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Stories by Omar Tomlinson - Contributor

Published:Sunday | July 20, 2025 | 12:10 AMOmar Tomlinson - Contributor

Call her shrewd if you like, but attorney-at-law Tanya Golaub does not squander a moment. Seated around the negotiating table in April to hammer out partnership terms for The Pinnacle, the St James-based luxury residential development, with...

Published:Sunday | April 20, 2025 | 12:09 AMOmar Tomlinson - Contributor

There’s no stopping the resounding success Jamaicans are enjoying in the world of fashion far beyond the 876. Whether starring in the new Valentino advertising campaign, having their design work the focus of Vogue editorials, or claiming wins at...

Published:Sunday | March 23, 2025 | 9:38 PMOmar Tomlinson - Contributor

A prescription of relatable warmth, administered with doses of direct honesty, are Dr Jodi Jackto-Tafari’s distinct calling cards. The family physician’s endearing personality has secured fierce loyalty among patients, so much so that patient...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 10:16 AMOmar Tomlinson - Contributor

Home is where the heart is for Theophilio founder and creative director Edvin Thompson. “Jamaica is always present in my work,” piped up the ebullient womens and menswear designer in a conversation with The Sunday Gleaner, hours after his latest –...

Published:Sunday | December 22, 2024 | 12:10 AMOmar Tomlinson - Contributor

Deftly curating personality images, one chic garment at a time, fashion editor and stylist Anatolli Smith has built a solid reputation as an oft-called-upon name in international fashion. The Jamaica-born, Big Apple resident is the creative eye...

Published:Sunday | December 15, 2024 | 10:09 AMOmar Tomlinson - Contributor

Don’t call it a comeback. Keisha Patterson was always here. Just selective with her performance appearances, and with good reason. It has been an emotionally taxing seven-year stretch for Patterson, a multihyphenate creative who has been a well-...

Published:Sunday | November 17, 2024 | 12:09 AMOmar Tomlinson - Contributor

Presenting his first collection at last weekend’s SAINT International-produced Touch of France fashion spectacular left designer Sylvister with a deep sense of pride. “Seeing my vision come to life on the runway, and surrounded by industry experts...

Published:Sunday | November 3, 2024 | 12:10 AMOmar Tomlinson - Contributor

Mother-daughter workdays are becoming regularly scheduled for SAINT International’s Martiniquan fashion model Aurelie Giraud and her seven-year-old daughter, Lou. The family photo shoot experience is now on its third shutter click, as Giraud is a...

Published:Sunday | November 3, 2024 | 1:14 AMOmar Tomlinson - Contributor

Rachel Scott candidly admits that she had zero expectations of an American Womenswear Designer of the Year win at last Monday night’s 2024 Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Awards in New York City. But fate and her industry peers were...

Published:Sunday | June 30, 2024 | 12:08 AMOmar Tomlinson - Contributor

Come August, emerging Jamaican filmmaker Rebecca ‘becx’ Williams is headed to Switzerland for the Locarno Film Festival where she will pitch her script for an island-set, horror-folklore story which she hopes to turn into a movie. “I will be...

Published:Sunday | May 12, 2024 | 12:07 AMOmar Tomlinson - Contributor

Time has served stylist and fashion editor Marika-Ella Ames well. More than a decade-plus in the global fashion space, the continent-hopping creative maintains the same burning passion that was lit within her when she started out as a curious but...

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