Rest, rebirth and Paris Fashion Week: A Saint Lucian Story

After a five-year journey creating space for Caribbean culture in Paris, Petra Baptiste was intent on giving herself one year of rest. At the start of 2025 she vowed to slow down and take a beat but little did she know, a gap year would turn into a pathway to one of fashion’s biggest platforms; Paris Fashion Week. The tale behind how she got there is a decades-long lesson in courage, tenacity, intuitiveness, and sheer grace.