Six designers from English-speaking Caribbean will be taking part in this year’s Dominicana Moda 2014 (DM2014) at the Hotel Embajador from 20-26 October 2014 in Santo Domingo.
The event is the leading fashion week in the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean. Caribbean Export is backing the participation of Kimya Glasgow of St. Vincent and the Grenadies who specializes in eco-luxury resort wear, Heather Jones International of Trinidad & Tobago, which produces hand-painted silk chiffon garments, Christian Boucaud Designs, also of Trinidad & Tobago, which creates custom resort wear garments, Jean Yves Marchand of Haiti, who specializes in ready-to-wear clothing and Reve Jewelry and Accessories of Jamaica, which creates luxury, hand-made jewelry.
The Caribbean Export backing is to help the designers penetrate new markets and gain greater exposure. In addition to participating in the runway shows and the exhibition hall, the designers will visit manufacturing units in Haiti this year. It is hoped that creating these business linkages between regional designers and manufacturing units will promote vertical integration of the Cariforum economies, according to Caribbean Export.
Caribbean Export says that the joint initiative with Dominicana Moda is aimed at providing a great opportunity for emerging and established fashion designers in the Caribbean to expose their vision at a regional and international stage, thus positioning the Caribbean as an international go-to location for fashion design.