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Bahamian petite model is a perfect fit in Vancouver alternative fashion show - Dec 4, 2014 - 8:19:37 AM
VANCOUVER, Canada -
25 year old Bahamian Lindsay Braynen, is now actively modeling and
dancing in Canada after she moved to Vancouver, B.C. nearly 5
years ago to attend the Emily Carr University of Art + Design to study
illustration.
Braynen who was born in Nassau, lived on Paradise Island, and is a Queen's College Comet of 2006. She goes by "Androsia Wilde"
in the Vancouver modeling and dance industry and says she chose the name to
reflect her ties to home. For those not familiar, "Androsia" is a bright
and colourful batik fabric The Bahamas is famous for...
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(VIDEO) Bahari Unveils its Fall Collection in Time for the Holidays - Dec 2, 2014 - 11:22:02 PM
Freeport, Grand Bahama Island - BAHARI is
back, and once again the popular fashion line that made its debut for Independence is turning heads. As promised, the Fall lineup goes beyond
the signature t-shirts which were an instant success amongst consumers.
Bold, vibrant colours and classic Bahamian symbols are still the
central theme, but this time they’re available as shirts, dresses,
rompers, and yes, even linen shirts.
“July was phenomenal. Our
t-shirts literally sold out almost immediately,” said Bahari’s CEO and
Creative Director-Men’s, Morgan Fernander. Whether online, or in
stores, local residents and even persons overseas fully supported
Bahari’s entrance onto the local fashion scene, with patrons proudly
wearing the definitive look at numerous Independence events throughout
the islands. Even after Independence, persons all over the country can
still be spotted wearing BAHARI...
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Celebrating the Legacy of Bahamian Women: December 21st - Nov 28, 2014 - 1:17:39 PM
Nassau,
Bahamas - Enjoy an evening of fashion, art and music on December 21st
under the Patronage of Mrs. Bernadette Christie, wife of the Prime
Minister of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas at Melia Hotel.
Leading the night's fashion component is Javotte Bethel, an avante garde fashion designer and owner of ‘Javotte’s House of Couture’. After a year of
planning feverishly, Javotte is ready to express her explosion of talent in a
Haute Couture Fashion Show which will honour select Bahamian legends and
matriarchs...
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Ray Vincente takes mens fashion forward - Nov 27, 2014 - 6:02:40 PM
The Ray Vincente line
made its first appearance in The Bahamas when designer Raymond Brown
partnered with the mens' modeling competition, Manhunt Bahamas
in its inaugural year in Grand Bahama Island, and in November the
designer made his return, but this time to Nassau to debut at Islands of
the World Fashion Showcase.
The collection, entitled Ray Vincente Unleashed!
focuses on removing boundaries of traditional menswear to explore the
freedom of dressing without boundaries. The color schemes feature the
Ray Vincente basics of black and white complimented with Caribbean
influenced colors of blue and green representative of the greenery and
the water found throughout the island. Fabrics were heavy on cotton and
denim. Key features were blazers with contrast sheer sleeves, fitted
jumpsuits, and hooded trench coats...
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Cuba's Art y Moda delivers art, fashion, dance and music to The Bahamas - Nov 14, 2014 - 4:23:06 AM
Nassau, Bahamas - A
highlight of the Islands of the World Fashion Showcase which took place
in Nassau last weekend was Cuba’s “Art and Fashion Project” (Arte y
Moda) which showed at Fort Charlotte.
Direct
from Havana and seen for only the 2nd time outside of Cuba, Islands of
the World Fashion Showcase presents “Arte y Moda” (“Art and Fashion
Project”) delivered a colourful feast of art, fashion, dance and music
fused together in an awe-inspiring spectacle. From Bahamas it was back
to Cuba for a showing at their National Museum of Fine Arts from
November 13th to 16th with much of the collection made from recycled
materials including metal.
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Fashion Designer Kazz Forbes shines at Islands of the World Fashion Showcase 2014 - Nov 12, 2014 - 3:41:46 PM
Nassau, Bahamas – Kazz Forbes and his
label, Saint George Fashion House (SGFH) delivered a highly praised fashion
runway presentation at Islands of the World Fashion Showcase (IWFS) as a Guest
Designer during the event’s finale on November 8th at Fort
Charlotte, Nassau, Bahamas.
The
two-day highly anticipated fashion extravaganza was held on November 7th
and 8th and featured fashion designers from Bermuda, Cuba, Jamaica,
Nigeria, Turks and Caicos, The Bahamas and the United States of America, that
presented an array of haute couture, prêt a porter, resort wear and swimwear
collections at the historical Fort Charlotte that was transformed into a
Fashion Pavilion...
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TCI fashion designer Kazz Forbes to showcase in Nassau, Bahamas - Nov 8, 2014 - 1:32:23 AM
Turks and Caicos Islands - Kazz Forbes of
Saint George Fashion House will showcase a haute couture collection at the sixth
installment of Islands of the World Fashion Showcase, as a guest designer November
8th, at Fort Charlotte, Nassau, Bahamas.
Highly
anticipated, Islands of the World Fashion Showcase 2014 will be held November 7th
and 8th and will feature fashion designers from Bermuda, Cuba,
Jamaica, Nigeria, Turks and Caicos, The Bahamas and the United States of
America presenting an array of haute couture, prêt a porter, resort wear and
swimwear collections at Fort Charlotte, that will be transformed into a Fashion
Pavilion set to rival major runways around the world.
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Haiti Fashion Week 2014 Wows Audiences - Nov 6, 2014 - 11:00:04 PM
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti - The 2014 Haiti Fashion Week
(HFW) held from October 31st through November 2nd wowed audiences with fashions and accessories from 40 designers
from Haiti, Mexico, Dominican Republic, St. Lucia, Guyana, Canada, and
other nations.
“Haiti Fashion Week has been a significant success over the last
three years,” said internationally acclaimed designers Maguy Durce,
President of HFW. “It has become a platform not only to share the
tremendous talent that
exists here locally with the world, but also a forum for collaboration
and partnership, as we saw this year with Mexico...”
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IWFS: Cuba’s “Art and Fashion Project” (Arte y Moda) - Nov. 8th - Oct 28, 2014 - 11:04:08 PM
Islands of the World
Fashion Showcase is pleased to present,
Cuba’s “Art and Fashion Project”
(Arte y Moda) coming to Nassau on Saturday,
November 8th at 7pm at Fort Charlotte.
Direct
from Havana and seen for only the 2nd time outside of Cuba, Islands of
the World Fashion Showcase presents “Arte y Moda” (“Art and Fashion
Project”) – where art, fashion, dance and music fuse together to become
an awe-inspiring spectacle.
Tickets are now available online or at the following locations...
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Caribbean Fashion Showcase held in Barcelona, Spain - Oct 25, 2014 - 2:17:02 PM
BARCELONA, Spain -
After weeks of preparation and organizing the first Dy Muñeca the
Caribbean Fashion Spot event was held on October 12th in Europe, in
Barcelona at Shoko. Led by Surinamese born Dymuñeca the show featured
designs by Beatriz Rodriguez from Puerto Rico, Sonia Noel from Guyana,
Daphnee Floreal from Haiti, and as special guest designer Eline Botman
from Europe.
Considered a great success, and at full capacity
with more than 170 people at the event, more people waited outside eager
to enter and enjoy the Caribbean fashion show...
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Bahamian model, Kendrick Kemp walks in World Mastercard Fashion Week Toronto - Oct 24, 2014 - 1:17:16 PM
TORONTO, Canada - Bahamian model and entrepreneur, Kendrick Kemp just
put in another walk down the international runway, and this time he was
in Ontario for the World Mastercard Fashion Week Toronto.
Kemp
walked for Canadian designer, Christopher Bates who has become
well-known for his white collars with a lipstick kiss, and James Bond
inspired attire. Bates, who lives between Milan and Toronto creates
custom suits, tuxedos, coats and dress shirts for men and his label is
carried by Holt Renfrew and other boutiques in Canada.
Kendrick
Kemp is the founder of Fashion For A Cause (FFAC), an annual event in
his home city of Nassau, Bahamas. The next Fashion For A Cause will take
place on March 29th, 2015...
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Manhunt Bahamas announces 2014 winners - Oct 19, 2014 - 10:51:09 PM
Nassau, Bahamas -
After two successful runs in Freeport, Grand Bahama, the third annual Manhunt Bahamas took place on Sunday, October 12th at SuperClub Breezes in Nassau under the theme
"Clash of the Titans."
The night opened with a musical pre-show by
young Bahamian talents, Tebby Burrows and Shaquille Farrington, before contestants were featured in casual wear, swim suit and formal wear.
Manhunt
International Bahamas selects a Bahamian male top model each year to
compete in Manhunt International, the longest running international
competition for male models, organised to promote new faces in the
fashion industry. Contestants are judged on catwalk and runway skills;
photogenic ability; physical attributes; and personality...
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Bahamian model, Shavon Nottage makes her international runway debut - Oct 10, 2014 - 11:52:06 AM
She's come a long way
in a very short time! Shavon Nottage of Grand Bahama Island is basking
in the afterglow of her international runway debut at Mercedes-Benz
Fashion Week S/S15 in New York. MBFW's exclusive and invitation only
events take place twice annually in
New York, Berlin and Istanbul and once a year in Australia and Miami,
and features style, beauty, supermodels and
celebrities.
Eighteen year old Shavon modeled for Koonhor and Park Choonmoo, on September 6th and 7th, 2014.
Shavon wrote the following on her facebook page after the hustle and bustle of fashion week was over...
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Islands of The World Fashion Showcase gears up for sixth installment - Oct 9, 2014 - 10:56:39 PM
The Bahamas is about to get a
fashion facelift with the latest installment of Islands of the World
Fashion Showcase (IWFS).
Set for
November 6-8 the award-winning show will feature some 15 designers from
the Bahamas, Bermuda, Cuba, the Turks and Caicos and the United States
of America.
“This
year’s event marks a turning point for Islands of the World Fashion
Showcase as it moves to the next step envisioned in its development with
the launch of a collection and label under a collaborative endeavour
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Bahamian male model gets recruited by US agency - Oct 8, 2014 - 11:30:17 AM
CHICAGO, Illinois -
Just a year after his runway debut, Caribbean-based model Kenneth Kerr
has signed with Blake Martin’s Distinct Model Management. Kerr, who is a
native of Freeport, Bahamas was recruited during the first round of
presentations, an honor for a model, comparable with being selected in
the first draft of a professional sports team.
“Kenneth is very
much in demand even after I explain that he is unavailable or already
booked,” says former model, mentor and manager Blake Martin. “Him being
based in The Bahamas is not an issue for some of the designers who saw
him at Chicago Men’s Fashion week. He is truly a Chicago favorite. I get
calls often. Many designers want to work with him.”
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Antti Asplund's Heterophobia makes North American debut - Oct 3, 2014 - 10:39:24 PM
Vancouver, CANADA -
Making his North American debut, Finnish designer, Antti Asplund put on
a colourful close to Vancouver Fashion Week's Spring Summer 2015
showcase. The Hetereophobia show was bright and colourful and at most
times quite outrageous with an array of accessories like household nylon
dusters, army gas masks, grenades, painted bags, shoes and fabrics. The
show was set against a video backdrop that featured Asplund and his
muse Hiu Lume, which was directed and filmed by a Finnish artist Andre
Pozusis, and edited by Katariina Nordfors.
“The video is based
on my text about equality and it keeps evolving for every show,” Asplund
told me. “In Berlin it included a part in German, in Finland it had
some lines in Finnish and for Vancouver I wrote French text.
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Caribbean Designers to Showcase at Dominicana Moda 2014 - Sep 30, 2014 - 5:01:05 PM
Bridgetown,
BARBADOS - The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export),
under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF) supports six (6) regional
designers to be part of Dominicana Moda 2014 (DM2014) in the Dominican
Republic.
The Agency is pleased to support Kimya Glasgow of St.
Vincent & the Grenadines, who specialises in eco-luxury Resort wear;
Heather Jones International of Trinidad & Tobago, which produces
hand-painted silk chiffon garments; Christian Boucaud Designs, also of
Trinidad & Tobago, which creates custom resort wear garments; Jean
Yves Marchand of Haiti, who specialises in ready to wear clothing and
Reve Jewelry and Accessories of Jamaica, who creates luxury, hand-made
jewlery...
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The Red Dress Soiree wows Nassau - Sep 26, 2014 - 5:45:55 PM
Nassau,
Bahamas – The Red Dress Soiree, a bi-annual charity benefit for The
Bahamas AIDS Foundation held their latest event on September 20th in the
ballroom of the British Colonial Hilton. Corporate Bahamas showed an
overwhelming support of the charity
event as all proceeds benefit the Bahamas AIDS Foundation’s work with
adolescents infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS.
Fourteen local fashion designers created red gowns exclusively for
the event and they were modeled by fourteen outstanding Bahamian
‘Leading Ladies’ in a fabulous runway show. This year's honourees were:
Nicolette Bethel, Inga Bowleg, Karen Carey, Eldise Clarke, Candia Dames,
Patrice Ellis, Joan Lady Foulkes, Dr. Tracy Roberts, Amanda Lindroth,
Lisa McCartney, Alexandra Maillis-Lynch, and Marisa Mason-Smith...
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Red Dress Soiree returns September 20th - Sep 18, 2014 - 12:58:34 AM
Bi-annual charity event benefits The Bahamas AIDS Foundation
Nassau,
Bahamas – The Red Dress Soiree reveals more than 15 exclusive packages
to be auctioned at the bi-annual charity runway show, cocktail reception
and silent auction to be held Saturday September 20, 2014 at 6:30pm in
the ballroom of the British Colonial Hilton.
Corporate Bahamas
has showed an overwhelming support of the charity event where all
proceeds benefit the Bahamas AIDS Foundation’s work with adolescents
infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS.
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Vancouver Fashion Week kicks off with 70 international designers on the roster - Sep 17, 2014 - 3:59:05 PM
CANADA
- Vancouver Fashion Week kicked off with a sparkling Opening Gala on
Monday, September 15th at the Queen Elizabeth Plaza. The Gala, hosted by
Vancouver’s own Mary Zilba was co presented with Anthony Lewis. Additional guest speakers will include Vancouver’s public speaker, traveler and activist, Patti De Sante.
The
gala show presented approximately 50 designers who each had one
signature piece walk the runway. Later in the evening a colourful full
runway show was presented by Olya Shishkina
a luxury woman’s wear label based in London, who believes in t
'positive energy, joy full living and fairytale femininity period...'
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