Last Sunday I left for Trinidad and Tobago to review a pop-up shop hosted by Emma Forster Hiscock, Stephanie Rydle and Ain Earle. Their event, Racked TT is a fashion market, which brings together seasoned and emerging Trinidadian designers for the purpose of retail sales in a boutique-styled tea room.
Nestled in Rust Street, St Clair, The Verandah was home to the first ever Racked TT. Fashion events in the Caribbean are usually associated with terms such as entertainment and frivolous so I don’t get my hopes up too high. However, I was a pleasantly surprised when I walked up the staircase into the tea room and was greeted with noisy fashion conversations and women drooling over clothes like it was food in a famine. These women were obviously enjoying interacting and I wanted to find out what this ground-breaking difference was.
With years and years of North American and European fashion penetrating our Caribbean region, shopping local is
