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JAMAICAN CREATIVES IN TEENVOGUE ARTICLE

 

Abihail Myrie and Neko Kelly were featured in TeenVogue entertainment writer Sara Li’s 13 Best Vogue Challenge Posts article.

The article references the recent social media challenge inviting creatives (photographers, models, stylists, make-up artists, etc) to place the words “V-O-G-U-E” on their images as if they are an actual Vogue cover.

Myrie, daughter of Jamaican singer Buju Banton is a fashion model and shared images from a Desert Storm-titled editorial for the latest issue of the Collection MoDA’s MoDA Mag.

Neko Kelly is a burgeoning fashion stylist, known for his edgy art direction, as seen in the images he shared of some of his work.

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