Sheldon in a Bill Edwards design. - CONTRIBUTED
THIS YEAR'S Caribbean Fashionweek shows and Exhibition will be held at the National Indoor Sports Centre, Independence Park, Kingston.
Fashionweek runs from June 8 to 12, 2005.
Over the past four years, CFW events have been held at various locations in Kingston and St Andrew, usually in New Kingston. For 2005, the Hilton Kingston Hotel remains the official host hotel of CFW and opening night festivities and some other activities will still be held there. After parties will be held at Villa Ronai and Boone Hall Oasis in St. Andrew, as well as several other venues in the environs of New Kingston and Port Royal.
ADDITIONAL SPACE
According to Pulse, the change to the NISC will facilitate the type of production Pulse envisages for the event's fifth anniversary and Pulse's 25th. The venue offers additional space and facilities. The production of the show, Pulse projects, will match the talent of the designers on show.
"The Caribbean's best designers will be on show. The production will match that talent," read a release from the agency.
Designers coming for CFW include Jessica Ogden, Meiling, Nefertari, Claudia Pegus, Atelier Doré, Yardmanstyle, Heather Jones, Ras Urban Couture, Michael Williams, Gavin Douglas, Sharlene Burke, Sonia Noel, Rhaj Paul, Doreen Gittens, Cindy Mayers, Cargo, Pat Braithwaite, Rosca Mc Donald, Peter Elias, Ichia Tiyi, Glorai Plata, Renee Luke, Harold Davis, Stephanie Scott, Antoinette Taylor, Judith Rawlins, Peter Elias, Zero Gravity and Sonia Mack.
They will join their Jamaican counterparts, including Bill Edwards, Wright Style, Bridget Sandals, Loran V, Moncrieffe, The Mushroom, Kamit Revisted, Loren Tulloch, Sean Dixon, Cooyah, Uzuri and Biggy.
Among the more than 120 press personnel scheduled to fly in for the event are Fashion TV, Glamour, Vogue, Models.com, W, The Independent, She, Harpers & Queen, The Skyy network, Caribbean Travel & Life, Pride & Invincible Media.
Reports Pulse: ?The CFW schedule will be packed with world-class fashion presentations, celebrity after parties, press parties, an opening night gala and an exhibition which will be bigger and promises to be significantly enhanced this year.?
The public is invited to the exhibition, as well as the Smirnoff/Pulse 25th Anniversary Fashion Collections that will end Fashionweek on Sunday, June 12. The activities will begin with Opening night to be held at the Hilton Kingston Hotel on June 9; the shows and exhibition will run from June 10 to June 12; the first of two after parties will begin at Villa Ronai on Friday, June 10, with the second round slated for Saturday, June 11.
