After four ahem
less than ideal years of presidency under a certain person who shall NOT be named (hint: his name isn’t Voldemort), I think I speak for most people when I say the White House is in desperate need of a change! And thankfully, the time for change has come alongside Joe Biden securing his spot as the 46th president of the United States, Kamala Harris has made history as the first Black woman
and
to be elected vice
president of the United States of America. And she’s not the only one her husband, Doug Emhoff, is a legend in the making too.
As the chair of fashion at Ryerson University, advocate and educator Ben Barry has tirelessly championed a more conscious and inclusive approach within the modern fashion world. So, it’s not surprising that Barry announced last week that starting next fall, he would become the dean of fashion at The New School within New York’s Parsons School of Design.
While he will certainly be missed by Canadian creatives and others who have watched him help to transform our local fashion education system – including the hiring of thought-leaders like Fashion and Race Database founder Kimberly Jenkins, who joined Ryerson’s faculty earlier this year – Barry assures us that this new post will simply be an expansion and augmentation of the work he’s done in the style space so far.