21st-century-african-american-businesspeople

"The fashion industry, at large, has become a high speed, disposable garment driven industry fueled by marketing and hype."

"I see today's fashion industry as a mega commercial machine that creates seasonal trends with a frenzied frequent flow of merchandise that is unprecedented."

"We too can have nice homes we too can have fine jewelry."

"As an industry, we have dramatically moved away from an artistic and conscious practice."

"We collaborate and engage with each other."

"Some stores flow new goods every week."

"“If I’m on this project, I will make sure it is designed with women in mind. So all the features were catered to a more broad audience. It was still going to stay a muscle car but it’s just going to have more of a soft touch"

"He way he did this was, he had these beautiful portraits of African Americans dressed beautifully, hair, makeup, hats, jewelry."

"And the story goes that David Selznick’s wife was at the World’s Fair and saw her hats and the hats really depicted the film Gone with the Wind."

"What we see in the stores is the result of that too much, too often, too much of the same, that lacks quality and purpose."

"It is not easy and you really have to know the profile of your consumer, the psychology of their buying behavior, and be steps ahead of them on what they will want in the future."

"For those of us in the industry who support the same principles and philosophy for where the industry should be headed."

"I have judged their annual student fashion show and usually publish an editorial piece; review the graduating senior’s portfolio show."

"This unsustainable roller coaster has no end in sight."

"I was attending Keidan Elementary School and we would have ‘show and tell.’ I bought my car made out of clay and I would draw pictures of cars and such but it was my male teacher who told me that because I was a girl, I couldn’t design cars."

"“I knew I had to come up with something different. So I said, ‘Okay, I’m gonna start thinking about females and how they design things and take into account things women would want in a car."

"I just felt like this was the time."

"What he wanted to do was show that we were lawyers and doctors and school teachers and business people, and that we were a middle class that was upwardly mobile."

"They speak highly of these women and the quality of what they make."

"In 1939, Blount had a beautiful body of work of these miniature hats and she presented them at the World’s Fair at the time."

"They are a courageous breed of designers who are going against the commercialized trend of 'more is more' and giving artistic value, a cultural face, and environmental consciousness to fashion."

"Designers and the creative teams are burned out and are producing like robots."

"My leadership role in the companies I worked for VP, Disney Consumer Products; Product Development, Levi Strauss & Co.; Buyer, Macy's; Director of Marketing, adidas accessories was to create, lead, and implement products from concept to in-store."

"I understand the complexity of bringing a profitable product to life."

"By leveraging and building on my experience and contacts."

"EDGE fosters a global network of fashion industry professionals, educators, and the arts."

"We share our resources, support, and promote our efforts."

"An example of this is my relationship with the Art Institute of California."

"I was directing the entire process from design, to sourcing, to sell in and sell through in the stores."

"My background is fashion merchandising and marketing."

"It all started at the age of 11, introduced me to his coworkers and I noticed a set of blue doors. When I tried to open the door my dad told me I couldn’t go behind them because I wasn’t an employee and behind those doors were men and they were called ‘transportation designers. They designed every car that you saw going up the road."

"“I was so intrigued in hearing that, I decided that I wanted to become a car designer and I wanted to work at Ford designing cars"

"He didn’t know my father was my big mentor. He introduced me to this world and I was being mentored from all angles.”"

"From the time I was hired on Oct. 24, 1983 until I was let go in 2008, I was largely the only female car designer at the company. I was doing all this work but I was not getting promoted. I was watching Ford hire male designers and seeing them get promoted. They even started hiring female designers that were getting promoted before me,”"

"The power of fashion has the unique ability to transform identity and culture."

"What really moved me along was what we all witnessed last year, the injustices that were done to the marginalized communities."

"I had the time and this was the time to do it."

"I always wanted to elevate those voices, those hidden voices that we really didn’t know about, especially when it comes to black fashion makers who really did make a contribution to fashion."

"Their market was really targeted to those that really could pay the bills."

"I mean, white women who wanted to have a dressmaker, and many of them, when you look back at what they did, a lot of the fashion press."

"They were defined as dressmakers and seamstresses."

"They would be defined as designers."

"The history is that Mildred did make those hats."

"The power of fashion lies in its ability to transform identity and culture."

"No one in my family has ever had it, but maybe there are some genetic markers.”"

"I never knew that there was a possibility that I was going to get pancreatic cancer."

"I was a single mother to an eight year old daughter, and she needed me."

"I needed to allow my body time to heal, and I needed to relearn my body."

"I was on several medications."

"I decided that I would not give in to the mindset that my life was over, even though pancreatic cancer was is a cancer that has no cure."