In an op-ed for Fashionista, designer Johnathan Hayden discusses attending fashion school in the deep South.
In an op-ed for Fashionista, Johnathan Hayden discusses attending fashion school in the deep South and how that has shaped his worldview as a designer.Author:Johnathan HaydenPublish date:Aug 12, 2020For many, higher education for creative careers is the golden ticket to escape conservative childhood towns and find your creative voice. You're placed in classrooms amongst like-minded peers all hungry to manifest their imagination.
Savannah is a port city with a waterfront in the Historic District along its river. It's every bit as visually idyllic as it's depicted in John Berendt's 1994 novel, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil": Spanish moss hangs from trees illustrating every lazy breeze in its balmy climate during the day and a spooky, spidery setting as seedy as its history at night.
In an internal diversity and inclusion panel I attended with Fashion For All Foundation at a major fashion brand's headquarters last year, I asked the HR moderator what companies can do to affect internal change if they are hiring candidates from a biased education system. She told me, as a matter of fact, the disparity "is part of the journey."
Kimberly Jenkins, who became the country's only Fashion and Race educator while at Parsons , says "it's a small pool of Black survivors from the fashion education system who may not have the same resources or Rolodex as their white peers" who weather the torrential ocean of fashion. Fashion education should not temper the Black life experiences that inspire its depiction in student work and then seek to control the narrative. These clothes hold our secrets, heal our pain and tell our stories in our voices — a form of catharsis on the path to self-actualization. And isn't self-actualization higher education's core value in a student's life?
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