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Bushwick’s Own Brandon Blackwood Premieres His Handbag Collection at NY Fashion Week

The local designer describes what it was like to get started in an unforgiving industry.

By Danielle Sinay

Sept. 12, 2017 · 4 min read

Fashion and Shopping

Bushwick’s Own Brandon Blackwood Premieres His Handbag Collection at NY Fashion Week

The local designer describes what it was like to get started in an unforgiving industry.

Danielle Sinay September 12, 2017Sep 12, 2017 · 4 min read

Brandon Blackwood, Jamaican-Chinese handbag designer and Bed-Stuy/Bushwick resident, embodies the Brooklyn ideal: authentic, ambitious, cutting-edge yet pragmatic. And today, Sept. 12, his brand will be celebrating its official premiere at New York Fashion Week at MILK Studios. We’ve got a feeling it won’t be the brand’s last Fashion Week presentation.

“Brandon Blackwood, as a brand, is what I call New York City Luxury,” Blackwood tells Bushwick Daily…

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