From the hardcore to the high end - fashion from the streets of Kingston, Jamaica.
The effortlessly cool Kenzo label released a short film last week for their Spring/Summer 2014 collection of interchangeable separates and dresses in sea patterns, fish motifs and environmental slogans saying “No Fish.” While most likely ignorant to that term widely used in Jamaican culture, the reference is suggestive of the designer’s concerns for over fishing… Read more »
Get in the know! Every week we bring you the Weekly Style, giving you the latest in fashion and style news from around the globe and from style savvy Jamaicans at home and abroad. This week on Weekly Style: – New York streetwear purveyors of Jamaican style, Rockers NYC, are having a pop up… Read more »
Kingstonstyle has always had its fair share of male viewers– what guy doesn’t love looking at beautiful Jamaican ladies sporting their best wares?– but we haven’t always been able to cater to their stylish needs. Needless to say, Jamaican men are some of the most stylish and creative in the world and we-say-that-with-no-hesitation. That’s why… Read more »
It’s no mystery why Instagram has become a huge part of our social media lifestyle (follow us at @kingstonstyle and we’ll hit you back). Afterall, we are a website that takes pride in showing the best in Jamaica’s street fashion through photography. As you could imagine we also have our own fascination with following Jamaica’s… Read more »
This week’s edition of “Dancin’ Digs” shovels its way through the latest Dancehall tracks and speculates their Summer anthem qualities. So sit back and enjoy the sounds and sights from the songs we sourced straight from the bloglines/Youtube pages we love and delivered to you for a little mid-week upliftment. As we always say, shake… Read more »
Last Friday was the debut of the Canopy Guild project, a collaborative group exhibition from NLS artist-in-residence Rodell Warner. Contributors Afifa Aza, Ai Yoshida, Ayana Riviere, Di-Andre C. Davis, Leasho Johnson and Storm Saulter utilized Warner’s digital patterns created from nature photographs to create pieces in their own medium. Thanks to these images courtesy of… Read more »
The Spring season is an extraordinary opportunity for growth and change. For which you shed your Winter baggage and you emerge like a caterpillar from its cocoon, into a magnificent butterfly. While here in the Caribbean we don’t exactly have a dramatic change in weather to compliment this metamorphosis– it goes from warm to warmer–… Read more »
Get in the know! Every week we bring you the Weekly Style, giving you the latest in fashion and style news from around the globe and from style savvy Jamaicans at home and abroad. This week on Weekly Style: – Photography focused, Big Magazine, interviews Director Theodoros Bafaloukos on his 35 year old classic,… Read more »
Every Friday in our column “Style Selec’tings” Kingstonstyle’s Fashion Editor, E. Hansen-McKnight, scours the web to give you the week’s best in clothing and accessories from web-savvy Jamaican stores and designers. Mother’s Day is peeking its head around the weekend corner and giving you that skeptical look: Have you gotten your mother a gift yet?… Read more »
This year’s Met Gala honouring mid-century couturier, Charles James, came to a close Monday night and Instagram was in a tizzy, eager to share images of celebrity styles that an army of photographers snapped as they promenaded up the red carpet. I do love looking at celebrity outfits on red carpets, as much as the… Read more »
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Get Wet! Preview the D’Havia Summer 2013 Collection
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Gold Accents at Dream Weekend in Negril