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 […]
March 11, 2019 Twas the week before Christmas when we paid a visit to up and coming Trinidadian artist Bianca Peake. Nestled in her indoor/outdoor studio, we switched on our recorders and began to capture Bianca’s stream of consciousness, as she explored coming of age as an artist, honing her craft and telling the stories […]
December 06, 2018 From the military to architecture to chocolate, it’s certainly been a unique and unpredictable journey for Cocobel creator Isabel Brash. This sensory designer and chocolatier invited us in to the Medulla Art Gallery on Fitt Street in Woodbrook, where her 2 year old daughter was being entertained by her all female team. […]
November 15, 2018 Once a vibrant space filled with makers and seamstresses and artists, the Maracas, St. Joseph birthplace of The Cloth is now a quiet space where founding designer Robert Young spends time reminiscing, reflecting and rejuvenating. The brand, that has always been a consistent staple of the Caribbean fashion landscape, has been on […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
