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May
Carnival Tag
After a few uncertain years throughout the pandemic, in 2022, Notting Hill Carnival was back with a bang, as celebrations kicked off once more across West London. This yr, nonetheless, was “busier than ever” in response to Dazed photographer Rae Martins Ashton, who headed into straight into the motion with their analogue camera of their bag.
Martins was there to capture one of the best street style and sweetness looks from the 2023 edition of Carnival, and as per usual, the people piling into Ladbroke Grove and beyond didn't disappoint. Alongside a sea of Jamaican football jerseys and battered denim jeans and jorts were an entire bunch of barely-there looks made up of bikini tops, cut-out body-suits, and bum-skimming minis. As...
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“Within the Amazon, where I live, I feel that the Caribbean has a robust influence—on our music for instance, something that actually makes my body pulsate,” says Young. “The new and humid climate is filled with water that creates a reference to the body. The plants are also on this same context: how they form across the body and tell a story.”Photo: Christopher “Swurve” JohnsonThe storytelling element was key for Ames, who assigned each of the designers a micro theme to work inside. Fredrik Tjærandsen, the Norwegian designer whose giant balloon dresses achieved viral status at his Central Saint Martins graduate show in 2019, considered the phoenix; “exploring how the human body can metaphorically embody its transformative nature,” in his...
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Courtesy of Tenille Clark
The Bahamas Carnival is quickly becoming an important Caribbean cultural experience for tourists and for good reason. Recently held from May 18-21, the exciting series of events offers travelers a novel opportunity to immerse themselves in the perfect of two worlds – a unbelievable, year-round weather escape to the tropics and a celebration of history and heritage that dates back a whole bunch of years to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. With 700 coral islands, 16 of that are inhabited, and hundreds of cays that total near 4,000 square miles, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas is a shining gem within the crown of...
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