Tami Chyn & Wayne Marshall tie the knot

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Dancehall couple Tami Chyn and Wayne Marshall got married at the Mona Lodge at UWI in Jamaica last weekend.

The two sing-jays were dress to puss backfoot (yu neva know islandista can chat patwa so eenh? ;) for the special occasion.

Tami bucked the white flouffy dress trend with a gorgeous gold coloured silk gown (the Jamaica observer called it 'metallic butter' boh) by family friend and  designer Dene Chung, which had a burst of gold and peacock organza on the  strap.

Wayne was dapper in a suit by one of Jamaica's leading menswear designers, Carlton Brown.

Even the bridesmaids had lovely dresses (which can be so rare for bridesmaids). They had some hot magenta coloured dresses (which perfectly matched Tessanne's hair actually) with slight variations on the design - Terrie's had a halter neck strap while Tessanne's was strapless.



Of course, there was singing - Wayne got singer Suzanne Couch to serenade his bride with Lifeline, while Tami's sisters Tessanne Chin and Terrie Williamson sang Songbird by Ava Cassidy, as their toast to the couple.

Congrats from Islandista to the happy couple!

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Go dehhh! Sigail and Jeneil work London Fashion Week

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Just as we observed about the recent New York Fashion Week, the just-ended London Fashion Week was more colourful than in years past - though, unlike NYFW, London's colour was not as evenly spread out between shows.

There were still a lot of very snowy shows. However, there were also quite a few shows that really represented for the 'ethnic' models such as Nathan Jenden whose show was full of colour in both the dresses and the models, which brought some balance.

Which is all good news for islandista models and islandista fashion watchers.

Again, islandista models were spotted on the runways, though there was not as great a diversity as at NYFW.

But those that got work... got work and leading the fash pack for the Caribbean were Jamaican models Jeneil Williams (who was hardly seen at all during NYFW) and Sigail Currie.

Even though we spotted Sigail in more looks, we have to give the edge to Jeneil as we spotted her in more shows - six to Sigail's five. Plus, she opened the show for Paul Smith (as seen in the photo above) - a significant coup.

Check out some of their pics after the jump.

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Islandistas out and about - Jourdan, Selita and ... Foxy?

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  She might be big pregnant but that is not stopping our favourite islandista model Jourdan Dunn, from making the scene during the Spring/Summer 2010 fashion season.



 

First, she was made an appearance for Vogue's big event, Fashion's Night Out in London and then she made it over to New York City for Fashion Week there and hung out  on the front rows and backstage with friends like Sessilee Lopez.

And now she's popping up at her hometown's own, London Fashion Week, taking in the Top Shop Unique(above) and Issa shows (below).

 

And it looks like pregnancy agrees with Jourdan as she is looking mighty perky in the cleavage department nowadays, especially in that Issa maxi dress.

Other islandistas have been out and about recently.

Caymanian Selita Ebanks made an appearance at the New Yorkers for Children charity ball last night in a gorrrr-geous yellow J. Mendel gown.



And on the less than fab side, Trini-descended former jailbird and (former?) rapper Foxy Brown surfaced at the VH1 Hip Hop Honours last night. Looking ... like this.



What precisely is going on here? Nobody could have told her this was cute. Damn it, Foxy.

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Sugababes commess continues

Well ... that didn't take long.

Just a day after founding member Keisha Buchanan was kicked out of the Sugababes, the group was in the Santa Clarita desert outside of Los Angeles ... WITH new member Jade Ewen, shooting their next video About A Girl.

Jade ent even had a chance to recover from jet lag before she had to be hoofing it up in leather in the desert sun.



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Meanwhile, former Sugababe Keisha Buchanan tried to put on a brave face the other night in London, just hours after being kicked out of the girl group of which she was a founding member.

However, according to reports, she very publicly broke down in tears at a London Fashion Week party, sobbing that "it's too much" and that "everyone thinks she's a bitch" and had to be comforted by former Destiny's Child Michelle Williams and Oritse  Williams from British boy band JLS.

And of course, anti-Keisha rumours are already leaking out from 'sources close to the (new) Sugababes' , with someone telling the Daily Mail that Keisha offered them an 'Amelle or me' ultimatum and it backfired.

Hm... how convenient that these rumours are coming out when backlash is coming for ousting the only founding member left.

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Trend alert: dark lipstick

Didn't we predict it?

Just a few weeks back, we mused that we may soon see the return of early 90s trends like dark lipstick and now, one of the key makeup trends for the fall 2009 season is ... dark, vampy lipstick.

Celebs like Kelly Rowland and Amerie were seen sporting dark, wine coloured lipstick at New York Fashion Week last week and Vogue magazine's September 2009 issue highlights the trend in an article and it is also featured on some models in their editorials.

And now dark lipstick has the fashionista/islandista stamp of approval - Rihanna has rocked the look two days in a row.

So go and dig out your dark lipstick and if you don't have it, go out and buy it!

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You better work! Shena Moulton comes good at NYFW

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So New York Fashion Week has just ended and we're already on to London Fashion Week but we here at Islandista just wanted to big up island girl Shena Moulton who was one of the hardest working Caribbean models on the runways of New York City over the last week and some.

It seemed like Shena was popping up everywhere. Besides the Ports 1961 show which we highlighted in another post, she walked for some big names during NYFW, including Calvin Klein and Marc by Marc Jacobs.

Check out more of her work after the jump.

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Sugababes passa passa

Lawd. The Sugababes in a mess.

Ever since Amelle Berabah pulled her disappearing act week before, rumours and commess have been flying around the long-lasting British girl group.

First, there came word over the weekend that Amelle had quit the group because of her unhappiness after her rumoured row with Keisha Buchanan.

Then word came that Eurovision contestant Jade Ewen was set to join the girl group to replace Amelle.

However, founding member Keisha said that there was no truth to that rumour, telling News of the World:

"It’s not true she’s joining. She’s a friend of mine but no, I’m not a liar.  It’s completely false that’s the honest to God truth. One hundred per cent.”

 “There’s the three of us in this band and no one is joining.”


 But... it looks like the only one who didn't know what was going on was Keisha as she has been basically booted from the group which she was a founding member of (and writer of many of their hits).

Not only that, Jade is joining the Sugababes... but to replace Keisha!

Today, came that news plus word that she will be leaving the group and going solo. Not that she sounds too happy about it...

She posted a message on Twitter which read:

 



'Dear Friends I'm sad to say that I am no longer a part of the Sugababes.


'I've had a great time and have achieved more then I ever thought I would. Although it was not my choice to leave, it's time to enter a new chapter in my life.


'I have nothing but positive things to say about the girls and I wish them the best of luck.


'I would like to state that there were no arguments, bullying or anything of the sort that lead to this.


 



 


 

'Sometimes a break down in communication and lack of trust can result in many different things.


'I would also like to point out that I have always supported the girls and they have also supported me.


'Remember my drunk pictures out with Amelle, supporting her on her success with Tinchy Stryder… Oh the shame… But what a fun night we had.


'Now I'm going to take some time to focus on me. I've been in this band for 11 years and I have achieved so much.


'I have a great family and friends who are behind me 100% and at the age of 24, I'm now going out into this world on my own…


'Although i'm nervous… I'm still very excited on what lies ahead.


'I want to thank the Sugababes fans and my fans for all your support and all who have never judged me, but accepted me for who I am… The feisty, funny, professional, fearless, motor mouth… lol

'This is not the end… but the beginning!!!!


 



'Thank you always… Keisha xxx'

Damn. Dey ent had to do you so, though Keisha...

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Trend Alert: All black everything

Get y’all black tees up, all black everything




Black cards, black cars, all black everything.




How many times have we said ‘black is the new black’?




Well, get ready to hear it again and see it again because black is back in a big way, heavily influenced by the iconic lines in Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West’s smash hit ‘Run This Town’.




The all-black look is doing crazy rounds at New York Fashion Week with everyone from Ciara to the Simmons sisters to Rihanna herself rocking … what else… all-black everything.




There are many ways to wear all black and this particular black out look is more elegant gangster or edgy fashion stylist/editor than creepy goth.




Of course, the subtle sub-text underpinning all of this is Barack Obama’s presidency. After all, with a black man leading the most powerful nation in the world, it really is a time of ‘all black everything’.




Check out how many celebs have been wearing the all black look in recent days.


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Islandista on the rise: Speech Debelle

Because we love to read stories about islandistas doing well and even better yet, doing well against the odds... today we bring to you... Speech Debelle.

Who's she?

Well, just the under-underdog winner of one of the most prestigious awards in British music - the Mercury Prize.

Her story is the break-out, fairytale story of this year's prize, which went down last week.

With just 1500 copies of her album Speech Therapy sold thus far, the underground rapper burst into the mainstream when she won the Mercury, which is given for the best album in the United Kingdom.

Speech Debelle came up as Corynne Elliot (so much more West Indian sounding, isn't it?) in South London. Her back story is unfortunately, not that unusual among British Caribbean people. She was born to Jamaican parents. Her father left her mother when Corynne/Speech was 6 years old. He went on to be the village (or council?) ram, having eight more children with six women.

They don't get on, to say the least. In her song Daddy's Little Girl, she raps:


'Daddy, I think I love you cause I hate you so much that I must love you.'


She kicked up trouble at school, getting suspended 11 times and getting expelled at 15.

Her mother, a housing benefits officer trying to raise her on her own, was not amused.

On top of that, Speech/Corynne started using weed, which made her moody and depressed. She and her mother got into it all the time and she eventually moved out when she was 19.

She bounced from friends' places to hostels, was essentially homeless and committed petty crimes to keep clothed and fed. She admits now that she was too blasted hard-ears to return home to her mother, telling the Times:


“I didn’t want to. You don’t, if you feel like nobody really gives a f***. I wasn’t talking to my mum; I never talk to my dad. I’ve got my aunts and uncles doing their nuts. When you’re like that, you really don’t care about anyone. It’s hard to get out of that frame of mind.


Eventually, years and maturity brought her to her senses and when she was 23, she made back up with her mother and moved back in.

 Her outlet of  course, was music, which brings us back to the present day and her big win, which many say is the biggest surprise ever sprung even in the usually unpredictable Mercury Prize.

Speech is looking forward to her musical future. She's planning to start a record label with the £20, 000 first prize and she told the Daily Mail:

 


"There's a lot of music that sounds the same, all day on the radio and my album don't sound like their album and it's still won the Mercury Prize. Hopefully this will throw a wrench in the system and people will hear this album and realise they don't have to make music that sounds the same - they can make music that sounds good."


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Islandista designers at New York Fashion Week

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So besides all the islandista models that have been on the scene at New York Fashion Week, there are also a few islandista designers!

Former Jamaican top model Lois Samuels has turned her hand to designing and has brought out her first collection, The Vessel.

According to Samuels, her collection is inspired by both menswear and uniforms and the place they held in Jamaican society.

She told Fashion bombshell Adriana:

"I grew up in a society where having a uniform was so important. I think it gives calm to the chaos, and in a time like this you want to invest in something that’s multi-seasonal, comfortable, sexy, and not the fad–something that’s going to last."

You can definitely see the inspiration very directly in the looks -they are very structured and neat.


 



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We especially like the dresses she has done. You can see more photos from the show over at the Fashion Bomb.

Lois is not the only Jamaican designer at New York Fashion Week.

Another designer with yaad roots is Carly Cushnie, one half of the design duo Cushnie et Ochs -who would ever have guessed from that name?

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Cushnie (on the right with the blond 'fro) was born in the UK of Jamaican parents and met Michelle Ochs when both were at the uber-prestigious Parson's Design School.

The two had 'star' emblazoned on them even before they left school - Ochs won Parson's Designer of the Year award and Cushnie was the runner up and they had both appeared on the cover of Women's Wear Daily.

They'd interned everywhere from Donna Karan to Oscar de la Renta and Proenza Schouler so, despite their parents' urging them to start out by working for a more established label, Carly and Michelle decided to go out there and do the damn thing themselves.

And it has worked - even in this recession, they have been successful, with boutiques like Bergdorf Goodman snapping their clothes right up.

Their look is super body con - it is not a look for fluffy chicks! Lots of slashes , cold shoulders and sheer material. Check out a few of their looks below.


 



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Carly brought this same sensibility even when designing  for her step-sister (and former Jamaica Observer reporter) Leisha Chen-Young's wedding in Jamaica earlier this year, creating one-shouldered dresses for herslef and the other bridesmaids.


 



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Islandistas working the runways at New York Fashion Week

Islandistas, do you know what's in style this season?




ISLANDISTAS!




That's what.




Maybe it's just us, but we are definitely seeing changes in the colour of the catwalks of New York Fashion Week. As you would know we have been tracking this for some time and the last season (Fall/Winter 09) definitely looked more colourful than it had in ... ever?




And it seems the trend is continuing. We have been poring through style.com to get an idea of how models of colour are being represented and thus far, we are pleased to report that out of the 32 collections we've reviewed thus far, all but four designers have included models of colour.




The four offenders so far are Preen, William Rast, Lyn Devon and Helmut Lang - though Lang might get a bligh since he only used two models and one was the Asiatic looking Russian Ranya Mordanova.




Anyway, these more colourful catwalks have been a boon to Caribbean models and there are islandistas all over New York Fashion Week. Honestly, we  have never seen so many.




And what is interesting is that it is not just the more familiar faces like Arlenis Sosa and Jeneil Williams that we are seeing popping up.




Check out more pics and the info on their island connections after the jump.




There are newcomers like the  17 year old Martiniquan Selina Khan, who has walked for Charlotte Ronson at this NY Fashion Week.




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She came to modelling when her mother urged to try out for a model casting that Elite Model Management was holding on the island two years ago.




With her combination of Chinese features, dark complexion and standard Indian last name, our first guess was that Selina was a Trini or even a Guyanese. But turns out she hails from my favourite island in the French Caribbean, which also has a large Indian population. Her mother is Chinese and her father is Indian.




Another newcomer is 15 year old Jamaican Shena Moulton, who hails from the gritty Kingston ghetto of Waterhouse - the same community as gold medal winning islandista Shelly-ann Fraser.




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  She walked for Ports 1961. Big t'ings a gwan for Waterhouse - don't let anybody tell you not!




Other Jamaicans on the catwalk so far at NYFW SS10 are Sigail Currie and Sasha Gaye Hunt who have walked for Elie Tahari and L.A.M.B respectively, so far.




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Both hail from the Saint International roster of models, as does Shena. We tend hear a lot more about Pulse in the Caribbean fashion industry, obviously because they do CFW, but Saint is no slouch, either! They are the ones who are really getting the girls out there on the runways.




By the way, Sasha's name is killing us. For whatever reason, the international pubs keep doing her name as Sasha Gaye-Hunt, as if Gaye-Hunt is her last name. But knowing Jamaicans' overwhelming fondess for -Kaye and -Gaye names (Peta-Gaye, Donna-Kaye, Anna-Gaye etc), we'd be willing to bet our bottom dollar that her name is Sasha-Gaye. But whatever looks more sophisticated...




Another islandista model on the New York runways is Rose Cordero, from the Dominican Republic. She has walked for Jason Wu and Cynthia Rowley thus far. The Jason Wu look is included in the collage up top and the Cynthia Rowley look is below.   





  



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Trinidad's Michelene Auguste was also on the Fashion Week scene, modelling for Alabama Chanin. She signed with IMG last year, according to Trinidad Fashionista.


 


 

And of course, we can't leave out the top girls - Arlenis and Jeneil.  Arlenis has walked for Ruffian, which can be seen in the photo collage up top.


 




Jeneil has walked in four shows thus far - for Nicole Miller, Arise, Prabal Gurung and Ruffian.


 







Fantastic stuff, isn't it? And we haven't even gotten into the islandista designers who are showing at NYFW! Look out for that in the next post!


 

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Video of Rihanna's comeback performance!

Rihanna hit the stage with Jay-Z and Kanye West last night at Jay-Z's huge September 11th memorial concert at Madison Square Garden, to perform Run This Town.

What a lot of people don't seem to realise is that this is actually her first performance since the Chris Brown beating incident back in February.

It had been touted for over a month now that her comeback performance would be on the season debut of Jay Leno's new show , also with Jay and Kanye to perform 'Run This Town'... but that performance is set for Monday, September 14th.

So last night was actually her big comeback.

And ... not bad. We all know Rihanna is no vocal wonder but for the most part, she manages to sound about as good as she does on the album and more importantly... she looks the part!

 

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LAPD officers suspended for Rihanna photo leak

From the 'we knew it wasn't over' files...

Two Los Angeles Police Department officers have been suspended for leaking the shocking photo of Rihanna after her beating by Chris Brown.

We all remember the pic of Rihanna's battered, swollen, disfigured face.

Well, the LAPD was not at all happy that the pic was leaked and have been investigating it ever since.

And now, they seem to have narrowed in on two officers - ironically enough, both women. Tsk.

From the LA Times:

One of the officers, identified by sources as Rebecca M. Reyes, is a nine-year veteran of the department and was last assigned to the Wilshire Division. Her attorney told The Times that a search warrant in connection with the leak investigation had been served on her Los Angeles home.

 The other, Blanca Lopez, is a rookie officer with the Hollenbeck Division and was a housemate of Reyes, according to sources, who spoke on the condition that they not be named because it was an ongoing investigation.

Both have been “assigned to home” pending the outcome of the probe, according to the sources who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly about the investigation.

Sigh.

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Islandista Fashion Notes - Fashion Night Out & Alex Burke's saucy dress

Oh islandistas, so much is happening right now in the world where islandistaness (yeh, just made it up), and fashion intersect, that we can scarcely keep up!

New York Fashion Week is on like boil corn and you know we will be giving you the news from the runways and red carpets.

And of course... the parties. Vogue did it big like only they can last night when they hosted the global Fashion Night Out (FNO) - a night of retail therapy, model mingling and retail recovery in every city and country where Vogue is published.

Naturally, some of our fashionista islandistas made appearances at various FNOs - Rihanna and Estelle were spotted at events for the New York City FNO while supermodel preggy Jourdan Dunn was at the London FNO.




Oh Ri-Ri, what have you done? Fools in the club are still stumbling around wearing those Kanye West shutter shades all two years after the 'Stronger' music video - now you give them this?

Quilted/peaked/whatever the hell they use to get that effect A-morir 'Barracuda' shades that are just dripping with fierceness?





And you know only someone with your fashion gravitas can truly rock these with such fierceness and yet you know many others will try and fail. Why Ri-ri, why?

Dammit. I can see a trend coming and I am going to be seeing knock-offs of these for months to come.

Oh and the hooded dress is hot too.

Less dramatically, Estelle was hanging out with designer Rachel Roy in a painter print jacket that I actually quite like - you know we're not always down with Miss Estelle's fashion sense...




And over in London, Jourdan Dunn came out to the Burberry party at Top Shop (love that combination of high street and high brow that the British do so well!) to give fashion tips to the FNO patrons.  

 

 



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She's looking... we can't resist the pun... as round as an English pound! Especially in the face. It's strange, being pregnant has actually made her face look younger, as if she had baby fat ... which technically she does, huh?  

 



She told Style.com that she's been feeling well during her pregnancy - no morning sickness!  She has had "a bit of heartburn and some backpain" and cravings for bread but that's it. Lucky girl.

In non-FNO fashion notes, Alexandra Burke showed off what she's got a few evenings ago in a sau-cy sheer Pucci mini dress. Take a look for yourself.

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 Ok, that's not so bad - that's what you're thinking, right? Well check the back view.

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Yeah... we know. That's what we said too.

She also debuted a new weave that is shorted with heavy bangs. Do you Alex...

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