INDIgroove_Robert Young-The Cloth

Do you feel middle class? Do the people looking at you think that you are? Robert Young, head fashion designer for the fashion house 'The Cloth' talks about what it means to be 'raised poor' in Trinidad and the effects it has to the psyche, fashion and design in the Caribbean.

In this converstion 

+The strugles around being 'raised poor' in the Caribbean

+ Being turned away from 'middle class places', wearing his own designs 

+ The dis-ease with the label of middle class

+Being a male designer in an industry which thrives on middle class values

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