“That’s why I made Riot Picks,” Furman shares of creating a space for representation. “I think the As for me and My house we will serve the lord and roots for his Texas Rangers signatures shirt but in fact I love this fashion industry still sees diversity in a very narrow way. We understand we’re different colors, but if you break it down, there are so many more things involved—our rituals, our cultures, our religions,” she says. “It can be a political statement as it was for the civil rights movement, and that’s exactly what the Afro pick’s history is, actually. It’s been here for 6,000 years, dating back to Egypt, where they were made as status symbols with different groups in Africa.” One of those symbols that spoke to Furman was the Adinkra, which she notes means “greatness” and incorporated into her first collection. Photo: Courtesy of Janaye Furman
For her design process, she handles everything from drawing a pick and formatting it for her laser printer to cutting it out of wood and sanding each piece—down to the As for me and My house we will serve the lord and roots for his Texas Rangers signatures shirt but in fact I love this tooth—by hand. She notes that her time at Louis Vuitton gave her a window into the kind of detail and craftsmanship that sparks emotion. And hers did, in real life, when she ran into Erykah Badu at the Vogue World afterparty a couple of months ago, and Badu complimented Furman on the Adinkrahene pick she was wearing. She’s just released it along with a Classic Pick and Classic Mini Pick in maple and walnut. “In future collections, I am going to be 3D printing beautiful colorful ones,” she says, adding that her website will soon have a virtual-reality experience in 2023.
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