A MINIMALIST CARIBBEAN WOMAN

August 13, 2019 From T&T to New York and back, the blossoming lifestyle brand Willow & Oak is bringing a new minimal, modern aesthetic to the Caribbean. When I first stumbled across Shandelle Alleyne-Loregnard, she was styling fashion shows for Meilingand editorial spreads for Fashion Focus magazine. Later, she appeared on my radar again as […]

A LIFE OF SERVICE

July 10, 2019 It’s Thursday evening at One Woodbrook Place and Chef Brigette is house-sitting for a friend with the assistance of their surprising friendly cat, who nonchalantly walks all over us on the living room couch.. If you follow Brigette on social media, you know she’s never short of an opinion and is definitely […]

NEW CALYPSO

June 06, 2019 Jimmy October, whose real name is L’shun Emmanuel, is a 24-year-old singer, songwriter, rapper, poet and creative director from Trinidad & Tobago who explores his musical talents in transcendental ways that have redefined how we perceive the sounds we call our own. Along with childhood friend Nicholas Subero, October formed the ‘OverDose […]

A WORD WITH SHIVANEE RAMLOCHAN

April 04, 2019 Words. We seem to ignore their power. Shivanee Ramlochan weaves her tapestries of words in such a fashion that each grabs your soul. Her book Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting contains pages of poems that grasp different parts of your consciousness in a way that cannot be escaped. They actually haunt […]

A CARIBBEAN FASHION LEGACY

January 14, 2017 “My competition, or your competition, is not a designer who stands next to you in Trinidad. My competition is not Claudia, or Heather, or Robert or an emerging designer. My competition is the world, the whole world.” I first met Meiling in 2009, while creating her folkloric wonderland of a website. It […]