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Caribbean creativity is taking centre stage this season, with standout moments throughout magnificence, style, and artwork. From Wayne Booth’s new vacation marketing campaign to Theophilio on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and a daring LeBlanc-Don Brodie collaboration, regional expertise continues to shine globally.

‘POINT OF’ BOOTH

It’s a brand-spanking new vacation magnificence marketing campaign for SAINT International prime mannequin Wayne Booth.

Having graced international make-up promoting campaigns for Fenty and Chanel beforehand, Booth is serving face as soon as extra within the just-dropped marketing campaign for the launch of Point Of View (POV) Beauty’s limited-edition kits.

Giving behind-the-scenes perception to Sunday Lifestyle, Booth shared: “I shot the campaign with photographer Jenn Collins in September in New York. It was a great day and I felt very confident. The team was super-easy to work with, and I enjoyed the teaser vids and images as well as the finished visuals when they came out on November 11.”

The on-set crew was rounded out by make-up artist Allie Smith, hairstylist Ledora Francis and stylist Anya Ziourova.

Dressed in a silver metallic tank prime, steel-hued belt and skirt and rocking a bob with bangs ‘do for the Yuletide promotion dubbed ‘The Holiday Shop Is Open’, the Jamaican style star counts herself a fan of the POV magnificence and skincare line and its founder, Mikayla Nogueira.

“I love the intense hydration, smoothing and even complexion I had. It is a fabulous skin prep system, and I love the glass skin finish,” she raved concerning the lotions and serums.

What’s her favorite product? “Definitely the ‘Drip It’ nourishing glow serum,” she hastened to declare. “It gives my skin a supple, soft look.”

The SAINT star, who’s primarily based in New York, hinted at extra magnificence consumer tasks on the best way. “I can’t wait for you guys to see them, and I can’t wait myself,” shared an excited Booth, who took day without work from modelling after welcoming her daughter Azuri two years in the past.

THEOPHILIO DRESSES EN VOGUE

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony acquired a contact of Jamaican-American dressmaker Edvin Thompson final weekend.

The En Vogue trio Terry Ellis, Maxine Jones and Cindy Herron – members of the Nineties rhythm and blues supergroup – rocked customized Theophilio ensembles stitched by Thompson for his or her onstage efficiency alongside inductees Cheryl ‘Salt’ James, Sandra ‘Pepa’ Denton and Deidra ‘Spinderella’ Roper. Notably, Denton is of Jamaican heritage.

En Vogue and Salt-N-Pepa sang their 1993 collab hit, Whatta Man, on the celebrity-stacked, Los Angeles-hosted occasion. The hip-hop and R&B flavoured observe peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 List some 32 years in the past.

“The opportunity [to dress them] came through En Vogue’s stylist, Bryon Javar,” we’re advised after monitoring down Thompson in The Big Apple for the deets. “He reached out a few weeks before the ceremony and said they wanted looks that honoured the group’s legacy and was timeless and unapologetically feminine. They also wanted to align with the night’s celebration of music and cultural icons.”

Sketching to dressing took two weeks. The designer stated whereas the artistic course of stayed true to the Theophilio aesthetic, in the end the curated outfits had been “about fusing that sense of legacy with modern elegance, bold silhouettes, clean lines and details that reflect both strength and grace”.

Himself a fan of each the music catalogue and image-making of En Vogue and awardees Salt-N-Pepa, Thompson opined to Sunday Lifestyle that “growing up, their visuals and soundtracks were a part of my own creative awakening. To see them celebrated on such a historic stage and have Theophilio be part of the moment was incredibly special”.

Up subsequent for Theophilio, based on its founder Thompson, are “upcoming collaborations that bridge fashion, culture, and community in new ways”.

CARIBBEAN STRONG

The Dominican designing duo of Yamil Arbaje and Angelo Beato – the artistic minds of the co-ed model LeBlanc Studios, which they established in 2014 – are showcasing their Fall 2025 menswear assortment, with an help from Jamaican-American photog Don Brodie.

“Don first shot one of our jackets in the Dominican Republic for DAZED magazine three years ago. I came across the photo later and messaged him to get it,” Arbaje advised Sunday Lifestyle final Wednesday from Gotham. “We started chatting on Instagram after that, and I kind of knew we’d end up working [together] at some point. The first time we met was at a coffee shop in Soho to talk and share ideas.”

Brodie harkens again to their preliminary assembly, remembering he was happy to find they had been each alumni of Parsons, The New School. “When we met for coffee, he was incredibly kind and even gifted me a beautiful billfold as a token of appreciation.”

Fast-forward to the current day, and Brodie lensed chosen items from LeBlanc’s newest assortment for the seventh quantity of his publication, Forgotten Lands, which celebrates Caribbean artwork, tradition and dialogue.

Models Giovanni Canela, Randy Foster, and Ernesto Rodriguez – all forged by the designers after happenstance encounters – are the topics for Brodie’s black-and-white portraiture.

Of their new seasonal assortment, Beato defined that the designs “explore neo-feudalism and how contemporary society is cyclically returning to structures of hierarchy, servitude and power disguised as progress”.

As to Brodie’s imaginative and prescient, by means of the collaboration with the Caribbean-centric model, “we were intent on working with individuals who represented LeBlanc’s aesthetic while representing the familiar faces found throughout Caribbean communities”.

The 43-year-old photog traces his Jamaican roots to his mom’s household in Lucea and his father’s lineage in Mandeville. Back dwelling this week, he has launched a Hurricane Melissa reduction support challenge, Prints for Jamaica – with 40 artists world wide that includes restricted version prints of images, illustration, portray and different types of 2D media – to boost funds for charities related to American Friends of Jamaica and Waves of Water.

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