21
Sep
Berny Martin Founder of Catou Fashion/Midwest Fashion Week & Fashion Community Foundation
For as long as I can remember, I had a passion for fashion. Intrigued by fabric and colors, I began sketching women’s and men’s designs and eventually sewed my first original piece, a pair of jeans, all the age of eight years old. That was the moment, I knew I wanted to be a fashion designer and that was the beginning of Catou Fashion.
Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, fashion was not what my family anticipated for me, it to work in. It was not until I moved in 1991 when I was 15 years old to Brooklyn, NY and enrolled in college that I designed my first collection...
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