He's already dressed some BIG names
Show attendees have Michelle Obama to thank for Sergio Hudson's New York Fashion Week debut. The designer has created pieces for the former first lady two times in the past year — gigs that, he says, were the catalyst for his first show."After we dressed her the second time, I started getting RSVPs to my September show… that I wasn't having," Hudson says, laughing, to NYLON.
Hudson doesn't remember a time when he wasn't interested in fashion. Growing up, his mom was a tailor and his sister was a model. Vogue magazines were littered around the house, and photos of Naomi Campbell decorated his walls. It was around four or five years old when he realized he wanted to be a designer; at the age of 10, he was designing gowns for his mother's clients. You could say the gift of style runs in his family, but Hudson thinks it's more that he was born into it.
After attending design school in Atlanta, Hudson worked privately with custom clientele creating conservative and wedding dresses — work which, he says,"I hate to do." But hailing from the South , this is what he was offered. So, he took what he could get."You have to pay the bills, and that was the only fashion industry where I was from," he says.
And who is he now, seven years later? Well, he's someone whose pieces include tailored pantsuits and slinky silhouetted dresses. He's someone whose creations have been worn by celebrities like Beyoncé, Demi Lovato, Rihanna, Janelle Monáe, and Kendall Jenner. More than anything, he's someone who dresses women looking to stand out."The Sergio woman, when she walks into the room, all eyes are going to turn," he says.
While Hudson understands that, if you want to be a designer, putting on a show during New York Fashion Week is almost a given , it wasn't exactly a career fantasy of his. One was dressing his dream client, Iman, which he's done a couple of times now."Growing up idolizing that woman, and for her to reach out to me and to want to order pieces from me, was very humbling," he says."I cried for hours.
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