dressed to their nines to have a good time at the city’s street carnival parades this week.Our correspondents Jan Onoszko and Fanny Lothaire paid them a visit. Which costume is your favourite?

“I don’t think that Carnival exists without queerness,” Potter said. And not just because “the majority of the people who are making the costumes are queer themselves.” However fun it ...

“I played for a band which was Trinidadian; I spent hours adding feathers, beads and geometric shapes to velvet on a costume I only paid £90 for.” In recent years, Carnival has become more ...

such as whether the predominance of foreign-made bikini costumes has reduced carnival to a girlie show. The festivities begin at 4 a.m. on the Monday before Ash Wednesday with a ritual called ...