BRITISH Vogue fashion designer and winner of the Prince’s Trust award Gavin Douglas, has arrived in the island for Caribbean Fashionweek, as Pulse celebrates the 10th anniversary of the event.

Gavin joins a growing list of celebrities, entertainers, supermodels and fashion designers who have started to arrive in Jamaica for the Caribbean’s biggest fashion and lifestyle event Caribbean Fashionweek, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Also in the island for the event are Arena covergirl and Victoria’s Secret model Nell Robinson and German-based designer Yolander James –Handler, among others.

Other CFW celebrities scheduled to arrive by next week include Johnny Gill who will perform on the Saturday night of the event, i-D magazine editor Giannie Couji, baseball great Barry Bonds, well known Glamour covergirl Clarissa, Emmy Award winning celebrity make-up artist Eve Pearl, Pulse’s new Vogue covergirl Sedene Blake, i-D and LOVE covergirl Jeneil Williams and Vogue supermodel Jaunel McKenzie. Haitian pop star Katia Cadet, who performs on CFW’s Friday night will arrive late next week. A number of other entertainers and celebrities have been confirmed for CFW and will be announced shortly.

Gavin Douglas will conduct a workshop for designers from Jamaica and the wider Caribbean, immediately after the event. The workshop is intended to give the region’s designers a better perspective on the international marketplace and will also address key technical issues. Douglas is one of the truly outstanding and highly regarded young designers in Europe. In 2004 he was named Young Avant Grade designer by the London Fashion Forum and in 2006 won the Fashion Fringe award competition, which was adjudicated by an international panel of designers, buyers and media, including former Gucci and Yves St Laurent creative director Tom Ford.

Caribbean Fashionweek takes place June 15-21, with a series of receptions and other events leading up to the show’s first showing of fashion collections on Friday, June 18, which will benefit the Haiti Art and Fashion Project. Shows continue on Saturday, June 19 and Sunday, June 20. A business forum, the Caribbean Fashion Industry Association AGM, a buyer’s matchmaking meeting with designers, superstar concert performances, after parties, Opening Night, a designer Exhibition and Closing night festivities are some of the activities that make up the week of activities.