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Saturday, May 31, 2025

Anya promises hot Carnival collection

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Since she won Project Run­way's ninth sea­son in 2011, Anya Ay­oung-Chee has been busy trav­el­ling the world and show­cas­ing her col­lec­tions, at var­i­ous fash­ion events. She used the US$100,000 she won on Project Run­way to be­gin her own line, Pi­lar.

To­day, Ay­oung-Chee will have her first Caribbean show­ing since win­ning Project Run­way, when she launch­es Car­ni­val of Colour at Adam Smith Square in Wood­brook.

Car­ni­val of Colour was show­cased in Lon­don, New York and Jo­han­nes­burg last year.

Ay­oung-Chee told the T&T Guardian the Car­ni­val-in­spired line will fea­ture a "com­bi­na­tion of silks, wo­ven, knits and she boast­ed that the col­lec­tion is all made in T&T, some­thing she's es­pe­cial­ly proud of.

"The ma­jor­i­ty of this col­lec­tion was made by fash­ion stu­dents at UTT," Ay­oung-Chee said.

"Caribbean fash­ion is be­com­ing so pop­u­lar across the globe and so the pur­pose of this show­ing is to high­light the cre­ative and in­no­v­a­tive way of fus­ing fash­ion and Car­ni­val, be­cause the sea­son is more than mu­sic and mas, it is about the way we ex­press our­selves through what we wear."

The for­mer Miss T&T/Uni­verse rep­re­sen­ta­tive said she chose to do the show­ing dur­ing the Car­ni­val sea­son be­cause it is prob­a­bly the one time of year when the en­tire world is watch­ing T&T and en­joy­ing what was cre­at­ed right here, so there is no bet­ter op­por­tu­ni­ty.

The show, which is free to the pub­lic, will be­gin at 8 pm and will fea­ture per­for­mances by pop­u­lar so­ca artistes. The de­signs from Acara Acraea, Ay­oung-Chee's sec­tion from Tribe's 2013 pre­sen­ta­tion But­ter­flies, Beasts and Bac­cha­nal will be on dis­play as well.

She thanked spon­sors of the event in­clud­ing bmo­bile, Ju­nior Sam­my, Shoe Fren­zy, Hair by Bal­ly, Spa Es­en­cia Hy­att Re­gency Trinidad and Rent-A-Light Light­ing Sys­tems.

Ay­oung-Chee al­so said that her char­i­ty all-in­clu­sive event, Anya The Fete, will take place on Feb­ru­ary 9 at her St Clair res­i­dence. Part pro­ceeds of the fete will go to her chil­dren's char­i­ty–Tall­man Foun­da­tion.

For in­for­ma­tion on that event, vis­it tall­man­foun­da­tion.org.


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