The Caribbean Comes to the Front Row of American Fashion

Rachel Scott, the Jamaican-born designer at the helm of Proenza Schouler, is being held up by Vanity Fair as the face of American fashion's next generation. The distinction she seems to prize most, though, belongs to her own house, Diotima, which she intends to stand as proof of what Caribbean creativity can produce at the highest level. For an island whose winter closets have always looked south as readily as north, that is a name worth knowing before the season fills in.

With reporting from Vanity Fair.