Articles by Ameera Steward
Not-so-average: Jessica Couch - Fashion Tech Consultant, Founder, & Entrepreneur
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When asked ‘who are you?’ Jessica Couch says that is something she’s still pondering. “I would say that I’m a woman who is learning about herself, and learning her place in the world, and trying to understand her purpose in life,” Couch explained. “I feel like I embody a lot of different things for other people and I too, am wondering, outside...
Not-so-average: Rikki Byrd - Writer. Educator. Curator
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Rikki Byrd is a writer, educator, and curator originally from Saint Louis, Missouri, whose work focuses on Black aesthetic practices including fashion, performance, and contemporary art. She is also the founder of Black Fashion Archive - a repository of both Black fashion history and Black people’s experiences to clothing and textiles; as well...
Not-so-average: Elizabeth Way - Associate Curator at The Museum at FIT
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Elizabeth Way is an Associate Curator at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), as well as a fashion historian whose personal research focuses on the intersection of Black American culture and fashion. Her most recent project is the Fresh, Fly, Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style exhibit which celebrates the 50th anniversary of...
Not-so-average: Tamiko White – Fashion Entrepreneur
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Tamiko White describes herself as more than “one thing.” She says she’s multilayered. With job titles that range from writer to hand model, White is a fashion professional who has experienced all facets of the industry. And because of that, White considers herself a fashion and media entrepreneur, whose most recent business venture calls for her...
Not-so-average: Sharon Lawrence – Senior Sales Executive
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When asked ‘who are you,’ Sharon Lawrence didn’t give the usual answer - her name, or even her job title. She gave us insight into who she is as a person. Lawrence describes herself as a 53-year-old Caribbean American, African American woman with a “make it happen” attitude. She added that she’s a person who has worked in the fashion industry...
Not-so-average: WyQuasia King - Director and Buyer at Macy’s
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WyQuasia King is a 33-year-old director and buyer for Macy’s who is from Westchester, NY. Her most notable work is the Macy’s and Casper Divine Nine Sorority Collection - a collection of dresses and suits that celebrate the work and colors of the various Divine Nine Sororities. “It was my most prized and most proud accomplishment in my career,”...
Not-So-Average: Jeff Karly Drouillard – Creative Director & Adjunct Professor at Parsons
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Jeff Karly Drouillard is a Haitian-American creative director, professor, designer, and an all-around multifaceted individual from Flatbush Brooklyn, New York. “I am a son, a brother, a friend, [an] educator,” said Drouillard, “just a guy with a perspective.” Jeff Karly Drouillard, Courtesy of Karjaka About this series There’s more to the...
Museum at FIT: Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop in American fashion
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When you open the doors of the Museum at FIT their red carpet guides you down two roads, one of which leads you through double doors decorated with two photos of fashionable everyday New Yorkers taken by photographer Jamel Shabazz. As you walk through and down the stairwell you’re greeted with more colorful photos taken by Shabazz which all...
Auctioning Off The André Leon Talley Collection
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Beginning Wednesday January 18, 2023 and ending Friday February 17, 2023 Christie’s – an art and luxury business known for it’s auctions and private sales – is putting André Leon Talley’s legacy on display with an auction selling Talley’s collection of haute couture, handbags, jewelry, and more. For those who don’t know, Talley was an American...