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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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The Windrush generation is in vogue again. Now a walkway on the Tilbury Bridge that they used on arrival in the UK, has been turned into an art installation to honour them.

Unbroken, the docu-film based on amputee Laron Williamson’s attempt to qualify for the Jamaican Paralympic team, won Best Documentary Short Film at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival.

To commemorate the Windrush generation, Hackney will unveil two sculptures next year.

London-born fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner’s Jamaican roots were on full-display during Highsnobiety’s ‘Not In Paris’ exhibit.

While Haitan-born trapper and merchant, Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable, is often called the “Founder of Chicago,” Jamaican Ephraim Martin, want to honour the memory of his fellow West Indian even fu

Visitors to California’s Luxe Art Institute will get to enjoy the work of Jamaican artist Cosmo Whyte from September 12th to November 7th 2020.

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