The recently appointed Salvatore Ferragamo creative director talks about Trinidad’s carnival
“Carnival brought my family together. We used to go to Trinidad for it every year until I was 13 or 14. It’s a celebration of freedom – particularly of enslaved people being set free. I have one memory of my auntie going to play J’ouvert, the opening-day festival where you dress up and dance from sunrise.
She was in her sixties and I remember saying, ‘Aren’t you too old for that?’ She was like, ‘No, how dare you!’ I look at photos of her and her siblings performing it from a young age way into their sixties and seventies – that heritage has stuck with me. My grandparents wore sailor outfits, my parents wore silk shirts and trousers, and my sisters wore bikinis, little shorts and big T-shirts, which they’d take off when my parents left.
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