With a love for fashion and visual art, Cedric Brown of Cedric Brown Collections grew up with a passion for creating beautiful pieces. After obtaining his B.F.A. in fashion design from the Savannah College of Art and Design , Brown began his fashion collection of kimonos, pocket squares, and more. The pieces are being featured in popular Black TV shows such as Our Kind of People and Greenleaf . Brown sat down for a phone interview with BlavityU to discuss his early fashion/art influences, creative process, and experience as a Black artist and designer in two white-majority fields. The below interview has been edited for length and clarity. Blavity: What artistic/fashion references did you have growing up? Cedric: Well, I will say that since I was 2 years old, I grew up scribbling fashionable women on paper. I was the type of person that I always doodled. You know how you have a kid in the classroom that just draws on paper the whole time? That was definitely me. I...
