People Business

Issue No. 001 / 2026

Grace Jones in a black tailored suit with structured shoulders, a cigarette held between her lips, photographed against a plain grey ground.
PB-ORIG-001 — GRACE JONES

The
Original

In 1978, Jean-Paul Goude photographed Grace Jones crouching in a cage, teeth bared, wearing a collar. The fashion world didn’t quite know what to do with it — which was, almost certainly, the point.

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Issue No. 001 / 2026 — Index of Records

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Issue No. 001 — twelve records on Caribbean fashion, art, and trade. Edited by xaymacæ.

  1. PB-ORIG-001 Grace Jones {the original} She wasn’t exporting a feeling about Jamaica. She was exporting a vision that happened to come from someone Jamaican.
  2. PB-ORIG-002 Sintra Bronte, 1972 JTB The Jamaica Tourist Board put a woman in a red shirt marked JAMAICA and sent her image out into the world. She wasn’t even Jamaican.
  3. PB-ORIG-003 The Politics of the Kareeba Shirt, 1970s–2025 Ivy Ralph’s design, Michael Manley’s parliament, and the suit the Costume Institute finally caught up with.
  4. PB-ORIG-004 Clarkes {cult following or national projection} How an English shoemaker became Jamaican national dress.
  1. PB-ORIG-005 The Windrush Generation The irreversible impact of Caribbean fashion on Britain — from Nicholas Daley to Grace Wales Bonner.
  2. PB-ORIG-006 Football Is Freedom Bob Marley beyond the musical legacy: the adidas archive, the Firebird track pants, and the game as liberation.
  3. PB-ORIG-007 The Politics of the Bandana Dress A cloth from Chennai, issued as plantation workwear, tied into two peaks and made a national flag.
  4. PB-ORIG-008 Brand Jamaica Puma, the JAAA, and what a nation of under three million charges the sportswear giants for its speed.
  5. PB-ORIG-009 The First Carnival Masters dressed as the people they owned. Then emancipation came, and the enslaved took the costume back.
  6. PB-ORIG-010 Grace Wales Bonner {show your working} She takes menswear at Hermès in January 2027. Nobody can show you the clothes yet, so here is the research paper on the researcher.
  7. PB-ORIG-011 Dru Campbell {look 47} Nineteen, from Belmont District in Clarendon, inside the world’s top fifty. The story isn’t the fairytale. It’s the machinery.
  8. PB-ORIG-012 Something Else {the literati} Jamaica never built a fashion press. So the best writing about how we dress got done by poets, sociologists and one man writing about walking.