On Saturday June 20th New Media Entrepreneur and Editor-in-Chief of KB Collective Rashade St Patrick feted 30 guests in a private conversation at the Swiss Stores and F&B Restaurant downtown.
Month: June 2015
25 QUESTIONS | KOREY ROWE (Model)
Korey Rowe is a saint. Standing at 6 foot 2 inches he is positive and positively gorgeous. The Dwight Peters discovery is now a premier model at the Red NYC model agency. He is fit, super intelligent and undeniably enthralling.
THE VERY JOLLY BOYS
Living a dream and maintaining a steady state of joy and jolly is the ultimate life goal. Just ask the Jolly Boys.
BANANA UMAN AND GAL TAKES OVER THE WALLS OF THE ABBEY
He aims, he shoots, he scores! Leasho.com/paintings Johnson the revered ‘pop artist’ and graduate of the Edna Manley School of Visual Arts surfaces after the National Biennial with a traffic blocking graphic statement.
PART1: The rise of the fashion week
Its 1848, this is Paris and Charles Frederick Worth (The Father of Haute Couture) is doing something ground breaking. He is paying a shop girl to demonstrate how shawls should be worn. Her name was Marie Vernet and she was the world’s very first live model.
PILLOWMAN BY NILE SAULTER
Pillowam, a story of resilience, integrity and tenacity follows a father of two girls who lives in an a-typical housing situation in the hills of August Town. It depicts an early riser, a sun warrior and a true Jamaican hustler.
MEN’S CROP TOP – LET ME EXPLAIN
The truth about the crop top movement is that it has existed since the 1970s. The cropped shirt was originally created by men for men and was part of men’s fashion for years before women began wearing them. It started in the early 70s with weight lifters cutting off the bottom of their shirts to…
GIRL BOSSES | The rise of ‘The Chinity’ and better hair for all!
Tami, Terrie and Tessanne Chin opens new blow dry bar coined (wait for it)… BLOW BY BLOW!
C’EST LA VIE – BACCHANAL J’OUVERT 2015
It’s Saturday April 4th in beautiful Ocho Rios Jamaica and we’re hitting the road. Fresh air, sunshine and half of Kingston’s most energetic are in town. A twenty minute drive outside of Ocho Rios into Oracabessa (St Mary) to The James Bond Beach and voila; Smirnoff Bacchanal beach J’ouvert is well underway. Parked, banded, branded…
THE SKINNY ON SOUND SYSTEMS AND DANCEHALL CULTURE
In this post we will take you through a crash course of the volumizing nature of sound systems and the dancehall culture surrounding the epic setup. The sound system concept originated in the 1950s in Kingston, Jamaica. DJs would load up a truck with a generator, turntables, and huge speakers to set up street parties….
HOME FOR THE WEEKEND
For the hardest working kingstonians, international islandhoppers and resident ‘rockers’, Jamaica’s North East coasts of Ocho Rios and Portland will be home for the weekend.
LAURIE CHIN ESCAPES TO TRYALL
Every now and again a city belle just needs to escape, after all, queens and royals have needs too. For a cosmopolitan queen like Laurie Chin Miss Jamaica World 2014,