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Aug. 31–Sept. 6, 2012 • Caribbean Life • Brooklyn/Staten Island • Page 6
Costume bands showdown
By Tangerine Clarke
Veteran Trinidad and
Tobago designer and alltime
Mas band winner,
Kenneth Antoine is gearing
up to bring excitement
over the Labor Day weekend
competing in three of
the biggest Carnival events,
with confidence that he will
take home the coveted prize
for best children’s costume
band.
Placing third in the Medium
band category last year,
the champ was expected to
participate at this year’s ‘Ole
Mas on Thursday, Aug. 30,
at the Brooklyn Museum
grounds, with Victoria Secret
Trini Style. He will then
unleash the Children’s Costume
competition on Saturday,
Sept. 1, and then revel
on the Parkway on Monday,
Sept. 3, for another win.
Antoine’s Carnival studio
located at 245 E 34th Street
at the corner of Church Avenue
in Brooklyn is emblazoned
with colorful and
sensual costumes befitting
his theme - “A Lust of Man-
Antoine Revelers from left, Antoinette Rhodes, Lisa
Taylor and Michelle Russle. Tangerine Clarke
kind.”
With his sights set on
outfitting more than 200
masqueraders to revel in the
large band category, Antoine
wants the spectators and
judges alike to expect for the
first time, an exotic front
line section festooned with
ladies all wearing alluring
designed wire-frame bras
in a variety of colors and
styles.
Antoine will be playing
up his ladies to male spectators
in sections titled,
Waben (bad woman), Divas,
Virgins, Rant and Rave, and
Material Girls. The costumes
that will also be cen-
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Adam and Eve, said Antoine,
will be decorated with thousands
of feathers, beads and
sequins.
He said despite the rising
cost to design costumes, he
has the cheapest available to
accommodate masquerade
that are eager to participate
in the carnival. The affordable
prices start at $150.00
for men, while women cost
from $185.00 to $225.00.
On the other hand, costume
designer Clyde Bascome
is raring to storm the
parkway under the 1199
SEUI Social Cultural Community
banner, vying in
the medium category with
350-strong revelers. He will
bring to life the rhythm
of the theme “Drums” –
in spectacular pageantry
depicting the beauty of
ancient Asia, Africa and
South America.
Bascome, another Trinidad
and Tobago designer
who has competed on the
parkway for many years,
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and been a designer for the
last 20 years, with innovative
costumes said that he
wanted to use a common
theme that unites nations,
and as such has created six
sections that will tell the
story of the Aztecs, Myans,
Indians, Yoruba, Rabari and
Arapesh tribes.
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The band will consist of
both male and female revelers
and a children’s costume
section.
Bascome is known for his
vibrancy and lavish costume
design and as such, has
embellished each piece with
tons of feathers, streamers
and sequins.
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