The man behind Brooklyn’s own Fashion Week
For the past 13 years, while New York Fashion Week’s high-profile, high-priced events dazzle the industry elite across the East River, a smaller, more inclusive affair takes place in Brooklyn.
Rick Davy runs Fashion Week Brooklyn, a product of Davy’s BK Style Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on building fashion entrepreneurship in the low-income community. It’s uniquely Brooklyn counter-programming that aims to level the playing field within the 76-year-old largely Manhattan-centric affair.
“I’m all about the community, especially the low-income community, to help some of our people who are really talented,” said Davy. “The black designers who didn’t have that kind of money to pay to get into New York Fashion Week needed a space.”