My name is Alinda Saintval I was born November 20, 1996 (22) in Delray Beach, Florida. My younger sister and I are daughters to Haitian parents and raised in Florida…
The Victor Glemaud collection debuted in 2006 and since then has reached new customer bases while garnering press accolades, from WWD and Vogue to the New York Times and Senken…
Prajjé Oscar. Jean Baptiste, is a Haitian born, New York¬ based fashion designer. Becoming a fashion designer was Prajjé’s childhood dream. Having been adopted as a child by his French…
Pyer Moss was founded in 2013 by Kerby Jean-Raymond. The project began as an experiment to reinterpret nostalgic cues from the designers childhood starting with classic athletic gear and sports…
OUR BUSINESS Azéde Jean-Pierre is an independent women’s ready-to-wear design label based in New York city. The namesake was founded in February of 2012 & walks the line between fashion…
WYCLEF JEAN (1969 – ) Wyclef Jean is a Haitian musician who ascended to stardom in the 1990s as a member of the remarkably successful hip-hop trio the Fugees.…
PIERRE TOUSSAINT (1766 – 1853) Pierre Toussaint was born into slavery around 1766 in Haiti, when it was still a French colony. The man who owned him, Monsieur Bérard,…
PATRICK GASPARD (1967 – ) Patrick Gaspard is the Vice President of the Open Society Foundations. Prior to this role, he was a key figure in U.S. President Barack…
JEREMIAH HAMILTON (1806 – 1875) Jeremiah Hamilton was Wall Street’s first Black millionaire, and the only African American broker to join mid-19th-century New York’s millionaire’s club. He escaped Haiti…
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960 – 1988) Jean-Michel Basquiat was an artist who became one of the most celebrated American “naif” painters of the Neo-Expressionism art movement in the 1980s. Basquiat…