Top creatives to showcase work at O2N Style

Source: LoopTT

Some of the region's top creatives will come together on May 27 for the premiere of O2N Style,  an innovative, strategic, festival event produced by the Oxygen with Nicole (O2N) Foundation.

The event was unveiled on Tuesday at Dianne's Tea Shop on Long Circular Road, along with the launch of the non-governmental organisation (NGO), O2N Foundation.

Its first order of business is corralling NGOs, creatives, entrepreneurs and like-minded institutions to participate in O2N Style, fashioned within an artistic gallery – exhibition and showcase – of Caribbean style, inclusive of inventive products and imaginative services.

Oxygen with Nicole (O2N), the brainchild of Nicole Dyer-Griffith who is working closely with Caribbean fashion guru, Richard Young to present a forum designed for ingenious and indigenous critical thinking and expression on issues of empowerment, sustainability and entrepreneurship with women and youth, as its corollary.

Its first order of business is corralling NGOs, creatives, entrepreneurs and like-minded institutions to participate in O2N Style, fashioned within an artistic gallery – exhibition and showcase – of Caribbean style, inclusive of inventive products and imaginative services.

The festival-like event will see designers, creatives and artisans coming from Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and of course also features the best of Trinidad and Tobago. The O2N Gallery will feature twenty exhibitors, whilst the fashion event will highlight over fifteen local and regional design labels, including Claudia Pegus, THE CLOTH, Christian Boucaud, Charu Lochan Dass, Ecliff Elie, Shaun Griffith Perez, amongst others, fused with performances from Freetown Collective, Vaughnette Bigford, LaShaun Prescott, Marcia Miranda and others.

O2N Foundation, in collaboration with O2 Park, FashionTT, Kuros, Rituals Coffee House Trinidad and Tobago, Stephen Doobal, Security Analyst Services, NDG Communications, Sun Tixx presents O2N Style @O2 Park, under the creative direction of Richard Young. 

Tickets are available online at www.suntixx.com or at all NLCB/LOTTO outlets nationwide. For ticket bookings or further information contact, Jasimnder Kaur, at 321-8064.

Article by: Laura Dowrich-Phillips