PEORIA (25News Now) – Peoria Style Week is receiving a serious enhance with one of many business’s largest names leaving his mark on the River Metropolis’s vogue scene.
Co-founder of the streetwear model FUBU, J. Alexander Martin, was named the occasion’s official host.
The aim is to place midwest vogue on the map and create alternatives for native designers and enterprise homeowners.
“To have a co-founder be right here, I feel it simply speaks volumes. What they’re doing for Peoria, bringing a brand new degree of consideration, and credibility,” stated Mariama Ford, a Peoria Style Week decide.
Bringing Martin to Peoria is about star energy and extra.
“Being right here with him, having the ability to meet him, it’s like assembly a hero,” stated Assyrian Brunson, headline designer for Velt’Larant.
Martin has appeared as a visitor investor on “Shark Tank,” the place he has mentored and invested in rising companies. He just lately shared his journey in a memoir, “Made in Harlem: A Memoir of the Inventive Revolution,” detailing his path from Harlem to constructing some of the influential names in vogue.
Organizers credited the Illinois State Black Chamber of Commerce for its partnership and sponsorship in serving to deliver Martin to Peoria.
Organizers stated that is simply the beginning of their efforts to develop a vogue and entrepreneurship pipeline in central Illinois.
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