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Kerby Jean-Raymond Quotes

born 1986

Kerby Jean-Raymond (born 1986) is a Haitian American fashion designer, the founder and creative director of the New York label Pyer Moss.

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Black people deserve to be patriotic, too.

Black people have been at the heart of so many things that people think of as ‘white.

Black people are portrayed tragically too often.

A lot of times in fashion, the conversation about diversity is confused with the conversation around inclusion.

They didn’t have the discount, so it didn’t work out.

I hope Pyer Moss shows other designers how to convert commerce to conversation.

Everyone would agree that I was the flyest kid in my neighborhood.

Some people joined gangs. Suddenly your friend doesn’t mess with you anymore and they’re trying to pick fights on you because you wore a blue shirt instead of a red shirt.

As we got older, people were pulled in different directions. You see how everyone’s school changed everyone’s demeanors.

I’d had a gun held on me before, but this was the first time I thought they’d shoot.

Use this space and this time allotted for us, however fleeting it may be, to communicate a message. Cause we need more of that. We don’t really need more bags and shoes. We need more stories.

I started working not out of choice, but necessity. My dad would give me $10 each morning, and that was it for food for the day.

The concept came when my friends and I were leaving a bar after playing basketball in Long Island.

I was into hip hop brands, but once I got to Barneys and that 50 percent discount, my style really changed.

I want to show things in another way.

Everything I’ve done has been personal.

Being in Manhattan opened up my eyes. I saw what was possible.

I’m lucky - I could’ve been blinded.

I got into Marni, Acne, Margiela, Yohji. When all of the kids wore Rocawear, I’d come in slim jeans. They would make fun of me at first, but then they would all try to buy what I had the next summer.

I felt like I had nothing to lose.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kerby Jean-Raymond (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.