fashion institution worldwide to form part of it.