Designer lauds encounters with Italian fashion industry at CARIFESTA

Carol Fraser presenting one of her creations to Italian Fashion Designer Roberto Corbelli

Artist and craftswoman Carol Fraser believes that one of the more meaningful developments to come out of CARIFESTA X111 for the creative industries was the encounter between nine regional fashion designers and experts from the globally recognized Italian fashion industry, not least, the fashion workshops, fashion shows and business meetings that resulted from the encounter.

Fraser, along with Sonia Noel, were the two Guyanese fashion designers who met with the Italians through a US$45,000 CARICOM-Italy project that brought the regional fashion designers together with three Italian fashion industry experts with a view to forging “new avenues for cooperation and partnership and provide opportunities for the professional development of Caribbean fashion designers and manufacturers.

Fraser, who was selected by the CARICOM Secretariat to be part of the group that met with the Italian experts told Stabroek Business on her return from Barbados that she valued the one-on-one opportunity afforded her to interact with the Italians in order to enable a professional assessment of her work.