CFSTYLE.com – Top Ten moments in Caribbean Fashion 2009
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CFSTYLE.com would like to extend best wishes to all our fans, supporters and the style conscious. We wish you a productive 2010and hope you welcome the new year in style. We look back at 2009 and all the best moments in Caribbean Fashion with a guest post from Kathryn Nurse.
by Kathryn Nurse
Fashion is all about looking back on the past, and looking forward to the future to create the style of today. No better time is there to do that than at the end of a year, nay decade, to observe the high points of the past twelve months in Caribbean fashion. Much has changed in our small fashion landscape and we can only hope that in looking forward to the next year that the progress will continue.
10. Commentary
I fully believe that fashion must be put into context in order for it to be relevant. Part of that context requires criticism and commentary. In the years before the internet, Caribbean fashion commentary was limited to inches of newspaper articles, though while descriptive, were highly uncritical. Those days are far behind us. This year the number of Caribbean fashion blogs which popped up, which not only brought Caribbean fashion into the homes and, admit it, offices of many Island fashionistas, by way of pictures and video, they also brought with them a variety of opinion. Some of it may have been biased, some overly laudatory, but all of it was important, because more of a discerning eye was being applied to fashion at home and abroad. Blogs such as Islandista, put the fashion choices of celebrities with Caribbean heritage on display, while Trini Fashionista does an impressive daily roundup of the most interesting stories in the global fashion scene. Au Courant in the Caribbean, a blog as well as e-magazine, combines intelligent commentary about regional as well as international fashion. Not to mention, the work that goes into www.cfstyle.com to bring you as much up to the minute information about the latest in the industry. Even an attempt at street style blogging cropped up! We hope to see the attempts to make Caribbean fashion more relevant continue into 2010!
9. Sandhurst Tacama-Miggins
Though still relatively unknown in International modeling circles, Sandhurst’s name is very well recognized in his home island of Tobago. He had a whirlwind 2009, trying out and making the cast of Bravo’s modelling reality show “Make Me a Supermodel” where he blew away the competition week after week to take a second place title. He followed that with a special appearance at Trinidad & Tobago Fashion Week and rounded his year off nicely by co-hosting and co-ordinating his first major fashion show, the Carnival Costume stage presentation at the annual Carnival event produced by Antilia Events in New York City. Sandhurst hopes to pursue a career in showbusiness, specifically in hosting or acting, arenas in which he can showcase his hilarious and singular personality. We look forward to him doing huge things in the coming year as well. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting took place recently in Trinidad and Tobago. There was a fashion show for the spouses of the heads who attended the meeting. Here we find a review and some pictures of the event as it happened 
