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Fashion Fridays: Meet Simone Neilson of Jamaica’s MiSim

Words by Tami Tsansai— Wearable music? Yes, please! It all started with one crafty idea in high school for ‘Ms Sim,’ Simone Neilson– she made herself a pencil case, a classmate spotted it, and reque... Read More...

Beautiful Dominica: Creole Culture on the Nature Island [LargeUp TV]

See how Dominica is preserving its cultural heritage in this mini-doc.

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In The LargeUp Store: The Alpha Boys School Tee

Words by LargeUp Crew— The Alpha Boys' School is a school and group home serving at-risk boys in Kingston since 1890. It has a proud history of developing boys of upstanding character, and its renowned... Read More...

Fashion Fridays: Designing Dancehall Deejays

Words by Tami Tsansai— Our LargeUp crew couldn’t help noticing a new phenomenon in dancehall. It seems the business bug has bitten, with a growing number of Jamaican deejays taking charge of their career... Read More...

Fashion Fridays: Grind London

Grind London has just unveiled its first drop for Autumn/Winter 2013 - Jah Bless - featuring tees, hats, button down shirts and jackets. The collection draws heavily from dub and reggae, in a London traditi... Read More...

Fashion Fridays: Rihanna Lets Her Caribbean Colors Fly at Crop Over

Words by Mikaila Brown— This week Rihanna made headlines while attending Crop Over, Barbados's annual carnival festivities. At first the media attributed her silver, glitter leotard and on-all-fours wuk ... Read More...

Fashion Fridays: Attitude by Ashley Martin

Words by Mikaila Brown, Photo by Biggy Bigz— The annual Caribbean Fashion Week (CFW) in Jamaica has truly become a first-rate, international fashion showcase for Caribbean, African and Diasporic designer... Read More...

Fashion Fridays: Kingston Style at Caribbean Fashion Week 2013

Words by Erin Hansen, Photos by Biggy Bigz— From the hardcore to the high end, Kingston Style is definitely the Caribbean's best street-style blog and, if we're not mistaken, the first. KS photographer... Read More...

Dance Hall Style: Supreme’s Wackies Collection

Words by Jesse Serwer— Normally, we wait until the end of the week to catch you up on fashion runnings. But when a clothing label like Supreme teams with a record label like Wackie's, we have to interrup... Read More...

Wob Dwiyet: Ladies Creole Wear in Dominica

These formal fashions have stood the test of time.

Fashion Fridays: Are Vellies the Original Clarks?

Words by Mikaila Brown, Photos by Jason Eric Hardwick for Brother Vellies— "Everybody haffi ask weh mi get mi Clarks" In his 2010 hit song "Clarks," Vybz Kartel outlines the official outfit for an or... Read More...

Fashion Fridays: Tallawa Collection

Words by Mikaila Brown— "Blaze up di chalwa, likkle but me tallawa" These lyrics from Sizzla Kalonji not only impacted the reggae/dancehall scene in 2002, but also capitalized on a popular idiom tha... Read More...