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Just Giselle

It’s an unseasonably warm Saturday morning in October, and Giselle Laronde-West can’t stop dancing. It’s her birthday month and, on set for our Body & Age issue, it’s a party. “I haven’t worn…

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The Trade Behind the Textile: How CANEX Is Wiring Caribbean Designers Into the Global Fashion Economy

Afreximbank’s Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) programme has spent years building infrastructure for the continent’s creative industries. Now, with a transatlantic vision and a strategic foothold at Paris’s most commercially powerful fashion trade…

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Who Moves Caribbean Fashion?

Introducing the inaugural Caribbean Lookbook List: 100+ Makers, Movers, and Muses… Most of the crochet in Rachel Scott’s Diotima collections is made by the Bonny Gate Women’s Group in Saint Mary, Jamaica.…

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Shoma the Label Spring/Summer 2026, A Thread Across the Water

Shoma the Label SS2026 collection finds its soul where the Caribbean meets the subcontinent — and the result is unforgettable. The invitation said five o’clock. The presentation, by deliberate design, would not…

The Art of Being Present, with Madeleine Miller

At a sun-warmed studio inside one of Port of Spain’s most storied addresses, Madeleine Miller has spent nearly three decades proving that the most radical thing a Caribbean woman can do is…

The Export Equation: Caribbean Export Development Agency and the Long Game of Building a Fashion Trade Infrastructure

For over two decades, Caribbean Export has been the region’s most consistent institutional champion of fashion as a trade sector. Its record reveals both what systematic support can achieve — and the…

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The Capital Question: C15 Studios and the Case for a Caribbean-Owned Creative Finance Model

While multilateral institutions debate frameworks and development banks disburse grants, C15 Studios, a Trinidad-based private equity initiative, has been building something different: a financial services model that treats Caribbean creative professionals as…

Stitching Together a Region: The UNESCO Transcultura Programme and the Making of a Caribbean Fashion Generation

Funded by the European Union to the tune of €15 million and implemented by UNESCO across 17 Caribbean nations, Transcultura was the most ambitious multilateral cultural investment the region had ever seen.…