SWAGFOLIO:
The Style
I never knew where I’d end up in the fashion game–to this day, I still don’t know–I just know what comes natural to me. And all that is is to make different look good– by any means necessary!— in a lot of cases, that meant: not matching, splitting everything in half, spray painting fabric and purposely making knots instead of sewing properly!
I grew up watching my mother make 3 dresses a night—on her little sewing machine, my Aunts powdered up in sequined gowns just to go to a church functions. The “Style” factor was something that was handed down to me from the time my grandmother was born [circa 1929] growing up as the youngest of 3 and the only girl, I moved to Brooklyn, N.Y. from Dominica in 1986. We didn’t have much, but I looked forward to using my older cousins 80’s skirt suits–from the year before–to profile at school–for the year ahead. By Junior High, I cared lest about algebra and could only focus in art class. While other people were seeing things in dollars and cents, and how to double their money, I only saw things—and still do— in bright colors, and how I could make them more extravagant.
By 14 yrs old I created a secret love/hate relationship with 50’s hoop skirts, 70’s disco dresses and 80’s acid wash (the norm for growing up in Brooklyn, in the early 90’s, were Guess Jeans and Air Jordan’s) so I was able to express myself a little, by being the only person on the block wearing bright orange Fila Sneakers. At 16, I put a pair of scissors to most of my denim mini’s, colorful jeans and baby tee’s— people laughed—but by then most already knew my future.
SISTAH SNOBBISH
Vintage Photo shoot April 2009
FIERCERUMORS
1 year ago I quit my 2 year career designing graphic tee shirts (I thought combining my love of art and fashion was a match made in heaven) and the FierceRumors brand was born—”noooot really!”—is what I later found out and quit this chapter in The Big Ole’ Book of Fashion, and flipped the page to the next. I did, however, have the opportunity to showcase my personal intellectual art, spread out on Crayola divided cotton American Apparel tees, from heat pressing doorknockers to painting my own graffiti runway, FierceRumors–The Brand–became a lifestyle all on its own!
And here’s how she did:
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