something secret

I've been meaning to get back to my Soundtrack Saturday polyvore posts for absolutely ages now, (seriously, it's been months...) so when I saw that tech giant HP, and local darling, designer, and winner of Project Runway Season 9, Anya Ayoung Chee were collaborating with Polyvore  in a contest to celebrate the debut of her Spring/Summer 2013 collection Carnival of Colour , I thought that now was as good a time as any to get back on the horse. For what it's worth, I'm loving Anya's new collection. True to her aesthetic, it's full of breezy relaxed pieces infused with strikingly bold prints. You can't have a Carnival of colour without the COLOUR can you! My personal favourite piece is the gorgeous floor length dress in the bottom left corner. The cut is fabulous and flattering and the print is stunning. My only complaint? There is no way I could wear that dress with my massive boobs and not offend someone! The busty gals love your designs too Any...

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...