Run right out and pick up the January edition of Marie Claire – because islandista design star Anya Ayoung-Chee is featured in it! Hurrrray! She posted some page pix on her Facebook page today and the interview looks captivating. Our favourite bit? How Michael Kors started a wave of ‘Reggae Jesus’ Halloween costumes in...
Today, we salute Doreen Lawrence, the Jamaican-born mother of Stephen Lawrence, who was as she herself rightfully put it, not just a murder victim but “a bright, beautiful young man who any parent of whatever background would have been proud of.” After 18 years...
Oh what interesting political times we have seen in the Caribbean this last month! In Jamaica, cries of “power” are ringing out across the land as the People’s National Party, led by Portia Simpson-Miller has been swept back into office. Jamaica’s PM-for-a-day (ok, ok...
Islandistas, here is another one to add to our (limited) archives of things that get the oh-so-rare islandista stamp of approval. In three and some years of posting, we have only given two stamps of approval so you know that when we do, it...
A friend sidled by and mentioned “You see your girl is on the cover of Town and Country?” Run we did to the computer and indeed there she was – St. Lucia’s own Shala Monroque. The cover – eh. It did her no favours,...
