50 Big Ones!
From a 12-month melange of events, interviews, life milestones, and press & runway sightings – SO extracts the most fashionable moments of 2016.
JANUARY
1 Actress Alfre Woodard vacations at Round Hill Hotel & Villas.
2 Choreographer/deejay Fatima, model/actress Grace Jones and actress Queen Latifah party at Island Outpost founder Chris Blackwell’s New Year’s Eve party at GoldenEye.
3 Nightlife impresario David Annakie’s New Year’s Eve Party at Fiction Fantasy II featured models Tyson Beckford and Karrueche Tran as special guests.
4 Husband-and-wife actors Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta-Jones visit academic & artist Dr David Boxer for a local immersion into art.
5 British GQ Style Fashion Director Elgar Johnson arrives in Jamaica for a GQ Style shoot focused on Kingston.
FEBRUARY
6 Saint International’s Naki Depass makes her model debut on the Burberry Fall/Winter 2016 runway in London.
7 NYC-based shoe designer Vanessa Noel attends the 2016 Sugarcane Ball at Round Hill Hotel & Villas.
8 International recording artiste Pia Mia headlined the 2016 Youth View Awards at the National Indoor Sports Centre.
MARCH
9 BRAVO TV’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Cynthia Bailey (left) wore Kurt Campbell as she is lensed by photographer Dwayne Watkins in the Big Apple.
10 Philanthropist & socialite Ann-Marie Vaz turns 50.
11 Kadian Nicely won Saint International/Campari’s Avant Garde Designer of the Year prize at the Courtleigh Auditorium.
12 Multimedia artist and illustrator Claudia Beyer enters The Rock’s social scene via The Fashion Face of the Caribbean & the Avant Garde Designer of the Year event. Months later at the Fashion Directory, in October, her electic personal style still stood out.
APRIL
13 Page 2 celebrates its 10th anniversary at a Spanish Court Hotel gala.
14 The CHOW Society-organised Dîner En Blanc returns for it second staging at the Usain Bolt Regupol Track.
15 Lévé — The Luxury Lifestyle Event at the Tobago Jazz Festival unveiled a collection by designer Claudia Pegus, which had the Trinidad & Tobago PM Dr Keith Rowley and his attorney-at-law wife Sharon in attendance.
MAY
16 Saint International model Tami Williams walks the Chanel Resort Sping 2017 runway in Havana, Cuba.
17 Revolve “5×5 Swim Project” launches at Round Hill Hotel & Villas.
18 US Marie Claire’s Global Beauty Diaries feature includes Flowerchild 1999 designer Kaysian Bourke.
19 Jewellers Dilip and Veena Chatani meet American actress Kerry Washington at a Movado event in Basel, Switzerland.
20 London-based communications consultant and publicist Jessica Huie weds businessman Kwame Springer at Hopewell Baptist Church in Hopewell, Hanover.
21 The Marleys and the parish of Portland are featured in the inaugural summer issue of American GQ Style.
JUNE
22 B3 Parenting Magazine’s Island Child Style fashion show showcased kiddies’ collections at Devon House.
23 American singer-songwriter Mario and reality star Erica Mena – in Kayture Stylings – fly in for Fiction Fantasy’s Gatsby The Sequel anniversary celebrations.
24 Marley scion Selah makes her model debut in Calvin Klein’s Fall 2016 campaign.
25 Saint International model Tami Williams is added to the influential models.com ‘Top 50 Models’ list.
JULY
26 Dressed in the Winslet from Monique Lhuillier’s Fall 2016 collection, blogger and brand spokesperson Kaci Fennell becomes Mrs Shirley at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in St Ann’s Bay.
27 Milan-based streetstyle blogger Tamu McPherson wore a Lurex knit dress from Gucci’s Spring/Summer 2016 collection for her 40th birthday celebrations in Portie.
28 University of Westminster students & sisters Gina Hargitay (left) and Jovi Jaja partake in a joint Cocktails With… interview.
AUGUST
29 Sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s mermaid hair, and the Jamaica team uniforms by Puma garner global attention at the Rio Olympics.
30 The Good Hope Estate in Trelawny is the historic venue for the Wallace-Packe-Drury-Lowe nuptials.
31 As she counted down the weeks leading to her 60th birthday, on September 1 – philanthropist/restaurateur Theresa Roberts hosts the best in ballet, opera, and dancehall on weekends at her The Tryall Club villa Hanover Grange.
32 Champers house Moët & Chandon hosts a tasting & sales event for a batch of Dom Pérignon P2 Plenitude at @twentythree.
SEPTEMBER
33 Kenzo’s women’s fragrance, Kenzo World’s television ad is released with a soundtrack of Mutant Brain by Ape Drums & Sam Spiegel featuring Agent Sasco.
34 Saint International model Brandon Bailey appears in a fall/winter 2016 ad for Ralph Lauren.
35 Bogota-based menswear Caffery Van Horne returns to his roots with a hometown visit to Jamaica.
36 Saint International model Kai Newman appears in an United Colors of Benetton ad for its Colors fragrance.
37 Man Booker Prize winner, author Marlon James interviews Hollywood actor Brad Pitt for the Men’s Style Issue of T magazine.
38 Fashion Issues Boutique proprietor Shamiele Singh becomes the poster girl for Kayture Stylings at the Rock Fab Issue event, in September, and continues her love affair with gold in the label at the Hennessy V party in November.
SEPTEMBER
39 The Rock Fab Issue nightclub event at The Hive launches 2016 Jamaica Observer Take Style Out.
40 #IBEROSTARChefOnTour makes a stop at the Grand in Rose Hall, where Natasha Nyanin, a writer/producer from New York City, and Iberostar Jamaica & Aruba Director of Operations Philipp Hofer dined on the Fernando Arellano-fare in style.
41 Jeweller Matthew Harris’s Mateo New York label finds a DC home at the Smithsonian Museum of African-American Culture in September, which is followed by the opening of a flagship store in New York in November.
42 As the countdown to the 2016 Jamaica Observer Takes Style Out retail party continued, the inaugural Seamlessly Stitched dining series features four episodes over a period of weeks, the first co-hosted by Keneea Linton-George, followed by Angella Scott, Bianca Bartley and Bill Edwards.
43 Multi-hyphenate artist Hugh Findletar aka Mr.FLOWERheadZ gifts BFF Miuccia Prada with his handmade book of of selected work,
FLOWERheadZ FRAGILE, backstage, after her Spring/Summer 2017 runway show, in Milan. Back in July, Findletar wore a Prada day shirt which featured the art of Berlin polymath Christophe Chemin,The Importants Ones, at Tamu McPherson’s birthday dinner on The Rock.
OCTOBER
44 Saint International model Tami Williams represents Teen Vogue at the L’Oreal Paris Gold Obsession party in Paris.
NOVEMBER
45 Pulse model Alicia Burke lands the cover of November’s Vogue Italia.
46 The quilted blankets and other home linens fom designer Jessica Odgen for APC are auctioned off at the Farm To Table event, in Mount Plenty.
47 Sprint legend Usain Bolt is anointed as one of GQ’s Men of the Year and appears on the magazine’s corresponding issue.
48 The MoDA Series Founder & Director wears Korto Momolu for The Collection MoDA runway show at the Worthington Extension, Spanish Court Hotel.
49 OCEAN Style Icon awardee and model Selita Ebanks & commercial airline pilot Lisa Elliott are the decided headturners over the magazine’s FashionShowcase Weekend.
DECEMBER
50 Mixed-media artist Ebony G Patterson’s creates an installation for Barneys New York’s holiday shop windows, under the luxury department store’s ‘Love Peace Joy Project’ campaign.
