Caribbean Fashionweek, the Caribbean's premier fashion and style event will be held this year at the National Indoor Sports Centre, Kingston, Jamaica, June 7-11. The event was informally launched in the United Kingdom during London Fashion Week last month, where some of the region's best fashion designers showed collections at the first ever International Fashion Showcase, organized by the British Council and the British fashion Council as part of London Fashion Week.


Pulse, CFW producers and presenters, used the opportunity to engage the international fashion community and to promote wide participation in the 2012 event which will incorporate a number of new features this year. The event has already been endorsed by several regional industry players, including Caribbean Export Development Agency, which included a CFW feature in the Look Book for the Caribbean Collections in London. Most of the designers who showed in London will also show collections at CFW.


European and African industry heavyweights such as Federico Poletti of Vogue Italia, David Pun Buying Director of Harvey Nichols, Toccara Jones winner of America's Next Top Model and star of TV One / Donald Trump's The Ultimate Merger, Stefan Seigal of Not Just a Label, Giorgia Catarini of Italian Glamour and Regina Jere-Malanda of New African Woman, have either confirmed their attendance at CFW in June, or expressed a keen interest in attending. Confirmed UK designers for CFW include emerging designer Jhaniel Smith and CFW fave and Vogue designer Gavin Douglas.

Caribbean Fashionweek takes another giant step forward in 2012, as Pulse redoubles its efforts to take Caribbean fashion to a place of enhanced respect, recognition and profit, at the centre of world fashion. This initiative continues to be executed in partnership with Caribbean stakeholders, including the Caribbean Export Development Agency, the Caribbean Fashion Industry Association, Jampro, the Jamaica Tourist Board, various related Governmental and non-Governmental agencies, as well as other regional stakeholders and industry professionals.