Crocheting first started as a hobby, something that the designer Patricia Ghonda-Zola shared with her grandmother as a little girl. Patricia, started out making baby blankets then progressed to hats and booties…
2016 Designers
Black Fashion Week 2016 Urban Fashion Show J. Smith’s BLKLST Perpetually Fabulous BLKLST is a women’s and girls’ clothing and accessory line. It celebrates African American women’s style through bright colors…
Black Fashion Week 2016 Born and raised in Ghana and currently based in Chicago, Jennifer graduated with a Bachelors in Fashion Design and Technology from Takoradi Polytechnic. She started sewing at…
Dreams Designs was birthed in the late 1990’s by Joyce Boykin. Joyce a native of Chicago IL, and designer of over 40yrs is a former graduate of Austin High School, and the…
Black Fashion Week 2016 Creator of C. Marie designs, Delta Soror Cassie Marie Dodd is a new up and coming designer originally from Maywood, IL. Cassie recently graduated from Northern Illinois University…
Berny Martin is the fashion wiz behind his line "Catou" a nickname of his grandmother whom he decided to launch his company after. A sophisticated and confident woman, it was she who…