THE BROWN COTTON GIRL STORY

October 26, 2018 Putting work out into the world to be judged is no easy task, but that’s the life we sign up for as artists and creatives. We think, we design, we make, we create, and then we publish, we exhibit. We have our creations walk the runways of life, all the while bracing […]
THE NEW COOL

I’ve always been a great admirer of janice’s work and she was one of the first designers on our is ultimate christmas wish list.
SCIENCE IN STYLE

September 20, 2018 Human behaviour and biology. Patterns, cloths and colours. They’re not necessarily groupings that you naturally associate with each other. Which is probably what makes the Enclothed Cognition collection so fascinating. The collaboration is the brainchild of Ulric + Arly’s Mark King and Noir Near Future’s Bregje Cox and explores an interesting space […]
CULTURAL DUALITY

July 16, 2018 Red orange, yellow green, blue violet, yellow orange… all singular colours in the Crayola box. None of them are quite one standard colour but all of them are surely a little bit of two. Acutean9le see this blending in themselves, in the society and communities around them and are highlighting this in […]
FROM WHERE I’M FROM

June 01, 2018 When we first encountered Shari Petti’s video short ‘Small Lime,’ we were immediately intrigued. The series captured 20-something-year-old local Trinis, discussing everything from local culture to pop culture to politics. They were funny. They were smart. And the girl had an eye! ‘Sorf Hair,’ Shari’s 2017 Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award […]
THE LUXURIOUS BEAUTY OF LOCAL

April 26, 2018 What does luxury mean in a place where it’s only ever meant something to a very limited few? — Now add ‘local’ into that equation. Kathryn Nurse’s Immortelle Beauty isn’t about the elite or the unattainable. It’s about marrying luxury and local in a Caribbean-based skin care brand inspired by the woman […]
Vavvoune. Born Again

NOVEMBER, 2021 For your next designer ‘It’ bag, passionately handcrafted with top grain, Italian leather and adorned with brass and gold plated hardware, look no further than Vavvoune. The brand was founded in 2015 by Valerie Blaise, a self-taught, Haitian-born, Brooklyn-based artisan and designer who happened upon her love for leather by chance. Each wearable […]
THE ART OF FILM

April 02, 2018 The homes of artists are always so inspiring. So much to look at: paintings on the walls, drawings stuck in corners, intriguing books, movies and conversations all around you. Now imagine being the child that lives here. Filmmaker Maya Cozier is the daughter of Trinidadian contemporary visual artist Christopher Cozierand painter Irénée […]
FULL BLOOM COFFEE BREAK

March 08, 2018 It was the space that grabbed me first: warm and lit up like a Christmas tree with the whole trendy illustrated black board menu in the background. Only enough seating for two. But it was still frequented by the barefoot yoga people from next door, Instagrammers who’d fallen in love with the […]
DESIGNING SPACE & EXPERIENCE

February 23, 2018 Have you noticed the little changes in the architecture in St. James? A few new gems here and there. Some subtle beautifications in Woodbrook. And the constant, albeit quiet, plea to stop tearing down our monuments. It’s against this backdrop that we first encountered a rising, young architect with a passion for […]