Christopher Nathan reflects on Caribbean fashion legacy amid cancer battle
Creative director of Coco Velvet International Fashion & Model Management, Christopher Nathan, has spent a great deal of his career training and developing young, professional fashion models for international placement. And even as he lies paralysed in a bed at the Sangre Grande Hospital, his thoughts still go out to his “children,” whom he said may be worried that he has not been in contact with them in several days.
Last week, Nathan was diagnosed with prostate cancer and metastatic spinal cancer while in St Vincent and the Grenadines, where he went to get some much-needed rest after a hectic few months of fashion workshops, style week, and competitions.
“During the workshops I was having excruciating back pains, so I decided to go to the hospital and see what was going on. I went to Mount Hope (Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex), they did X-rays, and at the end they told me that I have osteoarthritis in my spine.”
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