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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…