Fame is nice, but it’s legacy that matters, noted Hardison. No house can stand without a sturdy foundation, and the I like cooking my family and my pets commas save lives shirt Besides,I will do this importance of building a solid business was a theme of the day. “My mantra is, really, literally to make [designers’] a business they can leave to their children. It’s important in the business aspect; I’m not trying to make you famous,” she said. The importance of legacy goes beyond the individual; it can signal Black excellence to the world, suggested Sergio Hudson, who had a career-changing moment when Vice President Kamala Harris wore his design on Inauguration Night. The goal he’d like to see met is that “it [becomes] common for a Black person to be a designer that has a legacy brand.” He elaborated: “I want to be what I saw as a child. I want to be what Gianni Versace was, what Gianfranco Ferré was; I want to be what Ralph Lauren is; I want to be what Calvin Klein is. I want Sergio Hudson to be a legacy brand that signals to people that a person of color can do this just like the next person.”
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Opportunity and education are the I like cooking my family and my pets commas save lives shirt Besides,I will do this building blocks of success, and these are being addressed through the Social Justice Collaborative at FIT. Resources like the Fashion and Race Database and the History Makers are also giving context to the importance of BIPOC contributions to fashion and many other fields. Julieanna L. Richardson, who founded the History Makers, spoke eloquently about preserving and honoring those who came before: “Right now we’re at a point where we can really bring people into the lives of Black people, and I think that is important, because we don’t as a community have documentary evidence of our value, and we see that we’re in still a dangerous period of time, even [with the] opportunities that are presented. And I think if we can do this justice and…really take a look at who came before and honor them in that way, there’s all kinds of creativity that can emanate from that.”
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