Tommy Hilfiger’s New Legacy Problem, a design competitors developed by the Peoples Place Program in partnership with Harlem’s Style Row, has chosen its three finalists out of the highest 12 candidates. The partnership, established final 12 months, goals to advertise the upcoming era of Black designers by means of a platform devoted to amplifying their expertise and imaginative and prescient.

The winner of the New Legacy Problem will obtain a grant for $20,000 and the chance to codesign a capsule assortment alongside the Tommy Hilfiger design crew.

Every finalist, with the steerage of a Tommy Hilfiger mentor, will reimagine six iconic prep kinds, together with the hoodie, the spring varsity jacket and the polo. The designers will current their last collections to a panel of jury members in March, which shall be adopted by an occasion to announce and have a good time the profitable designer.

The occasion may also embrace a premiere of the brand new Legacy Problem docuseries, directed by award-winning filmmaker Luchina Fisher, that may take the viewers behind the scenes and share an inside take a look at how every designer was impressed to strategy the problem.

The finalists are Megan Smith, founding father of Megan Renee, a sustainable girls’s modern model that pulls inspiration from her travels; Johnathan Hayden, whose namesake model balances his interplay/UX design background with a blended cultural identification to create versatile separates for ladies, and Clarence Ruth, whose label Cotte D’Armes explores denim from a contemporary vantage level with all all denim-based assortment of bottoms, tops and outerwear whereas fusing navy with a touch of streetwear and biker stylish.

The designers will take the stage at Harlem’s Style Row’s fourth annual Black Historical past Month Summit on Feb. 15 to share their expertise and journey with the New Legacy Problem.

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