The streetwear giant’s first creative director has departed the company following a clash that is steeped in what he calls “systemic racism” at the VF Corp-owned brand. He spoke to Vogue Business about his decision.
Born in Atlanta and raised in Jamaica in Queens, New York, Emory is a creative artist whose output is defined by his commitment to social justice and his experience as a Black man. As he toldlast July, when he was starting out in retail he would end his day hanging out in Union NYC, the seminal streetwear store co-founded by Jebbia and Mary Ann Fusco. Before taking a job with Marc Jacobs in 2006, he had been due to interview with Jebbia for a role at the store.
That role with Jacobs allowed him to move to London four years later after the murder of a friend, Rahim Grays, compelled him to leave New York. In London he connected with Acyde and together they founded the party-throwing and creative-consulting partnership No Vacancy Inn. Emory worked with Frank Ocean, Ye and Stussy before being inspired in 2019 to found his own clothing brand.
Speaking today at the end of his 18 months in Supreme, Emory said his immediate plan is to travel to Paris with his fiancée, Andee, and regroup. And he repeated: “I never did Supreme for the money… You know the week I started at Supreme, we dropped 5,000 pairs of denim on Denim Tears. It sold out in minutes and we took $1.7 million. My annual salary at Supreme was $600,000. I didn’t need to do it for money. I did it to change things.
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