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…
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…
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…
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…
