Pulse In­vest­ments Ltd, or­gan­is­ers of Caribbean Fash­ion­week (CFW) launched its tenth an­niver­sary in March at the Pulse Cen­tre in Kingston, Ja­maica. Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, diplo­mats, spon­sors, busi­ness ex­ec­u­tives, fash­ion de­sign­ers, mod­els and press were in at­ten­dance at the cock­tail re­cep­tion.

Ad­dress­ing the launch, CEO Kings­ley Coop­er high­light­ed the de­vel­op­ment and suc­cess of Caribbean Fash­ion­week over the years, as well as its func­tion as a ma­jor cat­a­lyst for growth in the re­gion­al fash­ion in­dus­try. Coop­er al­so used the op­por­tu­ni­ty at the fo­rum to an­nounce the com­pa­ny's newest cre­ative in­dus­try ini­tia­tive–The Haiti Art and Fash­ion Project.

From left, fash­ion de­sign­er Juli­ette Dyke, Pulse GM Ro­mae Gor­don and Janel Jol­ly, who will make her de­but at CFW 2010, pose for the cam­eras at last month's Caribbean Fash­ion­week (CFW) launch.

The Haiti Art and Fash­ion Project, spear­head­ed by the Pulse Foun­da­tion with the sup­port of Caribbean Fash­ion­week (CFW), The Caribbean Fash­ion In­dus­try As­so­ci­a­tion (Cafia) and par­tic­i­pat­ing art, mu­sic and fash­ion in­dus­try en­ti­ties in the re­gion, will sup­port the re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion and fur­ther de­vel­op­ment of Haiti's cre­ative arts, fash­ion and busi­ness in­dus­tries.

Said Coop­er: "Haiti's art, fash­ion, craft, mu­sic and oth­er cre­ative prod­ucts are among the best in the world and are main­stays of the in­come of many every­day Haitians.

With the oc­cur­rence of the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake, Haiti's cre­ative busi­ness, like so much else in that Caribbean na­tion, has been bad­ly hit. The Haiti Art & Fash­ion Project is there­fore in­tend­ed to give these cre­ative busi­ness­es–large and small, sup­port in their re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion and re­con­struc­tion, as well as their fur­ther de­vel­op­ment."