PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: TOURIST BOARD PARTNERS WITH EXCITING MISS TURKS & CAICOS UNIVERSE BEAUTY ORGANIZATION: Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands; Wednesday, December 19th 2012- The Turks and Caicos Tourist Board announced today its partnership with the newly established Miss Turks and Caicos Universe Beauty Organization Ltd. (MTCUBO), to produce the upcoming 2013 Miss [...]
Recently I was lucky enough to travel through several islands in the Caribbean speaking to people instrumental in the areas of design and culture and researching dress history and development. Having visited a number of different countries I’ve seen some amazing creations and spoken to some fantastic people. One of the remits of my research [...]
On a recent trip to Trinidad we had the pleasure of going to the launch of fashion and culture magazine 6 Carlos. Apart from the delight of schmoozing with the creative glitterati of Trinidad, the 6 Carlos magazine itself is an absolute joy to behold. Named after the address of the Meiling fashion studio, this collaborative creative [...]
By Ericka Basile In the late 1970s and 80s, during hip hop’s humble beginnings, female rappers developed carefully costumed persona’s found in concert flyers, album covers, and vividly articulated rap lyrics-unforgettable looks that helped define the rap genre- now itself a worldwide cultural force, originally created by youth of the African Diaspora in New York City. On [...]
This year’s Caribbean Fashion Week, held at the Jamaican National Stadium was a riot of colour and music. Despite still having teething problems surrounding event organisation and management, the show goes from strength to strength boasting big name performances from the likes of Estelle, Brian Mcknight and Konshens. So if we’re talking international fashion in [...]
Sigh, here we go again! Another designer blindly and indiscriminately tramples all over the historical references and painful realisations of people of African heritage with their “crazy” and “quirky” designs. But wait, is that what’s really going on here or is the intent something much more sinister and unethical? Jeremy Scott a designer with a [...]
The Isango Ensemble are one of the most talented and creative theatre companies to come out of South Africa. Taking classic stories and transposing them into a South African township setting. This month saw them arrive at London’s Hackney Empire to deliver a short run of the La Boheme, Aesops Fables and the Ragged Trouser [...]
If you’ve ever seen the 1994 film The Mask with Jim Carrey or seen the scene in the lindy hop scne from the film Malcolm X then you will have seen the exuberance and unabashed gall of the zoot suit! The zoot suit came into prominence amongst young African American males around the 1930’s and [...]
Well I started with our national wear, because as I teach the students we are of strong African heritage and Africans love colour. Colour played an important part in the choosing of the materials of our national wear. Now we have what we call the Madras which is Indian cloth but what we have today [...]
What is the Africa fashion Guide? The Africa Fashion Guide is an information based platform which promotes and supports the full supply chain of African fashion and textiles. So it’s a one stop shop, it’s a somewhere people can go for researching textiles, production from fabric cultivation through to manufacturing units throughout the continent. What [...]
