CARNIVAL CATWALK: FROM CONCEPT TO REALITY

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Carnival meets fashion on the Carnival Catwalk runway, and the product, from concept to execution, is now available for the world to see. Creative Director Jerome Precilla, better known as 'It's Rome', shared how the project is putting T&T's creative sector on the world stage. Rynessa Cutting tells us more.

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00:00Carnival meets fashion on the Carnival Catwalk runway, a reality TV production of international

00:11standard, showcasing the best of TNT's creative sector.

00:15Tell us about that concept, how it came to be?

00:18Carnival Catwalk, it was a concept, I was thinking how do we get our country, our Caribbean

00:24people on the international stage?

00:26On those streaming platforms that we watch on Netflix and Amazon and we see people from

00:30all over the world, but our Caribbean people are not well represented on that stage and

00:37I felt, how do we do that?

00:38And the idea came to me of fusing fashion with our carnival to give that international

00:43flair while keeping our culture alive.

00:46Ten designers from around the world took part in the competition.

00:50For the creatives, this is a great opportunity.

00:53I can tell you guys, the grand prize is $100,000 and a trip, but not only a trip, but a feature

00:58at Milan Fashion Week, where you'll be featured on Harper's Bazaar and Vogue Italia, two huge

01:04international fashion magazines.

01:06So that not only gives you local flair and local clout and local recognition and regional

01:12recognition, but international recognition that could take a fashion designer, a creative's

01:17career to that next step.

01:19For one of the four local designers, the opportunity was monumental.

01:23What a great time to be alive, right?

01:25As a young designer, a young creative, you know, it gives hope.

01:30It goes to show that Trinidad is not only about music and sports.

01:36We have fashion, we have art that moves, we have art that fits, you know?

01:41With just under 200 local creatives working alongside international experts, Carnival

01:47Cart Walk is being touted as possibly the largest TV production from the Caribbean.

01:53We were literally filming for 30 days.

01:55That's one of the largest productions that you could have with 50 plus people on your

01:59crew.

02:00That was just the crew, and then they had some externals in terms of set design, decor,

02:05musicians, performers.

02:07Everybody in the Carnival space got to be a part of what we did on Carnival Cart Walk.

02:12It is a creative industry, and we're showing that it can be done not just within the time

02:17space of Carnival, but allowing people to appreciate it on a wider scale and allowing

02:22people from that Carnival space to work.

02:24This was filmed in September, October.

02:27You know, people that you wouldn't usually get work around that time.

02:31Miss Universe 1998 and the lead judge on Carnival Cart Walk, Wendy Fitzwilliam, believes the

02:36project is a major tourism boost for Trinidad and Tobago.

02:41I can wax warm about the importance of television in promotion.

02:48Trinidad and Tobago, traditionally, we do many, many things well, but promote ourselves

02:55as ourselves is not one of them.

03:00Carnival Cart Walk flips that entirely, and I hope that we continue to get the support

03:07for this production so that it does become a fixture in terms of content globally.

03:14Carnival Cart Walk is available for viewing on the Pavilion Plus platform.

03:19Renassa Cutting, TV6 News.

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