Designer Confidential highlights the work of SU's greatest fashion assest: its student designers.
Ayoni Safiya Warburton is nothing short of a go-getter. The senior at Syracuse University is president of Fashion’s Conscience, a student organization that advocates the empowerment of minorities within the fashion and retail industries.
Ayoni Warburton
She is presently organizing the group’s annual fashion show, “Fashionably Aware,” which will showcase both underground and established designers, models, artists, and performers of diverse backgrounds.
As if that’s not enough, Ayoni is also working on her third visual-conceptual collection for the VPA Senior Fashion Show this April. In her first semester, she designed three collections influenced by Audrey Hepburn, Theatre de la Mode, and Diana Vreeland.
She was also inspired by the more formal dress of the early to mid 1900s and the desire to deliver her own point of view by depicting life as art. Then, she will need to select six pieces to construct for next semester.
Did we also mention she’s a photographer? Ayoni is working on a photo collection with the theme “Exoticism,” or as she explained, “the exploitation of various culture by the fashion industry.”
With leadership experience, determination, talent, and a vast set of entrepreneurial skills, Ayoni seems to be well on her way to success. You better go, girl!
Her dream job: Incorporating fashion within her community while making a difference.
Why you should look out for her: She had a design sold in “Some Girl's Boutique” on Marshal Street, and has been featured on cnystyle.syr.edu.
This Designer’s Confidential: She’d rather be comfortable than follow what is “fly.”
- by Kareema Pinckney
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