If you look up ‘wanderlust’ in the dictionary, you just might find the name Shanya Greene. For many years the designer has been an avid traveller. In the past two years alone she embarked on a nomadic journey spanning New York, Europe, Trinidad, and Bali. Her clothing brand, by SHANYA, formerly known as BagLady Basics, serves as a testament to her escapades. “When I travel I walk a lot. I want something that feels comfortable.” Even as we spoke, Shanya was somewhere else. While I looked out at the night sky, Shanya perched in her Sydney apartment where the day was still new.
Brittney Williams, affectionately known as Stikxz is a creative through and through. The internationally celebrated young chef from Jamaica is making waves across the globe with her eclectic culinary artistry.
Over geranium tea in Barataria, Trinidad, I met with Baidawi Assing, the creator of the popular Trinidadian YouTube food channel, with 115,000 followers and growing, ‘EatAhfood’.
Symoné Currie, is the founder and creative genius at the helm of ‘Metal x Wire’ -a brand that embraces fluidity and individual expression with a penchant for melding the delicate with the daring in a way that challenges tradition.
Jeffrey Wight, known in the artistic world as Will the Wolf, creates music that exudes an undeniable magnetism. With each release, he invites us on an epic journey, unfolding tales through music and video that range from whimsical to intensely heartfelt. You can’t help but be swept along.
“There is a measure of sustenance when you get to stand and observe something completed as your future self, I love that feeling. When you see what you were able to do – and I do remind myself often by imagining how it would feel to experience hanging up a finished piece or putting it out there to be bashed and /or loved. I typically imagine all this before even starting anything and then we get here – a finished product.” – Kriston Banfield
In Guadeloupe, Zoé Pheron uses embroidery and iconography as meditation. Inspired by the nature and energy of her new and old home, Zoé, who left Guadeloupe as a child, returned amidst the chaos of covid and the brewing of Black Lives Matter protest to sew centipedes and mermaids into fabric.
APRIL, 2023 Victoria Tom creates clothes you want to live in. The composing of an essential ‘made in the Caribbean’ wardrobe. Clothes I’d wear daily. This idea of wearing anything repeatedly might sound like blasphemy in a time where it seems most fashionable to document every moment and outfit for a digital show. Still, Victoria […]
SEPTEMBER, 2021 Like most Trinis these days, Marc Farrell is talking passionately about rum. However his passions extend past cause celebre. Over an afternoon zoom call in October 2020, Farrell discussed the brand’s purpose, his journey to it and the possibilities sealed in the company’s transparent bulbs. Ten to One’s sobriquet evokes visions of a […]
August 26, 2020 In a world on the brink of environmental catastrophe there is no shortage of causes to align yourself with to help turn back the clock. From reducing carbon emissions, waste reduction and management, preserving ecosystems, protecting endangered species and tackling consumerism. One area of activism is undoubtedly food. The choices we make […]
