Jeremy Scott (born August 8, 1975) is an American
fashion design
Fashion design is the art of applying design, aesthetics, clothing construction and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories. It is influenced by culture and different trends, and has varied over time and place. "A fashion designer creates c ...
er. He is the creative director of the fashion house
Moschino
Moschino () is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1983 by Franco Moschino in Milan known for over-the-top, campy designs. The company specializes in ready-to-wear, handbags, and fashion accessories.
History Founding and 1990s
Franco ...
and the sole owner of his namesake label.
Since launching his brand in
Paris
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in 1997, Scott has built a reputation as "pop culture’s most irreverent designer",
and "fashion's last rebel".
Known for his designs of clothes, accessories and footwear for
Adidas and
Moschino
Moschino () is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1983 by Franco Moschino in Milan known for over-the-top, campy designs. The company specializes in ready-to-wear, handbags, and fashion accessories.
History Founding and 1990s
Franco ...
, Scott has consistently worked with various celebrities such as
Björk
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,
Madonna,
Katy Perry
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,
CL and
2NE1
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,
Nicki Minaj
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,
Fergie,
Beyoncé,
Lady Gaga
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,
Ariana Grande
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,
Kanye West
Ye ( ; born Kanye Omari West ; June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.
Born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago, West gained recognition as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records in the ea ...
,
Miley Cyrus
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,
Demi Lovato
Demetria Devonne Lovato ( ; born August 20, 1992), known as Demi Lovato, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. After appearing on the children's television series ''Barney & Friends'' (2002–2004), Lovato rose to prominence for pl ...
,
Selena Gomez,
Justin Bieber
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,
ASAP Rocky
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,
M.I.A.,
Rita Ora
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,
Cardi B
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, and
Grimes.
As an early proponent of blending high fashion with
street style, he creates designs often incorporating
pop-culture
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icons.
Early life and education
Scott was born in 1975 in
Kansas City, Missouri. He grew up partly on a farm in
Lowry City and partly in a suburb outside Kansas City. Jeremy was interested in fashion from an early age. At 14, he began studying French and took night courses in Japanese because he was determined to become a fashion designer. In high school, he drew fashion in his notebooks and was bullied because of his dressing style. He discovered
runway
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fashion in ''
Details'', looking up to
Jean Paul Gaultier
Jean Paul Gaultier (; born 24 April 1952) is a French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer. He is described as an " enfant terrible" of the fashion industry and is known for his unconventional designs with motifs including cors ...
,
Martin Margiela,
Thierry Mugler, and
Franco Moschino as role models. In 1992, Scott moved to New York to study
fashion design
Fashion design is the art of applying design, aesthetics, clothing construction and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories. It is influenced by culture and different trends, and has varied over time and place. "A fashion designer creates c ...
at
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was founded in 1887 ...
, one of the city's Art and Design colleges, where he wore
sci-fi
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-inspired clothes, "1880s vs 1980s" outfits, and shredded and decaying clothes. Scott did an internship in the New York offices of
Aeffe, the company that owns
Moschino
Moschino () is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1983 by Franco Moschino in Milan known for over-the-top, campy designs. The company specializes in ready-to-wear, handbags, and fashion accessories.
History Founding and 1990s
Franco ...
.
Career
Debut in Paris
After graduating in 1996, Scott moved to Paris. While looking for a job in the fashion industry, he was forced to scrounge meals and sleep in the Metro. When he ran into a PR for
Jean Paul Gaultier
Jean Paul Gaultier (; born 24 April 1952) is a French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer. He is described as an " enfant terrible" of the fashion industry and is known for his unconventional designs with motifs including cors ...
who liked his hair (Scott cut his own hair since he was five), he got a job promoting parties at a nightclub. Not having any luck with fashion jobs, he decided to create his own brand.
The following season, in 1997, Jeremy Scott, the brand, made its debut in a bar near
Bastille. The show was based on the
J. G. Ballard
James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist known for provocative works of fiction which explored the relations between human psychology, technology, sex, and mass me ...
book
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and
David Cronenberg
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film ''
Crash'', with most of the material coming from paper hospital gowns. Scraps of fabric from the
Porte de Clignancourt flea market
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resembling garbage bags were used in the follow-up show, all in black, which was described by Scott as "Blade Runner, trash bags and the apocalypse." The collection was later exhibited in the influential Parisian shop
Colette
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her ...
, which has carried Jeremy Scott ever since.
His third collection, all in white, was a critical hit. It won awards and attracted
Mario Testino, the editor of
French Vogue
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History 1920–54
The French edition of ''Vogue'' was first issued on 15 June 1920, the first editor-in-chief ...
, and
Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele
Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele is a French stylist, art director and photographer.
Life and work
de Dudzeele grew up in Saint-Tropez, in the south of France, as well as in Paris, where she received a strict education and observed the mix of haute cout ...
, a French stylist, art director and photographer.
The white show was the first runway appearance of the soon-to-be-supermodel
Devon Aoki, who was only 13 at the time.
(Twenty years later, the pair would collaborate again on Scott's Autumn/Winter 2016 campaign.
)
Björk
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was an early adopter, wearing an angel dress from the white show for her
Homogenic world tour. Scott would provide costumes on several of her tours.
In the same year, Scott made a show about 1980s decadence (sable, shoulder pads, big hair, gold lamé) as maybe the first designer to revive
the eighties. The models' unbalanced heels were designed by
Christian Louboutin. Opposing the prevalent minimalism, the show was panned by Vogue and others. Scott himself considers "the gold show" as the hardest moment of his career.
HIs 1998 spring collection titled "Duty Free Glamour" featured flight-attendant inspired looks and khaki jackets plastered with logos. Writing in ''
The Times
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'', the fashion critic
Cathy Horyn pointed out the original use of the experience of a
Midwesterner
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as a foil to
jet set glamour.
Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Otto Lagerfeld (; 10 September 1933 – 19 February 2019) was a German fashion designer, creative director, artist and photographer.
He was known as the creative director of the French fashion house Chanel, a position held from 1983 u ...
said that Scott was the only person working in fashion who could take over
Chanel after he left.
In 2001 Scott left Paris for
Los Angeles
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. It was seen as a surprising move, since Los Angeles was not yet a fashion capital at the time.
The Adidas collaboration
Scott had cemented his reputation as a cult label with fervid fans, particularly in Asia,
but he was still on the fringe of the fashion establishment, as he was considered neither "serious" nor "commercial".
He closed one show in 2001 by throwing fake banknotes with his face printed on them into the audience. At the close of another show, he shouted: "''Vive l’
avant-garde
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!''", and left yellow T-shirts stamped with the message on every seat.
In 2006, Scott started his ongoing collaboration with the French leather-goods company
Longchamp, which makes bags for front-row guests at his fashion shows.
Scott first worked with Adidas in 2002 for the "!Signed" project, for which he created a silk jacquard with a motif of money scattered around with his own likeness replacing that of
George Washington. The design was on the Adidas classic high top model, the Forum. The shoe was handmade in the Adidas factory in
Scheinfeld
Scheinfeld is a town in the Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 14 km northwest of Neustadt (Aisch), and 40 km east of Würzburg. Schloss Schwarzenberg is adjacent to the town. The town is hom ...
, Germany. There were only 100 pairs made: 50 went to Scott and 50 went to Adidas. Scott would revisit the design with Money Wings 2.0 in Fall/Winter 2013.
However, his best-known Adidas collaboration came in 2008, when
Adidas Originals launched Scott's collection of footwear and apparel that included JS Wings (winged high-tops) and JS Bears (furry sneakers with teddy bear heads). With early co-signs from rappers like
Lil Wayne, Scott's footwear gained him mass appeal. His sneakers are considered "some of the most eye-catching sneakers ever seen", making "an indisputable imprint on the shoe landscape".
Over the years, his iconic wings adorned many different Adidas silhouettes. He also applied them to other objects for other clients, including
Smart cars and baby prams.
He collaborated with
Swatch in 2011, creating three watch designs that were hailed as the return of Swatch to its "uber-fun Eighties roots" with Scott's "pop aesthetic, fun twist and overstated form".
Scott starred in the Adidas 2012 print and video campaign with
Nicki Minaj
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,
Sky Ferreira
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and
2NE1
2NE1 (, ) was a South Korean girl group formed by YG Entertainment, which was active between 2009 and 2016. The group was composed of four members: Bom, CL, Dara, and Minzy. Known for breaking typical stereotypes of K-pop, musical experim ...
.
Madonna's dancers in the 2012
Super Bowl halftime show
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wore Jeremy Scott track suits for Adidas Originals.
In June 2012, Adidas decided that a pair of
sneaker
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s designed by Scott called the ''JS Roundhouse Mids'' would not be sold after the shoes were criticised for their bright yellow handcuffs which, as some believed, were "shackles" alluding to slavery. Scott denied that the shoes had anything to do with slavery, stating it was a reference to the children's toy
My Pet Monster.
For his Fall 2012 collection, Scott introduced 1990s nostalgia, with several computer references like a printed gloved-hand cursor and '90s-era
Mac screenshots. He made a show-closing homage to
Lisa Frank with a vacuum-formed plexiglass bustier encrusted in hundreds of Frank stickers.
In February 2013, Scott plagiarized designs from
Santa Cruz Skateboards. Santa Cruz and Scott reached a settlement whereby Scott ceased production of his collection.
He debuted his first fragrance for Adidas on February 1, 2015, in a glass replica of his Adidas winged sneakers.
In the 2016 film ''
Suicide Squad
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'', the character
Harley Quinn
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wears high-top heels from Jeremy Scott's 2014 collaboration with Adidas.
Creative director at Moschino
In October 2013 Scott became
Moschino
Moschino () is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1983 by Franco Moschino in Milan known for over-the-top, campy designs. The company specializes in ready-to-wear, handbags, and fashion accessories.
History Founding and 1990s
Franco ...
's creative director. After turning down several other offers, he chose the Italian label because it had a similarly irreverent approach, its founder
Franco Moschino seeing fashion as a form of protest.
After redesigning the entire Pre-Fall collection, Scott showed his first Moschino collection in fall 2014.
He re-told the fashion gags of Franco Moschino (rubbish bags, witty slogans, beefeater hats) through the eyes of an American (
McDonald's
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handbags, popcorn dresses, nutrition-label ballgowns,
SpongeBob SquarePants
''SpongeBob SquarePants'' (or simply ''SpongeBob'') is an American Animated series, animated Television comedy, comedy Television show, television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. It ...
fur coats).
An example of his proceeding was a vis-a-vis jacket in McDonald's colors (ketchup-red and bright yellow) with a matching quilted leather handbag bearing a golden "M" in the shape of a heart.
His first Moschino fragrance was called Moschino Toy. The bottle literally looked like a
teddy bear
A teddy bear is a stuffed toy in the form of a bear. Developed apparently simultaneously by toymakers Morris Michtom in the U.S. and Richard Steiff under his aunt Margarete Steiff's company in Germany in the early 20th century, the teddy be ...
, with the spray nozzle under its head.
In his 2015 manifesto in ''
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide ...
'', Scott described his approach to American
consumer culture: "An image of
Mickey Mouse is understood in Mumbai, Timbuktu and Los Angeles in the same way. It’s a clear message even if you subvert it by, say, putting Mickey ears on an army helmet (as I did in 2007)... A lot of my collections are informed by nostalgia."
In fact, his fashion is often humorous: a 2016 show included a handbag that looked like a box of
Marlboro Reds and bore the warning ''Fashion Kills''.
In August 2015, Scott was sued along with Moschino for copyright infringement in relation to the Moschino Fall/Winter 2015 clothing line. The garments in question included "literal copies" of the plaintiff's work, according to the original complaint filed. The suit was settled out of court.
His Moschino Fall/Winter 2016 collection was inspired by the
Florentine Bonfire of the Vanities of 1497. Dresses featured shards of mirrors, a fallen grand chandelier, and the innards of a destroyed grand piano. In a technical first, a few dresses were followed by trails of smoke on the runway because of integrated smoke machines inside them.
At the same time, the Fall 2016 collection of his personal brand in New York included cartoony
Max Headroom and
rockabilly
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guitar prints, glitzy high-heeled cowboy boots, and cow print denim. It was called "Cowboys and Poodles" after a vintage store on
Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles that introduced the 1950s
rockabilly
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culture to the 1980s
punks.
Scott created a TV commercial for the Moschino
Barbie doll, which he wrote and art-directed, based on toy commercials of the eighties and nineties. It attracted attention as the first Barbie commercial to feature a boy.
For the Moschino Spring/Summer 2017 collection, Scott commented on the internet generation's fixation on 2D screens. He used
trompe-l'œil
''Trompe-l'œil'' ( , ; ) is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. ''Trompe l'oeil'', which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into ...
techniques to render Moschino's gold accessories, leather jackets, and larger-than-life branding in 2D, including life-sized pull tabs and stuck-on accessories of paper dolls of old.
Scott has been credited with reviving the Moschino brand, boosting its sales and turning it into a fan favorite.
Designing for celebrities
An important part of Scott's work has been outfitting show business celebrities such as
Beyoncé,
Rihanna
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,
Lady Gaga
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, and
Nicki Minaj
Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty (; born December 8, 1982), known professionally as Nicki Minaj ( ), is a Trinidadian-born rapper based in the United States. She is known for her musical versatility, animated flow in her rapping, alter egos and accents. ...
. Some of them, like
Katy Perry
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. Known for her influence on modern pop music and her campy style, she has been referred to ...
,
Miley Cyrus
Miley Ray Cyrus ( ; born Destiny Hope Cyrus on November 23, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her distinctive raspy voice, her music spans across varied styles and genres, including pop, country, rock, hip hop ...
, and
CL, have collaborated with him so frequently that they have earned the nickname "the Jezza posse".
Scott described his work with celebrities: "I understand the language of pop culture, and these people are totems of pop culture."
In January 2015, Scott created the costumes for the Super Bowl XLIX Half Time show performance of pop star
Katy Perry
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. Known for her influence on modern pop music and her campy style, she has been referred to ...
. Perry introduced his custom bustier on the cover of ''
Rolling Stone
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''.
The designer and the singer started collaborating ten years earlier, before Perry's first album came out.
Rihanna
Robyn Rihanna Fenty ( ; born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer, actress, and businesswoman. Born in Saint Michael and raised in Bridgetown, Barbados, Rihanna auditioned for American record producer Evan Rogers who invited her to t ...
wore Jeremy Scott denim bra top and circle skirt in the "
We Found Love" music video.
The retro-futuristic stewardess frock worn by
Britney Spears
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in her "
Toxic
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" video was made by Scott.
He designed Lady Gaga's outfit in "Paparazzi".
For the 2015
Metropolitan Museum of Art's Anna Wintour Costume Center gala, Scott dressed
Perry, as well as
Madonna, whom he considers the original music/fashion icon.
At the 2016 Met Gala, his outfits were worn by
Nicki Minaj
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and
Demi Lovato
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.
Scott dressed
The Muppets' Miss Piggy for a photoshoot with
Kermit the Frog
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as
Andy Warhol
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. He has dressed Piggy on more than one occasion, including her front row appearance at his fashion show and for
The Muppets world premiere.
As the creative director for
MTV Video Music Award
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s 2015, he redesigned the Moonman statuette.
Scott has been called fashion's equivalent of
Andy Warhol
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.
''The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined'', a British exhibition themed around different concepts of vulgarity, included Scott's sweet wrapper-themed dresses alongside Warhol's Souper Dress in the
pop art-centric "Too Popular" section.
Film ''Jeremy Scott: The People's Designer''
''Jeremy Scott: The People's Designer'' is a 2015 documentary film directed by
Vlad Yudin detailing the life of Scott and his rise in the fashion industry. It was released on September 18, 2015. It features appearances by
Katy Perry
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. Known for her influence on modern pop music and her campy style, she has been referred to ...
,
Rihanna
Robyn Rihanna Fenty ( ; born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer, actress, and businesswoman. Born in Saint Michael and raised in Bridgetown, Barbados, Rihanna auditioned for American record producer Evan Rogers who invited her to t ...
,
Miley Cyrus
Miley Ray Cyrus ( ; born Destiny Hope Cyrus on November 23, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her distinctive raspy voice, her music spans across varied styles and genres, including pop, country, rock, hip hop ...
,
Rita Ora
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,
Paris Hilton
Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American media personality, businesswoman, socialite, model, and entertainer. Born in New York City, and raised there and in Beverly Hills, California, she is a great-granddaughter of Conr ...
,
ASAP Rocky
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and
CL from
2NE1
2NE1 (, ) was a South Korean girl group formed by YG Entertainment, which was active between 2009 and 2016. The group was composed of four members: Bom, CL, Dara, and Minzy. Known for breaking typical stereotypes of K-pop, musical experim ...
.
Awards and honors
Scott won the
ANDAM Fashion Award in 2000
and the Womenswear Designer of the Year award at the Annual Fashion Los Angeles Awards in 2015.
He won the Venus de la Mode award for best new designer in 1998 and 1999 for his second and third collections
and was nominated for Best Young Designer of 1999 by the
Council of Fashion Designers of America.
Scott was the featured Guest Designer at the 88th
Pitti Uomo, Florence's premier bi-annual menswear tradeshow. His Adidas sneakers were included in the
Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown ...
’s "The Rise of Sneaker Culture" exhibit.
He has agreed to hold a retrospective of his fashions at the
Dallas Contemporary museum in 2017, on the 20th anniversary of his debut.
Personal life
Jeremy's parents are Jim, an engineer, and Sandy, a teacher. Jeremy has two older siblings, Barbara, a lawyer, and James.
Since he began designing, members of his family have attended almost every show.
Scott owns two houses designed by
John Lautner: the Foster-Carling House (1947) in the
Hollywood Hills
The Hollywood Hills are a residential neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.
Geography
The Hollywood Hills straddle the Cahuenga Pass within the Santa Monica Mountains.
The neighborhood touches Studio City, Unive ...
and the Elrod House (1969) in
Palm Springs
Palm Springs (Cahuilla: ''Séc-he'') is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Colorado Desert's Coachella Valley. The city covers approximately , making it the largest city in Riverside County by lan ...
.
He is a vegetarian.
Jeremy Scott is
gay and has been open about his sexuality since the age of 14.
Jeremy Scott Pride
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References
External links
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1975 births
Living people
American fashion designers
American pop artists
High fashion brands
LGBT fashion designers
LGBT people from Missouri
Artists from Kansas City, Missouri
Pratt Institute alumni
People from Lowry City, Missouri