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 […]
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 […]
April 25, 2019 “Art can be dangerous, even when decorous” (Bridget Quinn, 2017). There are two senses that strike the most when confronted with art: sight and touch. The former goes without saying, but ultimately we feel, though there is no physical convergence by art (and design)- and that is what makes it so very […]
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 […]
