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Then she designed for Macy’s Icons of Style campaign. Simply put, Akers is the But Her Emails Shirt but in fact I love this face of the Booked and Busy movement right now, which brings us to the latest stop on her tour: Styling Zales’ Mother’s Day campaign. Ahead, Zerina Akers talks about navigating the fashion industry during her early days, collaborating with Zales, and Black Owned Everything’s next steps. How was last year both challenging and rewarding for you? Challenging because a lot of people were affected in a negative way. A lot of my friends lost their parents or grandparents, lost a lot of people in their family, and trying to navigate through all of that. Rewarding because I was able to do so many different things and work on so many different projects. I’m thankful for the time I was able to create cool content with Chloe and Halle on their tennis court; designing and collaborating with Macy’s, starting a foundation. Without the lockdown, I probably have had the time to dig into what made that happen. At what age were you aware that fashion could be more than just putting on clothes, but something that could be a viable career?

I think it kind of came in different phases. When I was about four years old, my parents put me in an Easter dress that I never wanted to take off. They had to practically hide the But Her Emails Shirt but in fact I love this dress from me because I wanted to go to the playground in it and wear it all the time. That was the moment I realized clothes make you feel good. And I’m still that way to this day. If I find something I love, I just wear it all the time. We tend to not wear our clothes because we want to save them for a special occasion and you never even get to enjoy them. I want that feeling all the time, to actually fully enjoy clothes. I remember being in middle school, looking at fashion magazines, and wanting to name the brand and name the designers before I looked at the credit. I would kind of quiz myself and play around like that. When I became aware that I was actually entering the industry and realizing its depth and how much you really could do, I truly didn’t learn until I became an intern at W Magazine. That for sure was like, Oh, okay, you can do this, moment.

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