Fashion career profile

Kerby Jean-Raymond

Kerby Jean-Raymond is an American fashion designer and the founder of Pyer Moss, an independent art project working across fashion, film and sound. He began working in fashion as a teenager, apprenticing in Kay Unger’s atelier and later working at Marchesa and Theory; Pyer Moss was founded in 2013. The CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund named him its 2018 winner, following collections and presentations that brought Black American history and political life into the runway context. In 2020 he was named Reebok’s Vice President of Creative Direction, a corporate role spanning design, product, marketing and development beyond his own label. In 2021, Pyer Moss became the first Black-owned house to present on Paris’s official haute couture calendar. The available source confirms the Reebok appointment but not a reliable end date, so the role is recorded without implying current employment. His profile separates the label’s independent practice, the Reebok appointment and the couture-calendar milestone rather than combining them into a generic creative-director title.

Role
Founder & Creative Director, Pyer Moss
Nationality
American-Haitian
Age
40
Verified awards
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