Familial tragedy nudged Seble Asfaw to turn a passion side-project into a full-time pursuit. “I lost my father, uncle, and nephew all within a three-month span,” the Ethiopian-American recalls of the emotional gut-punch that hit two years ago. “...
Little did Jamaican model Winston Lawrence know that his recent trip to Greece for fashion assignments would make him a viral TikTok star. En route to the southeastern European nation in May, the SAINT International stunner mused at high altitude...
“These are the best years of my life,” an ear-to-ear-smiling Nayana Williams declares. The drab, grey, cloudy weather Mother Nature is serving on a mid-week afternoon stands in vivid contrast to the beaming aura of this bottled spring-water head...
Globetrotting Jamaican hairstylist Jawara Wauchope is not one to skimp on dramatic tresses or opportunity. Two days before the black fashion-focused spectacle that was The Met Gala in New York City, the savvy creative delivered his own valentine to...
Cue the next scene in Rebecca Williams’ filmmaking journey. Invigorated by her working trip to the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland last summer, the budding Jamaican feature film director is inching ever closer to seeing her dream project, a...
The lofty, artistic ambitions of Jamaican fashion designer Rachel Scott’s Diotima Fall-Winter 2025 collection reveal, which she titled ‘Matriarch’, was appropriately venued last Monday in the skyscraper-dotted Financial District of downtown...
Jamie Melbourne’s life has, to even his own amazement, come full circle. From being a decades-long leading fashion industry make-up artist to launching the co-created men’s cosmetics brand Apostle, this Manhattan-by-way-of-Kingston beauty...
Five years in, Skylark Film Festival founder Gareth Cobran is confidently in expansion mode. With the curtains drawn last month on the Negril-based event’s successful 2024 iteration, the movie showcase ideator already has plans fermenting for next...
Stylishly sauntering into the big leagues of the international fashion industry, just three years after launching her label Diotima, Jamaican fashion designer Rachel Scott is having another major moment. A joyous Scott now finds herself a nominee...
Day four of New York Fashion Week’s fall 2024 collections saw Jamaican-American fashion designer Rachel Scott presenting her creative vision for next season’s womenswear must-haves at a gallery space in Chelsea, Manhattan. Scott’s three-year-old...
