The People's Runway will take place at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025 at Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza as part of New York Fashion Week. Five Brooklyn designers were selected from an open call after hundreds of applications were reviewed by Borough President Antonio Reynoso and Arts Ambassador Colm Dillane. Ahmrii Johnson blends Bahamian heritage, botanical science, and indigenous wisdom into narrative-driven garments that bridge art, fashion, and spiritual reflection. Daveed Baptiste draws on migration from Port-au-Prince to Miami to explore cultural preservation and African diasporic futures. Kent Anthony elevates Black creativity through luxury, intellectual storytelling, and Rojin Jung centers resilience and generational healing.
"The People's Runway" will take place at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 14, turning Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza into a catwalk where five Brooklyn fashion designers will showcase their creations. The designers answered the beep's open call for emerging designers earlier this year and made the cut after Reynoso and Dillane reviewed hundreds of applications.
Ahmrii Johnson, a Bahamian-American fashion designer and multidisciplinary artist, fuses Caribbean craft, botanical science, and indigenous wisdom into ethereal, narrative-driven designs . Johnson draws inspiration from her heritage, lived experiences, and biblical text, transforming textiles and garments into stories that bridge art, fashion, and spiritual reflection. Daveed Baptiste, an interdisciplinary designer and artist who incorporates fashion design, textile design, and photography, drawing inspiration from his migration from Port au-Prince, Haiti to Miami, Florida . He explores themes of migration and cultural preservation within the Haitian community and the larger Caribbean diaspora, reclaiming African diasporic futures and narratives.
Kent Anthony is an African American designer with a background in fine art and industrial design, who uses fashion design as a medium for storytelling, and elevating Black creativity within a luxury, intellectual framework. Rojin Jung's designs are rooted in a journey of self-discovery, resilience, and generational healing as a child of immigrants . Through his work, he encourages the audience to break out of patterns of living that trap them both physically and mentally.
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