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Clara Luce Lafond is Miss International Haiti 2013. The only daughter in a family of four brothers, Miss Lafond worked in the field of education and in the beauty industry, prior to earning the crown. She’s a makeup artist and…
Jean-Yves Marchand’s greatest fashion influence is his grandmother. Growing up in Port-au-Prince, the Haiti-based fashion designer, used to watch his grandmother concoct all sorts of intricate designs for her clients. It’s around this time that young little Marchand started to…
Scarlett Rocourt is the natural hair world’s wonder woman. The founder of the natural hair products firm Wonder Curl, the entrepreneur is a fervent champion of natural beauty, and a graduate of Rutgers University. The products she’s created have become…
Ask Stephane Achille about herself and most likely she’ll respond with a blank stare—not because she’s at loss at to what to say, but rather, she may not know where to start when enumerating her accomplishments. Her scholastic accomplishments include…
Valerie Morin is the owner and founder of A La Mode Accessories. Born in Haiti, she is currently pursuing a degree in Business and Communication. A self-described God-fearing, spontaneous, self-motivated, and independent woman, she is disciplined enough to be juggling…
Hadascha Brutus always dreamed of becoming an attorney. But even as a little girl, she was smitten by fashion. She loved dressing up her Barbie dolls. She would scribble little fashion doodles on her homework—a special touch her teachers didn’t…
Customers like Mimi Gabriel swear by the products in the beauty line Cosmetiques Laudun. Says Gabriel, “After using the Sweet Feet Repair Foot Creme for a couple of days, my feet feel like silk”. Gabriel isn’t the only one who’s…
Like most hair and beauty-based firms, Kreyol Essence started off with a beauty disaster. Yve-Car Momperousse was having her hair done at a salon, when the stylist, using an overheated iron, burned her hair. Momperousse found herself with a hair…
Talk about being at the right place at the right time! At the age of eighteen, Hencha Voigt left her home in Haiti to go attend college at St. John’s University in New York City. Who should spot her on…
In the world of modeling in Paris, few make necks crane longer than Carl Jaro. Jaro was born in Port-au-Prince and immigrated to France nineteen years ago—at the age of seven. He was discovered by a Jamaican modeling scouting agent,…