something secret

Style Spirit Fashion Weekend is almost here! What am I talking about you ask?  Style Spirit  Fashion Weekend, the inaugural fashion event being hosted by  TrinidadLookbook  Editor-in-Chief Mel Gabriel is a weekend event meant to showcase local (to Trinidad and Tobago) designers and their creations.  With Fashion Week on an indefinite hiatus, (sad face) Trinidad's fashion elite has been screaming for a high caliber event to draw them in and help them showcase the emerging talent in the local industry.  Haute Caribe  set the stage for re-launching the hunger that Trinbagonians have for original fashion that speaks to the local aesthetic, and Style Spirit will be the premiere event to exhibit that desire and encourage more involvement in the industry.  Style Spirit will run from December 7-9th, 2012 at The Warehouse in Champs Fleur. Early Bird tickets are available for a limited time at  $250 per night or $600 for the weekend pass...

So, while I was only halfway looking (jk, I was raptly paying attention) an amazing thing happened. The fashion industry in Trinidad and Tobago experienced a beautifully vivid resurgence. The creativity and passion and desire that Trinbagonians have always had for flavour and colour and decadence, began to once again be funnelled into expressions of fashion. Today, Haute Caribe: The World of Trinidad and Tobago Fashion , a 12 minute mini-documentary about the evolution of fashion on my wonderful twin island state debuted online. With input from some of Trinidad's longstanding fashion heavyweights like Claudia Pegus , Meiling , Dianne Hunt and Robert Young as well as relative newcomers like Anya Ayoung Chee , Keegan Simon , Lori-Antoinette Williams and Mel Gabriel , the documentary explores the way that attitudes to fashion have waxed and waned in Trinbago over the last few decades. Haute Caribe  explores the ways in which fashion used to be tightly integrated...