Karib Nation Hosts 4th Annual Caribbean Style and Culture Fashion Awards in Maryland

In celebration of Caribbean Heritage Month, Karib Nation will be hosting the fourth annual Caribbean Style and Culture Fashion Awards and Showcase this Friday June 28 2013 beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Marriot Inn and Conference Center in Hyattsville, MD.

Twelve designers from the Caribbean will present their couture, including Patricia Coates from Guyana, Kimya Glascow from St. Vincent, Glenroy March from Jamaica, Andrew Harris from Barbados, Shaun Griffith Perez and Lu-Ann Skaggs for Trinidad and Tobago and Michel Chataigne from Haiti.

Celebrity make-up artist Maisie Dunbar will also be on hand to transform the models.

On the runway will be internationally acclaimed artistes and fashion industry leaders from the Caribbean with a special guest appearance from Miss Black USA, Selina Watkins.

As the host Karib Nation will be presenting awards of recognition for the contribution and development of the Caribbean fashion industry at this year’s show. Recipients of this year’s “Award Of Excellence” are designers Shaun – Griffiths Perez, Andrew Harris, Michel Chataigne, Sharon Cox-Cole, Kimya Glasgow and 5th Element. The annual show highlights the Caribbean region premier exhibits of fashion, art and music and epitomizes the regions vibrant colours, versatility and fabric which are influenced by the culture and diversity of the area.

 

Karib Nation was founded in 1992 in Maryland and is a non-profit organization. Its aim is to promote social and economic prosperity while encouraging the culture of the English, French, Spanish and Dutch-speaking Caribbean community in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

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