The T&T Fash­ion Com­pa­ny (Fash­ionTT) has achieved a re­mark­able feat by lead­ing ten of the na­tion’s finest de­sign­ers on a trade mis­sion to New York City and the Unit­ed King­dom.

In line with its mis­sion to bol­ster the ex­port po­ten­tial of the coun­try’s lo­cal de­sign­ers, Fash­ionTT, un­der the aus­pices of the Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try, or­ches­trat­ed two trade mis­sions to these il­lus­tri­ous fash­ion cap­i­tals. The re­sound­ing suc­cess of these mis­sions re­flects the de­sign­ers’ ex­tra­or­di­nary tal­ent and cre­ativ­i­ty, leav­ing an un­for­get­table im­pres­sion in the high­ly com­pet­i­tive glob­al mar­kets.

The Fash­ion Trade Mis­sion com­menced in New York City from June 2 to 16, fol­lowed by an equal­ly im­pact­ful en­deav­our in the Unit­ed King­dom from Ju­ly, 12 to 15. The Unit­ed King­dom Trade Mis­sion was con­duct­ed in col­lab­o­ra­tion with ex­porTT Ltd, fa­cil­i­tat­ed through its Ex­port Boost­er Ini­tia­tive (EBI), en­sured that the de­sign­ers were im­pec­ca­bly pre­pared for these mo­men­tous op­por­tu­ni­ties.

Over the course of these mis­sions, the de­sign­ers en­gaged in more then 40 dis­cern­ing busi­ness-to-busi­ness meet­ings, fos­ter­ing mean­ing­ful con­nec­tions with es­teemed re­tail­ers, bou­tique own­ers, in­flu­en­tial on­line stores, trend­set­ting in­flu­encers, and renowned styl­ists. The es­tab­lish­ments that met with the de­sign­ers in­clude, but are not lim­it­ed to, Lib­er­ty, Net A Porter, Browns Fash­ion, The Place Lon­don, Cult Mia, Brook­lyn Cir­cus, Kifth, Dem Na­tion, SSNSE, and Nord­strom. The im­pact of these en­gage­ments has been sig­nif­i­cant as sev­er­al de­sign­ers are cur­rent­ly pur­su­ing promis­ing leads and or­ders that orig­i­nat­ed from these en­coun­ters.

The dis­tin­guished de­sign­ers cho­sen to par­take in this ini­tia­tive rep­re­sent the pin­na­cle of the Val­ue Chain In­vest­ment Pro­gramme (VCIP) and are rec­og­nized as the Glob­al Val­ue Chain de­sign­ers. This co­hort in­cludes promi­nent names such as Ecliff Elie, Meil­ing, The Cloth, J. An­gelique, The Hide­out Cloth­ing, Charu Lochan Dass, Heather Jones In­ter­na­tion­al, Gen­e­sis Swimwear, 1ndi­vid­ual Aes­thet­ic, and Ne­ha Ka­ri­na.

Lisa-Marie Daniel, Fash­ionTT’s Gen­er­al Man­ag­er ex­pressed deep ap­pre­ci­a­tion and pride for the de­sign­ers’ ex­cep­tion­al achieve­ments, stat­ing: “These suc­cess­ful fash­ion trade mis­sions mark a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone for our vi­brant fash­ion in­dus­try in Trinidad and To­ba­go. Our tal­ent­ed de­sign­ers have mag­nif­i­cent­ly show­cased their cre­ativ­i­ty and crafts­man­ship on the glob­al stage, leav­ing an in­deli­ble im­pres­sion in the fierce­ly com­pet­i­tive mar­kets of New York and the Unit­ed King­dom.

“Through Fash­ionTT’s un­wa­ver­ing com­mit­ment and the whole­heart­ed sup­port of the Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try, we have em­pow­ered our top-tier lo­cal de­sign­ers to forge mean­ing­ful con­nec­tions with pres­ti­gious re­tail­ers, in­flu­en­tial bou­tiques, and key buy­ers, open­ing doors for po­ten­tial col­lab­o­ra­tions and new or­ders.

“The pas­sion and ded­i­ca­tion of our de­sign­ers have tru­ly shone through­out the 40+ as­tute busi­ness-to-busi­ness meet­ings, fos­ter­ing promis­ing leads and abun­dant op­por­tu­ni­ties for our fash­ion com­mu­ni­ty to flour­ish. We ex­tend our heart­felt grat­i­tude to ex­porTT Ltd and the EX­IM­BANK for their in­valu­able con­tri­bu­tion in en­sur­ing our de­sign­ers were im­pec­ca­bly pre­pared to seize every mo­ment. This is just the be­gin­ning of a re­mark­able jour­ney, and to­geth­er, we will con­tin­ue to el­e­vate Trinidad and To­ba­go’s fash­ion ex­cel­lence to un­par­al­leled heights on the glob­al stage.”

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