{"id":165979,"date":"2026-03-17T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165979\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:23:08","slug":"hawaii-swimwear-designer-casting-models-for-new-york-fashion-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165979\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii swimwear designer casting models for New York Fashion Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; A Hawai\u02bbi designer is offering local models a chance to walk the runway at New York Fashion Week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kona-based designer Jamiana Tam has opened applications for models to showcase her new Hilia Swimwear collection in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Applicants are asked to submit a full-body photo, a headshot, and a video of themselves walking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The deadline to apply is Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAs a Native Hawaiian brand, it\u2019s important to me that this moment creates access for others,\u201d Tam wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cMy goal is to bring local Hawaii models to New York Fashion Week and give people from our islands the chance to walk a global runway while staying rooted in who they are and where they come from,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-us-bring-hawaii-talent-to-new-york-fashion-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-us-bring-hawaii-talent-to-new-york-fashion-week\">Tam has also launched a GoFundMe to help cover travel expenses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; A Hawai\u02bbi designer is offering local models a chance to walk the runway at New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15879,68093,9,6231,11,10,68092],"class_list":["post-165979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-casting","tag-model","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-fashion-week","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-swimwear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}