The People’s Runway

Ahmrii Johnson: Everlasting Love

Everlasting Love, the latest collection from Ahmrii Lorraine, explores the relationship between joy and grief, honoring both refuge and release. Rooted in the brand’s codes of Caribbean craftsmanship, narrative-driven textiles, and reverence for the handmade, the collection carries forward a language of cultural memory and renewal. Through silhouettes that echo deliverance and spiritual transition, the capsule transforms garments into vessels of hope, resilience, and eternal love.

Ahmrii Lorraine is a Bahamian-American fashion designer and multidisciplinary artist whose work fuses Caribbean craft, botanical science, and indigenous wisdom into ethereal, narrative-driven designs. Drawing from her heritage, lived experiences, and biblical text, Johnson transforms textiles and garments into stories that bridge art, fashion, and spiritual reflection.

Daveed Baptiste: Soaring High

Soaring High is a fashion collection by artist and designer Daveed Baptiste that explores the metamorphosis of a Haitian immigrant boy, chronicling his journey through the stages of life within urban Black American society. Each look represents a chapter in his story — capturing the desires, aspirations, and dreams that shape his path from adolescence to adulthood. The collection reveals a powerful transformation: from the Newcomer to the Street Kid, the School Boy striving for Black excellence, and ultimately, the self-actualized, polished Dandy.

Daveed Baptiste is an interdisciplinary designer and artist whose work incorporates fashion design, textile design, and photography. He draws inspiration from his migration from Port au-Prince, Haiti to Miami, Florida. Through his design, he explores themes of migration and cultural preservation within the Haitian community and the larger Caribbean diaspora, reclaiming African diasporic futures and narratives.

Kent Anthony: Icons

Kent Anthony’s collection was inspired by a trip to Rome, where he was struck by how art and architecture preserve history across generations. Reflecting on this, Kent began to consider how creative expression – especially within the African American experience –

documents stories that were often erased, yet live on through music, fashion, and design. Rooted in both classical references and the vibrant creative energy of Brooklyn, the collection explores the artistic process in seven stages, celebrating how place, history, and community shape what we create.

Kent Anthony is an African American designer whose background in fine art and industrial design informs his approach to fashion as a medium for storytelling. Growing up, he rarely saw the African American narrative communicated through a luxury lens – most portrayals leaned toward street culture, which did not reflect his own experience. Kent Anthony designs to fill that gap, offering new perspectives that elevate Black creativity within a luxury, intellectual framework.

Rojin Jung: Broken Patterns

Broken Patterns is a personal reflection of Rojin Jung’s unconventional path in life and his pursuit of becoming a fashion designer. It is heavily influenced by his experiences in Brooklyn and how it has shaped him into the person he is today. The collection portrays the hardships and struggles that come with going against the grain and how facing these seemingly negative experiences actually helps us grow and evolve as people. Ultimately, Rojin wanted this collection to inspire other creatives to be fearless and chase their dreams, no matter how impossible it might seem.

Rojin Jung challenges the modern ideals of comfort as he embraces imperfection and failure as a means to constantly evolve. Through his work, he encourages the audience to break out of patterns of living that trap them both physically and mentally. His designs are rooted in a journey of self-discovery, resilience, and generational healing as a child of immigrants.

Shriya Myneni: In Pieces, Still Whole

In Pieces, Still Whole explores identity as something always shifting, unraveling, and coming back together. Through fragmented construction and silhouettes that appear to morph and expand, Shriya wanted the garments to embody themes of transformation, erosion, and reformation. Each piece is meant to appear and feel as though in flux, holding the tension of loss and renewal that mirrors the way we keep remaking ourselves.

Raised in India, having lived in Indonesia and Canada, and now living in Brooklyn, Shriya Myneni’s diverse upbringing has shaped a unique perspective that comes through in her work. Shriya is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist who enjoys experimenting across mediums, allowing her to explore ideas in layered and meaningful ways. Her silhouettes often emerge from deconstructed shapes and reconstructed forms such as garments that morph, unravel, and rebuild to reflect how we carry ourselves and our pasts.