My Kite Dress
I have a Meiling Kite dress. It’s pretty perfect in purple with an ankara print lining.
I need to wear it out ASAP!
I have a Meiling Kite dress. It’s pretty perfect in purple with an ankara print lining.
I need to wear it out ASAP!
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Film is having a moment in Trinidad and Tobago. The CFAFF is another film festival on the local calendar. This year’s theme is “Afro-diasporic Linkages and the Caribbean Voyage”. “A movement, a discourse, a space, a channel for cultural transformation and expression; the African Diaspora is a collective consciousness. As we continue our journey into…
I really, really enjoyed the Afrofunk Fashion show The Warrior Walks Alone. It took place last Saturday at the Big Black Box on Murray Street. If you follow me on Instagram (@soyinification) you can tell, I took so many pictures. And I posted to the blog during the show and shared from shots in another…
8 of Trini Fashion Designer’s Christian Boucaud pieces were featured in Jidenna’s music video for Little Bit More. This isn’t the first time her pieces caught a celebrity’s attention. Michele Williams of Destiny’s Child has worn a blue jumpsuit from the designer. Watch the video in full below. Save
I was pleasantly surprised by T&T/US Designer, Charlene Sheppard-Duncan’s Spring/ Summer 2017 collection for Afropunkk. I had an awareness of the brand and it’s aesthetic, and didn’t expect to find stuff I’d want in my wardrobe. But what came down the runwalk was very, very wearable, and I now have plans to add a dress…
“There aren’t many indigenous typefaces from the English-speaking Caribbean; barely any in fact. There is a kind of vernacular around handwritten signs, one of which was created by our Managing Partner Marlon Darbeau’s work for Alice Yard; more recently with digitisation projects such as the Fete Signs project by the talented duo of Kriston Chen and our own…
The festival will launch with The Pearl Button, a film by Patricio Guzman. But I’m really excited by the local films that will be included on the schedule. Details on those films in an upcomimg post. Save