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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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 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…
