1
Your new favourite stack

Janice Derrick Jewellery

ART & CULTURE

5

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…

LATEST

The Orange Economy and the Islands: How the IDB Group is Reframing Caribbean Fashion as a Development Imperative

The Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) concept of the ‘orange economy’ — the creative industries as engines of GDP, employment and export diversification — has reshaped how the region’s development community talks about…

The Geography of Opportunity: Why Diaspora Designers Succeed Faster — and What That Tells Us About the System, Not the Talent

Caribbean designers based in London, New York, or Toronto are not more talented than those building their labels in Port of Spain, Kingston, or Bridgetown. They are operating inside a different system…

The Cloth featured in CANEX x Tranoi partnership
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…

4
Cardi B’s Plan for Grow-Good Beauty

Before the wigs, runway glamour and chart-topping dominance, Cardi B had a far more complicated relationship with her hair — one rooted in childhood insecurity and years of damage. Growing up in…

4
The Cloth Shines at London Fashion Week

Caribbean label The Cloth joins elite Brand63Africa cohort with exclusive Harrods partnership A luxury fashion brand from Trinidad and Tobago has stepped onto one of the world’s most prestigious stages — and…

34
Diotima Fall 2026

Rachel Scott delivered a defining moment this New York Fashion Week, balancing a high-profile debut at Proenza Schouler with a deeply personal outing for her own label, Diotima. If the dual showing…