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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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Aisling Camps Fall 2026

Applause filled the room for Aisling Camps as the budding doyenne of knitwear unveiled her first runway collection at New York Fashion Week, presenting at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea. Set against a…

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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.…

Whose Fashion Is It, Anyway? How Caribbean Governments Are — and Are Not — Building the Policy Infrastructure Their Designers Need

From Trinidad and Tobago’s decade-long experiment with a dedicated fashion state agency to Jamaica’s 2025 green paper, Barbados’s legislative framework, and Guyana’s newly formed Fashion Council, Caribbean governments are increasingly engaged with…

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…

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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…