The Bacchanal of Business and Blogging

I am pretty much as straight-forward as you get, hence the content of my blog.

I write to document my own experiences as well as those of my colleagues in the Trinbagonian fashion industry. We definitely have our ups and downs since everything is new and and we are practically building it as we go. I personally believe in and need a sense of community in this dream-building business. I have made really great relationships and friendships with people I have only recently met, sharing our struggles and finding solutions in each other's perspectives. It's quite magical actually.

Before working with Mel Gabriel, Sparrow and Kathryn Nurse, I did not have such a great appreciation for local fashion designers as I do now. Before meeting Darcel de Vlugt I was shy to address the issue of money in fashion business. Before meeting Simone Sant Ghuran I had a much more limited scope for how far my beanstalk could grow. Before seeing Nina Alcantara's drive and success with "The Power of Beauty" I didn't trust that people found themselves a worthy investment in this industry.

My blog is where I come to connect with these wonderful people who are sowing seeds into my own passion. Fashion is not a "Me" thing as some of us like to feel. It is a "We" thing, and "we" not going nowhere if this bacchanal, bad-talking and backstabbing persists, So please shut up.

I blogged about designers producing work that resembled that of others. Everyone starts talking about how I am attacking designers. Sigh. I write about challenges I am having with my own re-design project and people are making assumptions about it being for a particular Mas band, and are going to the bandleaders, sharing the blogpost and asking about why I am hating. Sigh again.

I sincerely am not here to offend or "hate" on anyone. So since I have to say it verbatim: I do not hate Rhion Romany. I am actually quite a huge fan of his designs, and I have always been since "She Wolf". I do not have beef with Passion Carnival. I have spent some of my most edifying weeks there, learning invaluable lessons and meeting wonderful people. I have invested so much of myself into this movement that to have any disdain for it would be self scorn.

I genuinely appreciate the popularity of this blog. I never expected the amount of readership, but it is quite warming to know that so many of you seek interest in topics surrounding our industry. However, please do not grow your weeds and malevolence in our garden of ideas and growth.

Talking to a friend today a particular word popped up. He said, 

 "Some people are not as insightful as others".

Don't be one of those people.