Angela Jernigan

Hometown: Columbus, Ohio
Collection in three words: Beautiful. Feminine. Masculine.
Instagram: @_boompa_

With quilts, woven blankets, and a color palette that pairs pastel colors with brown, Angela Jernigan is hoping to show Black men in a different light in her collection titled Alive. “The inspiration of my collection comes from the protests over the summer,” she says. Jernigan sought out materials and colors that tend to be linked to women or older women and not thought to be connected to young Black men. After graduation, Jernigan hopes to move to Los Angeles to be a costume designer for film and video. It was television, after all, that inspired her to become a designer. “Growing up I used to watch America’s Next Top Model and That's So Raven, which got me interested in fashion and creating,” she says. “That's So Raven really showed me that I could aspire to be a Black female fashion designer.”