Coco Velvet International Fashion & Model Management opened its doors on October 01, 1997 at 54 Gallus Street Woodbrook. The company's corporate structure included Christopher Nathan, Chief Exec & Creative Director, Cristel Von Hueck, a Paris resident who moved with her husband to T&T; Cristel managed all CVI bookings. Wendy Fitzwilliam was the agency's principal model and legal advisor and of cou
rse soon after the launch of Coco Velvet she won Miss Universe; this brought a lot of attention to the agency along with Paul Robert Pryce's win on the Oprah Winfrey show. Alicia Hendrie looked after administrative affairs. Coco Velvet revolutionised the local commercial modeling industry back in the nineties as models rates shot up from $500.00 for an advertisement to over $10 000.00. Bookings in the first year of operation amounted to
$400 000.00
Early fashion productions include Nestle Svelty Fashion File, Trinidad & Tobago Fashion Model Awards, Trinidad & Tobago Top Model, Melange - BWIA Caribbean Fashion Canvas and Nescafe Women with Style. In 2020 Coco Velvet International was restructured, pivoting away from Fashion and Model Management and entering a whole new realm of business activity; that of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Consulting. We help firms to embed sustainability, responsibility and ethical strategies into their corporate culture and daily operations.
