Table of Contents

• Martine Rose

• The Emergence of Fashion Designers

• Audacity

Martine Rose

Martine Rose is a menswear fahsion deisgner. I often hear her name come up when it comes to influential black females in the fashion industry, and I decided it was time to learn more about her.

Here’s a video I watched that gave me a short yet detailed breakdown about who she is and her uprising.

I really admired how she went against the norm by making fashion clothing accessible with her CAT collab and hosting entire fashion shows in unorthodox venues such as an elementary school.

The Emergence of Fashion Designers

When researching fashion designers such as Virgil Abloh, Mowalola, Glenn Martens, etc. I’ve found a common theme.

It’s not that some went to fashion school but that they simply began.

Every single one of them started their own clothing brand, whether they had money or not. They just held a powerful vision, a desire to start, at least a bit of skill.

Audacity

Videos by people with creative jobs started popping up across my for you page with the same message:

“Have the audacity to put yourself out.“

These people didn’t sit around and wonder when the world would ever be more welcoming towards creative people. They worked for their position. For example, @djboybandd didn’t worry about whether he had experience or not, or even what other people thought. He chose to post himself, putting his face into the world and allowing that to open doors full of rich opportunity.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjRJ7R2Y/

At 19, Sibu (@sibusisiwekhupeeithe on TikTok) started her music journalism career by choosing to build a portfolio of music-focused writing through LinkedIn and on a personal blog. With that, she emailed companies she was interested in and told them to hire her in creative ways. Through her previous work, she made herself creative in her way of asking for the job, and she got hired! Now she has a deep experience from writing for record labels as a music journalist to working at Universal Music (even after applying over 20 times)!

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjReNeRW/

Sophia Wislon(@phiawilson) started her fashion photography with the same method career at 13, starting off with simple photoshoots around NYC (building her portfolio) and audaciously sent them to over 300 brands, publications, and people she wanted to work for. She didn’t have anything fancy; she just used a camera, shot what she could, and sent them all out in a simple PDF file attached in an email, already identifying herself as a fashion photographer. She faked it until she made it.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjRJ3Lrr/

I feel it. Something big is about to happen.