Caribbean Fashion Week, the Caribbean’s premier fashion and style event will celebrate its 12th year at the National Indoor Sports Centre, Kingston, Jamaica, June 7-11. Grammy award winning UK songstress Estelle, whose ‘American boy’ hit made her a global star, recently released her fourth studio album ‘All of me’ and is currently on a European tour, has been confirmed as one of the exciting acts set to perform at this year’s event which has attracted the likes of Kelly Rowland, Eve, Nia Long, Joe and many other stars in past years. Platinum recording artist Brian McKnight will also perform.
A plethora of exciting designers from across the Caribbean including Cedella Marley, daughter of reggae legend Bob Marley, who has been busy designing a collection of Jamaica Olympic team gear for Puma, will debut her new swimwear collection High Tide, whilst the talented designer Tigerlily, whose host of celebrity fans include Keira Knightly, will showcase their collections to an audience filled with Caribbean fashion industry who’s who and aspiring stylistas.
Other highlights of Caribbean Fashion Week 2012 include supermodel and Karl Lagerfeld muse Jeneil Williams and face of Ralph Lauren Oraine Barrett who recently made a cameo appearance with Rihanna in her ‘Man Down’ video, returning to grace the catwalk.
Caribbean Fashion Week takes another giant step forward in 2012, as Pulse, who produce Caribbean Fashion Week redoubles its efforts to take Caribbean fashion to a place of enhanced respect, recognition and profit, at the centre of world fashion. CFW is the largest, most far reaching and strategically important fashion event in the region. Pulse has developed an event of a high international standard to showcase the best of the Caribbean’s designers, as well as other world regarded stylists from various parts of the globe.
The challenge remains to effectively assist our Caribbean designers in their efforts to build their businesses, so that they can take full advantage of the marketing that the event creates, utilize the experience gained, the international press generated, the buyers’ marketplace provided and the Business Forums presented: in short the full CFW experience. Fashionweek continues this process in 2012.
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