It’s throwback Saturday to the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel where a week ago family, friends and devotees of “Jamaica’s First Lady of Fashion” Olga Francis Keane swanned into a by-invitation-only red-carpet event, curated by the late designer’s family, to honour the woman who once dominated the local fashion scene and whose design tentacles stretched as far as the African continent and impressed noted French designer Madame Carven. The fashion show, which featured some of Francis Keane’s classic cutwork embroidery pieces, and modelled by her favourite muses, was tinged with nostalgia.

The festivities closed with the launch of the Dudley & Olga Francis Keane Fashion Foundation Ltd, which will be governing the annual scholarship dedicated to a student at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, as well as a sneak peek of the fashion tome: Francis Keane: Her Life, Fashion & Legacy.

Page 2, like those in attendance, applauds Francis Keane’s contribution to fashion.

Photographer: Garfield Robinson