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• Patwa Apparel Launches New Retail Store

  8 February 2012 by Karin in Fashion [ no comments ]

  Last Tuesday, January 31, Heneka Watkis launched her new retail store and line of clothing - Patwa Apparel. The  Patwa line consists of branded t-shirts, shorts, dresses and other tops for both men and women printed with pithy Jamaican expressions. The night ...

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• Patwa Apparel Goes Global

  27 October 2011 by Karin in Entrepreneurs,Fashion [ 1 comment ]

  [caption id="attachment_13270" align="aligncenter" width="459" caption="Heneka Watkis-Porter"][/caption]   Heneka Watkis-Porter is determined to make an impression on the world stage with Patwa Apparel and so when the opportunity to attend the recent Women Vendors and Exhibition Forum in Chongqing, China, presented itself, she ...

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• Jamaican Woman Wins Bride’s Magazine Dressmaking Competition

  11 June 2011 by Karin in Fashion [ 1 comment ]

  JAMAICAN designer Nandi Chin Fernandez was  declared the winner of Bride's Magazine's Operation Dream Wedding Dress competition. Fernandez greeted the announcement by Bride's editor-in-chief Millie Bratten on ABC's Good Morning America, with tears of joy, saying, "It means the world [to ...

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• YardEdge Talks to Heneka Watkis, Creator of Patwa Apparel

  6 May 2011 by Karin in Entrepreneurs,Fashion [ 6 comments ]

    Heneka Watkis is CEO and Director of Marketing for a new Jamaican line, Patwa Apparel. YardEdge caught up with Heneka recently to find out what Patwa is all about... YardEdge: What is Patwa all about? Heneka: Patwa focuses on the richness and ...

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• Back on the Rack Thrift Shop Sale Jan 29 to Benefit Missionaries of the Poor

  27 January 2011 by Karin in Fashion [ 1 comment ]

  Kingston's newest thrift shop "Back on the Rack" is open again on January 29 with great bargains! Back on the Rack is located at  28 Collins Green Ave, off Half Way Tree Rd. All proceeds go to Fr. Richard Ho Lung's Missionaries of ...

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• Skin Bleaching in Jamaica More Popular Now?

  12 January 2011 by Karin in Fashion [ 10 comments ]

  Attention is once again focused on the issue of skin bleaching in Jamaica, thanks mainly to Vybz Kartel who recently commented that bleaching was no different really than white people wanting to tan themselves. As Annie Paul points out in her ...

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• Cool Places to Shop For Christmas

  17 December 2010 by Karin in Art,Fashion,Worth A Visit [ 2 comments ]

  [caption id="attachment_10796" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Nadia Stanley from Stanley and Empress"][/caption] Ok. So there's some last minute Christmas shopping to do - here are some definite cool (and fun) shopping spots to check out this Christmas season... 1. ART AND CRAFT FAIRS: Coming up ...

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• “Back to the Rack” New Thrift Shop Opens in Kingston

  4 October 2010 by Karin in Fashion [ 10 comments ]

  I've always loved vintage clothing and thrift shops and often wondered why we don't have more of them in Jamaica. The concept makes so much sense: basically clothes re-cycling - what's old to you is new new to me.  In ...

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