2019 Best Black Male Fashion Disigner

Welcome to my continued coverage of astonishing Black designers, founders, influencers, brands and creators who are reinventing the rules of the fashion and beauty industries. Today I wanted to highlight 5 Black Male Fashion Designers Who Are Slaying The Game!

The fashion world is one of the few industries that has traditionally been dominated by women from buying, designing, modeling to pr and marketing. And we swallow fashion at a much higher charge per unit than men do as well – on boilerplate female consumers still  spend iii times equally much money on clothes than men do. And don't get me wrong, I love that my sisters are running this game and there's a reason I've already profiled female designers here and here. Just today I wanted to give the spotlight to the amazing Black Men who are following their dreams in building their own fashion empires. And let'southward gloat the diversity in their designs and visions besides – from elevated streetwear, to graphic knitwear, flamboyant femininity and everywhere in between, at that place's no shortage of talent with these amazing black male way designers.

Designer:

Christopher John Rogers, Louisiana-native designer, 2019 CFDA/Vogue  Fashion Fund Award winner

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Christopher John Rogers is off to a hot offset. The designer, still in his mid-20s, was born and raised in Baton Rogue, "a large small-scale boondocks" as he describes it, and attended Savannah College of Fine art & Design. From in that location he relocated to New York where he worked nether Diane Von Furnstenberg for ii years before launching his ain line in 2019 and making a splash at NYFW. Scrolling through his Instagram now, some of the biggest names in fashion similar Tessa Thompson, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Zendaya are rocking his runway and ruby carpeting-ready designs. Bursts of neon greens and reds, voluminous pieces with bow feathers and structured sleeves – merging the styles of Sunday-church goers with raw design power that bursts at the seams. Christopher'southward designs are fabricated to stand out in his adopted city of New York where muted blacks and whites are the norm of everyday clothing. "I always want to brand clothes that feel like a grin or a hug" he states, and information technology shows in his collections. Definitely a designer to accept on your radar who volition be shaping the industry for years to come.

Designer:

Victor Glemaud, Haitian-born, New York-raised designer

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Victor Glemaud is a king of vibrant knitwear. His elegant designs are playful, funky and full of life. He has a nifty eye for details and colour that peradventure only comes with feel. A veteran of fashion industry, Victor began his career as a pattern assistant to Patrick Robinson, a famed designer know for his work at Armani and Gap. Victor has too worked at Paco Rabanne, Tommy Hilfiger and manner agency KCD. And all of this before he launched his ain label in 2008. But back to his designs, you might have seen his pieces at online retailers like Nordstrom and Shopbop (where I got the dress that I am wearing). Colorful stripes, every bit well as blackness and white geometrical patterns and prints that blend masterfully together adore most of his designs. Some other signature detail of his designs are tipped frills that describe on Latin American and the designer's Caribbean roots. It'south the type of clothes that make you want to dance Bolero nether the night sky.

Designer:

Kerby Jean-Raymond, a New York based designer, 2018 CFDA/Vogue  Style Fund Honour winner

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Some other CFDA/Faddy $400,000 grant winner on the listing. "The Fashion Fund was set up 2003 with the intention of giving emerging American blueprint talent the opportunity for further success in the business organisation of fashion. Onetime winners have included Jonathan Simkhai, Altuzarra, Alexander Wang and Proenza Schouler." Not at all a bad company of designers to keep. Started in 2013 by Kerby Jean-Raymond, Pyer (pronounced "Pierre") Moss is an elevated streetwear make rooted in social commentary. Designing for both men and women, Pyer Moss collections are known for their color blocking, bold lettering and slogans, as well equally accessories and chunky footwear in partnership with Reebok that call up 90s graphic sportswear. Recall purples, reds, and teals harmoniously existing as function of the same collection. In improver to a bidding streetwear empire, Kerby Jean-Raymon is an outspoken voice on the cultural bug that have plagued both the fashion manufacture and this land equally a whole. His contempo t-shirts included such slogans equally "stop calling 911 on the culture", his 2016 catwalk featured a documentary on police brutality in the U.S., and the front page of the Pyer Moss website currently features a short flick on the Innocence Project as well as a call to donate.

Designer:

Patrick Cupid, a New York native designer, educated stateside at F.I.T & Parsons and in Italy at Politecnico di Milano.

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Patrick Cupid makes playful clothes that draw on his US and European design roots. Playful coloring, printed crepe, soft wool, it'southward a European elegance in a nutshell that fits right into the erstwhile streets of Paris and perhaps a vacation at French Riviera. This emerging designer had to battle through so much to get where he is now – originally self-taught, he has worked almost every job in the fashion world while working on his own characterization – overseeing a model agency, PR bureau, a consultancy, existence a photographer, equally well as working at a piece of furniture showroom and an art gallery. And there is likewise the fact that Patrick hails from the Bronx and breaks the stereotype of what a designer making elegant and feminine clothes should look similar. "People have said to me: "you are Black, and from the Bronx, you should do streetwear; information technology will sell big in Europe because they like Black American style. They are obsessed with the ghetto. So you should pretend to exist more hip-hop" to which Patrick merely laughs and continues to follow his vision. On his ain terms.

Founder:

LaQuan Smith, Queens, New York-native, who made his NYFW debut at 21.

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LaQuan Smith's clothes ooze sexuality. Self-taught as a designer, LaQuan did non attend traditional fashion schools like F.I.T or Parsons but decided to pursue and build his own trajectory grade. He made his NYFW debut at historic period 21 and launched his eponymous label in 2013. Since then, the likes of Beyoncé, Cardi B and Kim Kardashian accept worn his designs that seem custom fabricated for their unapologetic figures. "I love a good curve — LaQuan Smith is always about accentuating the waist points and etching out the hips and just really jubilant the body." Sheer bodysuits, wild animate being prints, puffer jackets, quilted boots and skin-baring cut-outs, LaQuan's designs seem custom made for risk-takers and those who practice non take style too seriously. These are the clothes that you would desire to party in at a giant Beverly Hills mansion, and non wear to come across your boyfriend'south parents. And that seems to be the bespeak.

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