An interview with
April Douglass-Greene
by Morgan Hearn
Morgan - “What’s your name and how old are you?”
April - “Hi, my name is April Douglass-Greene, I’m eighteen years
old.”
Morgan - “What inspired you or led you to start fashion
design?”
April - “I was heavily inspired by my grandmothers, Bertha and
Jean. They have always had such a timeless and effortless sense
of style. Although they grew up in a much different time than I
have, it’s interesting to witness the same trends and styles come
back around and be enjoyed by my generation. I grew up shopping
almost exclusively in thrift stores, in high school I would buy gently
used clothing and upcycle it by taking some inches off the hem,
completely deconstructing a dress and putting it back together in a
different way, or adding some decorative trim to a neckline and
completely making it my own.”
Morgan - “How old were you when you started pursuing
fashion design?”
April - “Believe it or not, I was seven years old when I started
pursuing fashion design. I didn’t know there was a technical
name for it. But I always enjoyed rummaging through my older
sisters closets and putting together different outfits and sketching
my “looks”. I was also very inspired by my childhood toys from
the early 2000s. I loved Polly Pockets, Bratz dolls, My Scene
dolls, and Groovy Girls dolls. Oh and Betty Spaghetty dolls, I
almost forgot about them too. My favorite thing to do was line
them all up and have little fashion shows. I started sewing at ten
years old, the first thing I made on my own was an elastic waist
skirt and I was soooooo elated with the results. By middle school
I was designing and making my own clothing along with studying
numerous design and fashion textbooks, making my own spec
flats, cost sheets, and sewing patterns.
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