Oc­to­ber 21-23, is sched­uled for the FAB Pas­sion Fash­ion Week in New Eng­land, USA. This year marks the third edi­tion of this fash­ion week pro­duced by Trinidad-born New Eng­land res­i­dent, Richie Richard­son. This pre­mier fash­ion week is ded­i­cat­ed to three days of in­ter­na­tion­al, lo­cal and re­gion­al fash­ion.

Designers Omzad Khan & Nigel Eastman

The mis­sion is to cu­rate de­sign­er brands that pro­mote eco-friend­ly co­op­er­a­tion, eth­i­cal in­ter­face, wear­able art and pro­claim the Caribbean Aes­thet­ic as a glob­al style trade­mark.

Designer Elizabeth Francis

FPFW cre­ates unique op­por­tu­ni­ties

FAB Pas­sion Fash­ion Week (FPFW) cre­ates unique op­por­tu­ni­ties for cross-cul­tur­al ex­change

and new re­la­tion­ships be­tween fash­ion pro­fes­sion­als at the lo­cal, re­gion­al, and in­ter­na­tion­al lev­el. The Ho­n­ourable An­dre La Veau, Con­sul Gen­er­al of Trinidad and To­ba­go in New York en­dors­es the ini­tia­tive and has fa­cil­i­tat­ed net­work­ing link­ages to for­ti­fy the in­tegri­ty of the event.

Designer Omzad Khan & Nigel Eastman, Zadd & Eastman

Richie Richard­son is a fash­ion/graph­ic de­sign­er who is push­ing the agen­da of eth­nic, con­tem­po­rary fash­ion which pro­motes cross pol­li­na­tion of con­tem­po­rary and roots gen­res in fash­ion, quite syn­ony­mous to the world­beat mu­sic in­flu­ence tak­ing the world by storm. He has teamed up with Richard Young, the Caribbean aes­thet­ic afi­ciona­do and re­gion­al fash­ion gu­ru, serv­ing as cre­ative di­rec­tor and Jer­ry Jor­dan, the pro­duc­er of Brook­lyn Fash­ion Week, as cast­ing di­rec­tor, to cre­ate this ad­di­tion to the New Eng­land tourism lure.

Designer Elizabeth Francis, Christique Clothing

CAFD stu­dent of the Year show­cas­ing

The de­sign­ers from Trinidad slat­ed to present are The Cloth, Zadd and East­man, ID In­dige­nous De­signs by Do­minique La Roche, Eliz­a­beth Fran­cis’ Chris­tique Cloth­ing, Kavir Mootoo’s re­cy­cled wear­able art and this year’s stu­dent of the year at the Caribbean Acad­e­my of Fash­ion De­sign (CAFD), at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Cour­nelius Hec­tor.

Richard Young who would be show­cas­ing the 6 brands from Trinidad, this year, speaks glow­ing­ly of the event. In 2018 and 2019, “we showed col­lec­tions from Caribbean de­sign­ers res­i­dent in New York and New Eng­land as well as ex­ot­ic brands from the African con­ti­nent as well as from oth­er Caribbean is­lands.”

FAB Pas­sion Fash­ion Week al­so in­cor­po­rates in­dige­nous per­for­mances from Na­tive Amer­i­can or­ga­ni­za­tion River­Cul­ture and an up­cy­cle show­case as part of a cel­e­bra­tion of al­ter­na­tive, sus­tain­able fash­ion prac­tice.

Designer Dominique La Roche, ID Indigenous Designs

Richard Young who would be show­cas­ing the 6 brands from Trinidad, this year, speaks glow­ing­ly of the event. In 2018 and 2019, “we showed col­lec­tions from Caribbean de­sign­ers res­i­dent in New York and New Eng­land as well as ex­ot­ic brands from the African con­ti­nent as well as from oth­er Caribbean is­lands.”

FAB Pas­sion Fash­ion Week al­so in­cor­po­rates in­dige­nous per­for­mances from Na­tive Amer­i­can or­ga­ni­za­tion River­Cul­ture and an up­cy­cle show­case as part of a cel­e­bra­tion of al­ter­na­tive, sus­tain­able fash­ion prac­tice.