A working trip to the United Kingdom last summer resulted in a burst of inspiration for Jamaican designer Delawness. His London Emerald capsule collection, released in early December, reflects that trip.<\/p>\n
London Emerald comprises sweatshirt, T-shirt, shorts, and Beanie headwear, among others. His leisure wear is accompanied by a hip hop song of the same name, performed by the 26-year-old from Montego Bay. Delawness said observing life in Covid-stricken London was an eye-opener. People enjoyed the summer climate and pranced about as if the pandemic did not exist. It was the perfect light-bulb moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach of my collections are shaped by their own unique story and package to deliver an\u00a0experience true to that story. Introspeq<\/strong> was about, introspection. London Emerald, however, is about realizing my dreams in a new place in the midst of a pandemic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Introspeq<\/strong>, his first set of designs, was released one year ago.<\/p>\n Delawness was born in St. Thomas parish in eastern Jamaica but has lived most of his life in Montego Bay, Jamaica\u2019s tourism mecca. He attended the Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston for two semesters and although he never graduated, his visionary designs have caught the attention of high-profile acts like Grammy winner Koffee and Chronixx, one of the leading lights in neo-roots-reggae.<\/p>\n London Emerald, Delawness notes, captures his growth as an artist. \u201cWith\u00a0each project, I can definitely see how I\u2019m evolving with my artistic direction.\u00a0My work reflects my growth as an artist and as a individual,\u201d he reasoned. \u201cI always ask myself with every art piece\u00a0I conceptualize: \u2018What problems does it solve? What message am I sending? Who do I want the message to reach?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A working trip to the United Kingdom last summer resulted in a burst of inspiration for Jamaican designer Delawness. His London Emerald capsule collection, released in early December, reflects that trip. London Emerald comprises sweatshirt, T-shirt, shorts, and Beanie headwear, among others. His leisure wear is accompanied by a hip hop song of the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/2679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}