Sando fashion week

Fashion week will also seek out tailors/cutters, pattern makers, leather, craft and jewelry artisans for the building of a manufacturing space for local and Caribbean orders.

Since its inception the event has given exposure to various labels in its thrust to better grow this sector. This year organisers plan to continue this drive by blending the local output with regional and international fashion emerging brands.

The event also seeks to position its practitioners, “not only to increase their visibility but to promote the enormous economic potential within the sectors to create self-employment,” the SFFWTT said.

The SFFWTT production will be staged in three-parts with the first instalment to be launched next month while the other two will be revealed “throughout 2017”, according to the SFFWTT.

The production committee said the “format of Freedom Expressions 2017 will turn the spotlight on imagination, expression in fashion and design and freedom to articulate one’s specific yet unique fashion/design identify”.

Fashion week was created to “showcase, support, improve fashion and design market content to appeal to the steady increase of consumers who want to buy local creative goods.” The SFFWTT’s producers have launched a Design Show Creative Space Store Front, in San Fernando and has opened doors for retail business.

This venture continues to successfully function making designer pieces readily available and easily accessible to the public and a medium of reach to designers in attracting business and appealling to a wide range of consumers with varying fashion design appetites, the SFFWTT said.

On April 3 an even titled Mirror Image takes place at the Royal Hotel in San Fernando.

Designers and models will present trending styles in time for Easter, Spiritual Baptist Day, Mother’s Day, Emancipation and the graduation season.

Designers representing Boston, St Kitts/Nevis and Trinidad will unveil exquisite, colourful and affordable collections which will be available for purchase at the event and also at the Design Store at 139 Main Road Marabella.

For more info: sandofashionweek, Twitter and Instagram, 335- 4155 or 722-6059.