The Morning Journal (Lorain, OH)
Terrance takes on New York Fashion Week
Lorain designer Jevon Terrance unveils his line of street fashion everyday wear on the New York fashion scene.
For the second time in six months, Lorain fashion designer Jevon Terance will travel to New York to show off his designs as a part of New York Fashion Week.
With a collection of 30 outfits split between two shows for Street Fashion Week, Terance said switching from dressy to street wear style will appeal to a more everyday audience.
“The last show I did was more glitz and glamour, more dressy,” he said. “So, this show is street wear, so it’s a good break, especially for our fan base to show them how we style street wear ... I am an everyday designer trying to sell pieces that people can wear every day.”
Having worked with Paris fashion producer Tiffany McCall during fashion week in
“The last show I did was more glitz and glamour, more dressy. So, this show is street wear...” — Lorain fashion designer Jevon Terance
September 2018, Terance now will collaborate with Cleveland-based fashion agency Bunny Paige and fashion producer
Dan Houseman for the upcoming shows.
“That was the first opportunity in September, so
I didn’t think or plan on going (to fashion week) in February,” Terance said.
By planning back-toback shows, he said the turnaround time to get another collection ready was short.
“It’s funny because I always know in the back of my head to start working on new pieces just to be safe, so that’s what I did,” Terance said. “You get that itch right after a big show, and you’re like ‘You’re supposed to be chilling or relaxing,’ and a week later, I was working again.”
For his newest collection for the show titled “Neon Tokyo,” Terance said he drew his inspiration from Japan.
“I always been inspired by Japanese culture,” he said. “I’ve never been to Japan, so I look at it like this is an interpretation of how I see it, so this is what the style is without being there.”
Terence said he hopes to take a trip to Tokyo within the next three years and to later do a part two collection once he’s experienced Japanese culture firsthand.
Additionally, Terance and his crew plan to document the trip to New York and all the behind-the-scenes action.
“My big idea is to show a designer documentary, either in 15 or 20 (years) at the (Lorain Palace Theater) and show how the fashion brand has been doing things in Ohio and around the world,” he said.