The man­ag­er of the mod­els who par­tic­i­pat­ed in the con­tentious pre­sen­ta­tion dur­ing a fash­ion show at the Trin­i­ty Cathe­dral on Sun­day has is­sued an apol­o­gy to the Church, its parish­ioners and the gen­er­al pub­lic for the in­ci­dent.

Christo­pher Nathan, in a post on the Co­co Vel­vet In­ter­na­tion­al In­sta­gram page, said: "As founder and Cre­ative Di­rec­tor of Style­week Port-of-Spain I take full re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the breach­es in an agree­ment be­tween Rev­erend Shel­ley Ann Tenia and the new fran­chise hold­ers Zetick Caribbean Lim­it­ed."

He con­tin­ued, " I ap­plaud the Dean for al­low­ing us to host the fash­ion week shows in the Cathe­dral; the pub­lic must know that due dili­gence was ob­served and promis­es were made by me that all fash­ion col­lec­tions would be taste­ful and any swim­suits on show would be ful­ly cov­ered by sarong wraps, beach over­coats and oth­er ac­ces­sories."

He con­tin­ued, "The man­age­ment of Co­co Vel­vet In­ter­na­tion­al wish­es to pub­licly apol­o­gize to the Bish­op, Dean & Rec­tor of the Holy Trin­i­ty Cathe­dral and its Dio­cese as well as parish­ioners and the gen­er­al pub­lic for the un­for­tu­nate in­ci­dents that oc­curred over the last week­end."

Nathan ex­plained that he had in­tend­ed to be present to en­sure that all guide­lines were fol­lowed, but missed his flight from Sey­chelles and as a re­sult missed the en­tire Fash­ion Week.

Nathan, how­ev­er, said there were pos­i­tives to be tak­en from the in­ci­dent.

"It has shone a spot­light on the An­gli­can Church in Trinidad and To­ba­go; high­light­ing the need for cor­po­rate/gov­ern­ment/cit­i­zen­ry fi­nan­cial sup­port to re­store the Cathe­dral and it un­der­scores the moral de­cay in our so­ci­ety...for a young fash­ion de­sign­er to think it was okay and ac­cept­able to show­case skimpy swim­suits in front the Cathe­dral's al­tar has me very con­cerned. Holy Mol­ly has opened many na­tion­al con­ver­sa­tions about moral­i­ty, ethics and the lack of spir­i­tu­al­i­ty amongst our peo­ple," he said.

He end­ed, "I stand by Reverand Shel­ley Ann Tenia, ready to at­tend the in­quiry or­dered by the Bish­op and hope that Trinidad and To­ba­go will for­give her for not putting suf­fi­cient vig­i­lance in place to en­sure agree­ments were ob­served. Her trust in the Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee to do the right thing failed her."