OMG Digital Magazine July 23rd, 2015 - Vol 4 Issue 168 | Page 47

yleweek
unch 2015
Styleweek 2015 will be
launched with a trunk
show at Bang Bang
Frederick Street on
Sunday 26 July from
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm. Top
Model T&T finalists
will showcase Bang
Bang’s trendiest new
arrivals for 2015; the
summer looks will be
coordinated by trainee
fashion stylists from
Coco Velvet’s fashion
workshop, admission
is free of charge to
the public. Styleweek
is produced by Coco
Velvet International
Fashion Management;
billed as the official
fashion week of the
city of Port-of-Spain
the inaugural edition
was held at the
Trinidad Country Club
in November 2014.
Twenty new, emerging
and
established
labels presented their
Christmas to Carnival
collections
to
an
appreciative audience
comprising of fashion
bloggers,
boutique
owners, buyers and
the press.

Styleweek 2015 will focus
on the business of fashion
retail in Trinidad & Tobago.
On August 27th the fashion
community will meet at
Queen’s Hall for Styleweek
Seminar on Fashion 3. Topics
include Stitch to Market
Exporting the Made-in-T&T
Fashion Brand facilitated
by ExporTT. Yosan Fletcher
managing
director
of
Compass Clothing Inc Ltd will
recount Bang Bang’s journey.
The Fashion Association
of Trinidad & Tobago will
make a presentation and
Coco Velvet will update
participants on its Port-ofSpain International Fashion
Centre Initiative. John Bilboa,
Director of Elite Latin & South
America and Crystal Noreiga,
Elite New York fashion model
will field questions from
aspiring models on what it
takes to work as a successful
fashion model in the fashion
capitals of the world.
Sharon
Imbert,
retired
Permanent Secretary – Office
of the Prime Minister, queen
& model maker Jacqui Koon
How and Richard Young,
Founder of Mannequins
Caribbean will be honoured
for their contribution to the
development of the fashion
and modeling industries in
Trinidad & Tobago. Fashion
designers Meiling, Heather
Jones and Claudia Pegus
received Styleweek Industry
Pioneer Awards in 2014.

PHOTOS COURTESYELITE MODEL MANAGEMENT NEW YORK