Maria Parascheva Beia, a 12-year-old student from Bucharest, has won the Fashion Runway Dubai 2021 international contest, for the 12-14 age category, as well as the "Best Ramp Walk" award.
This talent event was organized by Vivz World Fashion during the period of December 8-10 and involved several trials: vocal performance, stage movement, fashion show or delivering a speech.
"She managed to surprise the jury through the depth of her message, through her stage presence and clothing, being declared the winner of the contest for the 12-14 age category, thus achieving the trophy and the crown. She also received the Best Ramp Walk award," the girl's mother, Violeta Beia, declared for AGERPRES.
Maria's preparations for the contest in Dubai started shortly before the event. Violeta Beia says that Maria also took two hours of modeling class, where her teacher was Andreea Larisa Blidariu, who represented Romania at the Miss Asia Global in 2018.
"It is a contest of skills. A contest of fashion, but of skills. That is why there was also a talent event, she sang, she danced, she had a speech. It wasn't just modeling and fashion show. (...) The contest went on for three days, with a talent event, vocal interpretation, presenting a Romanian national garb, a speech about Romania, a speech about herself. The way in which she related with the other contestants, attitude...," Violeta Beia described her daughter's experience, a student at the Goethe German College in Bucharest.
Next year, she will be involved in presenting the contest. Furthermore, she will make an appearance in an international movie with all the winners and the countries they are from.
Maria Parascheva Beia is the protagonist of the children's short film "3 hours as an adult", a production of the "Buftea Studios" Academy for Television and Cinema. Maria had TV appearances and took part in the National Festival for Creation and Interpreting "Mamaia Copiilor", alongside the "Sound of Music" choir - professor coordinator Cristina Manoliu.AGERPRES