World Fashion Week: For Caribbean Designers?

Sooo, the buzz is growing on World Fashion Week 2010 - Fashion for Peace. To be held in NYC, it's sort of a 'Bazaar of International of Fashion." According to the website, "it's the global voice of Fashion, serving as an “Olympic Style” platform for the national fashion industries around the world."

Countries like Canada, France, Italy, South Africa, and Brazil are participating, along with a host of other nations. Each country will be given show space within their own International Fashion Pavilion, where designers from that nation can showcase their collections and pieces.

Of course, the prerequisite fashion folks, Magazine editors, websites, and buyers will be there perusing the sets, since the idea behind the World Fashion Week is to engender goodwill and exchange amongst the varying design communities, and also to sustain and build these international fashion industries.

I got to thinking: The Caribbean has nations with design communities, right? I know the fashion industries on many a regional island are still a major, major work in progress, but they're there, nonetheless. So why haven't none of the designers from, say, Jamaica, or St. Vincent, the Bahamas, or Trinidad & Tobago applied to show at World Fashion Week as yet?

Are they even aware that this opportunity exists? Lets hope they do, and that they're in the process of getting things together, at this very minute...

LMN Harris

NB Image courtesy World Fashion Week