{"id":2264,"date":"2021-10-22T16:11:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T16:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2021-10-23T02:48:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T02:48:29","slug":"le-karja-inspired-by-yaad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2264","title":{"rendered":"Le Karja Inspired by \u2018Yaad\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 24 years-old with a fledgling clothing line on the market, designer Dominique Donaldson is using social media to help break her <strong>Le Karja<\/strong> products in a competitive market. She launched the casual wear pieces in May 2020 shortly after graduating from New York\u2019s Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Le Karja<\/strong> is named for her mother, Karja, a Jamaican who also attended (FIT). \u201cI design for a new generation of young people who identify with both cultures and aren&#8217;t afraid to express that. My designs are bold, headstrong, and beautiful just like my customers,\u201d said Donaldson, who was born in New York. \u201cI connect with my shoppers through Instagram @Lekarja, Facebook, Twitter, and tik tok. Technology and social media have been the key to my success and as a Gen Zer, I wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Le Karja\u2019s<\/strong> catalog includes T-shirts, hoodies, sweatpants and swimwear which are inspired by her mother\u2019s hometown of Fletcher\u2019s Land, a gritty community in West Kingston, Jamaica. Through several visits there, Donaldson was introduced to the unique vibe of urban life in her parents\u2019 homeland.<\/p>\n<p>Her father is from Dunkirk, another tough Kingston enclave that has produced artists like Wayne Wonder, Spragga Benz and Agent Sasco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a product of Jamaica as a third generation \u2018Well-Cute Family\u2019 daughter (and) that fact will never go unowned. My clothing brand takes inspiration from all of this, all of the ups and downs and experiences of being a Jamaican in America,\u201d said Donaldson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 24 years-old with a fledgling clothing line on the market, designer Dominique Donaldson is using social media to help break her Le Karja products in a competitive market. She launched the casual wear pieces in May 2020 shortly after graduating from New York\u2019s Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). Le Karja is named for her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}