When the lights are turned for the 5th Annual CARIBBEAN STYLE & CULTURE Awards & Fashion Showcase at the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center, University of Maryland Campus, in College Park, MD the Golden arrow head will be showcased by two dynamic Guyanese personalities.
Listed among the designers drawn from across the Caribbean is reigning designer of the year Olympia Sonaram as a featured designer as well as Barbados based designer men’s wear designer ANDREW HARRIS.
Shelly G the lone Guyanese female soca monarch to date and current radio personality is also scheduled to perform.
Caribbean Style & Culture commemorates the 9th Anniversary of CARIBBEAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH in July.
Caribbean Style & Culture is a showcase of Fashion, Music and Art, which will feature twelve (12) of the leading fashion designers from the Caribbean and the diaspora, The Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago and Colombia, SA.
Caribbean Style & Culture captures the flair, glamour, and lavish elegance of the Caribbean region, while spotlighting the dynamic and innovative Caribbean fashion industry and awarding the significant contributions the designers have made over the years. An addition this year will be the “TRAILBLAZER AWARD” signifying the outstanding achievement in Print, Video and Runway Modeling.
The Featured Designers are:::ERICA APPLEBY, ETA Luxe – (Jamaica/New York), SHAUN GRIFFITH-PEREZ, Shaun-Griffith-Perez Designs, (Trinidad & Tobago), EDWING D’ANGELO, (Columbia, SA/New York), KRISTIN FRAZER, Trefle Collection, (British Virgin Islands), APRYL BURROWS, Apryl Jasmine Studio – (Bahamas), CARMICHAEL BYFIELD, House of Byfield – (Jamaica/Netherlands), ANTHEA BULLARD, Hardour Collection, (Bahamas) , ANDREW HARRIS, The Andrew Harris Collection, (Guyana/Barbados, JEWEL SHANNON, Jewel Shannon Designs, Inc., (Barbados, New York), OLYMPIA ENIOLA SONARAM, (Guyana), LUANN SKAGGS, Luz-Way Designs, Trinidad & Tobago/Baltimore, Maryland, GLENROY MARCH, House of D’Marsh, (Jamaica/New York) THEODORE ELYETT, Nassau, Bahamas, SHARLEEN JARNEL LAGON, Jaeylu. St. Lucia, HELMER JOSEPH, Helmer, (Haiti/Montreal, Quebec, Canada.