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19/10/2025

Dear Coco Velvet followers,
We seek your support for our Chanique Marcelin, Tobago's delegate at the Miss World Trinidad & Tobago 2025 Pageant

Chanique was only fifteen years old when she was scouted by Christopher Nathan at the Scarborough Secondary School in 2023. He encouraged the teen to enroll in the Tobago Youth Creative Arts Workshop program to learn the fundamentals of the fashion industry as he indentified great potential for a successful modeling career. Following the workshop Chanique competed in Tobago Top Model 2024 and Top Model Caribbean 2025 where she copped one of the special awards - Top Model Caribbean Print 2025.

Photo Credits
Photo by Stefan Jadoo .photography
Fashion Design & Styling by Richard Noel .richardnoel

18/08/2025

Coco Velvet International is pleased to welcome Antigua & Barbuda fashion designer Garrett Javan founder and creative director to Styleweek Caribbean Fashion Collections designer schedule.

Having initiated the Caribbean Academy of Fashion & Design at the University of Trinidad & Tobago back in 2006, I envisaged fashion students enrolling from Eastern Caribbean states as we endeavor to establish an internationally recognized Caribbean Fashion Brand.

"The Prude" fashion collection of 18 looks (12 womenswear and 6 menswear) will debut at Styleweek Caribbean on Friday 5th September 2025 at the Lord Kitchener Auditorium NAPA Port-of-Spain

Tickets for Styleweek Caribbean Fashion Collections are on sale at NAPA Box Office and 212 Location stores nationwide:

* 20 Frederick Street Port-of-Spain
* The Falls at West Mall
* East Gates Mall Trincity
* C3CENTRE San Fernando

Visit our Facebook event page for more info:
Caribbean Resort Styleweek Port-of-Spain

14/11/2024

08/11/2024

19/10/2024

A colourful fruit, veggies and provision stall in Tobago, West Indies

We welcome all new followers to Coco Velvet International Earth Angels Foundation. Here we will galvanize support for CVI initiatives that help to reduce negative environmental impacts on our planet's ecosystem services. ECOSYSTEM SERVICES is a trans-disciplinary method and valuation tools used to measure and value natural capital resources.

Earth's ecosystems are classified as Provisional, Regulating, Supporting and Cultural. Provisional services describe the natural capital resources such as food in wild habitats and managed agro-ecosystems, fresh water from rivers, aquifers and lakes, herbal plants etc.

Regulating services include carbon sequestration and storage, air, soil and water purification, natural wastewater treatment, coastal protection and moderation of extreme natural hazards such as storm surges and hurricanes.

Supporting and Habitat Services provide living ecosystems for animal species, plants and trees, the foundation for genetic and biological diversity.

Many of Earth's systems have critical thresholds which can be impacted by climate change, severe biodiversity loss and global temperature extremes. Our planet has enjoyed a period of Holocene for 11 700 years (a safe and just place for humanity to live and thrive) however unprecedented GHG emissions and other impacts caused by unsustainable industrial activities have resulted in the breach of three of Earth's nine planetary boundaries in recent years.

For more conservation work follow Christopher Nathan on Facebook and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/Christopher-nathan-594082179

Photo by Rachel Lee Young

31/08/2024

Styleweek Caribbean Fashion Forum 2030
"A Sustainability Agenda for the Caribbean Fashion Brand"

Through consistent quality standards and artisanal craftsmanship Italian apparel producers have created global reputation for the Made-in-Italy label. French couturiers have done likewise for Haute Couture, Japanese and British fashion designers have positioned avant garde as a hallmark for U.K and Japanese design. What does the Caribbean design aesthetic look like? What will it take for the region's fashion designers to pe*****te markets in North America and Europe with Made-in-the-Caribbean fashion products?

I invite you to join Coco Velvet International Fashion Management at NAPA Port-of-Spain on Thursday 04, September 2025 as we assemble the major fashion industry stakeholders from the region to contemplate, explore and deepdive the future of the Caribbean Fashion Brand; examine the impending threats and opportunities facing apparel exporters under a Sustainability microscope as UNs 2030 SDG Agenda approaches.

Caribbean fashion industry pioneer, the late Kingsley Cooper will posthumously be awarded the Caribbean Fashion industry Icon Award 2025 for his tireless efforts to develop the region's fashion industry and lastly we shall open the floor for a public consultation on the proposed Port-of-Spain Fashion Centre Special Economic Zone. The POS SEZ is a proposal to position T&Ts capital as the region's hub for sustainable garment manufacturing and commercial fashion activities such as wholesaling, retailing, and all the other essential ancillary services required for the Caribbean's fashion industry to thrive.

Admission to Styleweek Caribbean Fashion Forum is free of charge however participants are required to book a seat. Send an email or WhatsApp text to Coco Velvet International with the following information:

Full Name
Occupation
Area of interest in the fashion industry
Email Address
Tel/WhatsApp Number

Email [email protected]
Tel/WhatsApp 868 620 2316

Photo Credits
Christopher Nathan - Creative Director
Coco Velvet Intl Fashion Management
Suit courtesy Ecliff Elie
Location: NAPA Port-of-Spain
Photo by David Ayres

27/08/2024

Port-of-Spain Fashion Centre Special Economic Zone SEZ

One of the highlights of Styleweek Caribbean Fashion Forum will be a panel discussion and public consultation on the proposed POS Fashion Centre SEZ. The proposal calls for a sustainable carnival costume and garment manufacturing district in East Port-of-Spain. It is no secret that the Linear Carnival Costume Manufacturing Industry (take-make-wear-dispose) is quite unsustainable and damaging to the environment.

Factories operating in the proposed East Port-of-Spain Sustainable Garment Manufacturing SEZ will be required to introduce and embed Sustainability and Circularity solutions to day-to-day business operations. These measures will include the elimination of waste, reduction in energy and 2ater consumption, treatment of wastewater, ensuring that effluents from manufacturing activities are not allowed to flow from factories into waterways.

Textiles recycling technology is not futuristic as there are several plants in operation in Sweden, Australia and the United Kingdom. The plants use patented chemical processes to disassemble, shred and transform discarded clothing (mostly natural fabrics like cotton and linen) back to their cellulosic state, the cellulose is then remanufactured into next generation fabric.

For more on the East Port-of-Spain Sustainable Garment Manufacturing SEZ follow the pages:Caribbean Resort Styleweek Port-of-Spain
Port-of-Spain International Fashion Centre Coco Velvet Int'l Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Consultantsts

To register for participation in Styleweek Caribbean Fashion Forum 2030
Port-of-Spain
Trinidad, West Indies
September 04, 2025

Email [email protected]
Tel/WhatsApp 868 620 2316