JAMÉT JACKSON Fashion Designer

Jamét has been interested in fashion ever since she was young. Dressing up dolls in spare fabric and ribbons, drawing constantly and dressing creatively gave her an outlet for her creative impulses. Always being a little different, she found drawing fashion figures attracted positive reactions. She kept at it and progressed, taking art, photography and fashion merchandising classes along the way. In the Mass Communications specialty center at Manchester High School, she learned her way around adobe creative suite and developed a love for graphic design. As an amateur, she constructed a several garments for 2 fashion shows at her high school. After applying to Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts, she was accepted and completed the first year of Art Foundations exposing her to new types of art and allowed her to sharpen her technical and creative art skills. During this year she designed and constructed a few garments for a local fashion show named STRUT. At the end of her freshmen year, she was accepted into her first choice department, the Department of Fashion Design and Merchandising. Participating constantly and absorbing everything, she grew in her illustration, design, and construction skills. All of her junior submissions to the departmental show, CATALYST, were entered in. As a senior, her collection was selected to be showcased internationally in the VCU Qatar campus show in Doha, Qatar and in its entirety in the department show,IMPACT on the Richmond campus. The culmination of her growth, hard work, perseverance and design excellence was manifested in her being awarded the Outstanding Senior Award.