'The fashion industry wouldn’t be anywhere it is today without BIPOC culture.'
Previous to her studies, Jenkins’s foundational insight into the fashion industry came from glitzy accounts of backstage access and front row frivolity; she grew up watching shows like Canada’s own. “All that fashion journalism, and staying on the pulse, was really exciting to me,” Jenkins recalls. “I wanted to be in the fashion world somehow.
“I just saw fashion through one lens,” she says. “I was enthralled by the glamour and creativity of it, and the way you can construct and present your identity in different ways through fashion. I definitely had a grasp of how [the industry] works in that way. But it was kind of limited. By the time I was in my late teens and early twenties, I had an interest in things outside of fashion, or what I thought was outside of fashion, like art, sociology, anthropology, psychology.
After teaching for a few years, Jenkins proposed a new course to her alma mater, called ‘Fashion and Race’; it’s one facet of the educational approach she has worked tirelessly to develop since the course was accepted by Parsons in 2016. And in combination with the merit of its other two components–the Database, and an exhibition called–Jenkins has found herself as one of the leading voices in fashion when it comes to uncovering the true origins of much-loved designs.
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