Caribbean fashion in New York

Article by SHERRYLYN CLARKE

New York Fashion Week will have a Caribbean flavour when designers from more than eight island will showcase their brands and collection.

Caribbean New York Fashion Week (CNYFW) 2014 Fashion Event begins today and runs through Wednesday at THE OUT NYC, 510 West 42nd Street, NYC (between 10th & 11th Avenue).

CNYFW is produced by Face Of Fashion (FOF), a fashion modelling and fashion design management company located in New York City, under the direction of Carla Hazel.

This premier fashion event takes place during September New York Fashion Week 2014, targeting mainly Caribbean fashion designers and models. CNYFW fashion events provide the platform for all talents to showcase their inspirations in creative fashion designs for brand launching, as well as, the forum for fashion buyers and investors.

Caribbean New York Fashion Week 2014 fuels the business of fashion for Caribbean designers and models to take their skills and talent to the next level.

Participating Caribbean Islands include:

ANTIGUA & BARBUDA – Daniel Shem Henri; BARBADOS – Andrew Harris Jr; DOMINICA – Glenda Jones; GUYANA – Carol Fraser, Myrna Patterson, Patricia Jonas and Sonia Noel; HAITI – Prajje Jean-Baptiste; JAMAICA- Gillian Francis aka Minka; SAINT LUCIA – Lisa Barton-Volney; TRINIDAD & TOBAGO – Athaliah Samuel and THE BAHAMAS – Apryl Burrows.

Caribbean models will be from Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and The Bahamas.