Jordynn Snyder
Hometown: Sugar Hill, Georgia
Email: jsnyder6@ncsu.edu & jordynnsny1836@gmail.com
Bio
Jordynn is from Sugar Hill, Georgia, a small town north of Atlanta. She learned to sew from her grandmother and draws deeply on her experience as a biracial woman in her designs. She joined NC State’s Wilson College of Textiles originally as a STEP student involved in the Fashion Design program. After entering the school, Snyder chose to join the FTM Brand major/concentration and switched to Product Development to strengthen her technical skills in her deepest creative passion. Snyder is involved in the Delta Zeta sorority, Order of Omega (the scholar society for members of Greek organizations), the Phi Psi Textile Fraternity as a Junior Warden tasked with recruitment events, and the African American Textile Society. Outside of campus, Snyder is a stylist/sales associate for Michael Kors and spent her summer working at the flagship store at Rockefeller Center, New York City. Jordynn enjoys the arts beyond fashion, especially with music and film, and desires to travel the world. Snyder describes her greatest goal as a designer as creating clothing that sees those who feel out of place and empowers consumers who do not fit within a societal box, as she felt during her upbringing.
Collection Concept
Unruly dances on the line between structure and chaos as a metaphorical vision of how society places the natural hair of African American women into a box of being unprofessional, untidy, and not fashionable. Jordynn draws on her own experience as she journeys to love her natural curls and shows how protective styles such as braids, and even embracing the space natural hair takes up, are artful in themselves. She also pays homage to the love and hard work that goes into caring for natural texture from generation to generation with her playful inclusion of beading and hair accessories. Unruly focus on highlighting fabric textures throughout the collection represents the diversity among the natural curl patterns found within the African American community and evokes the nostalgic feelings of a journey of bonding and self-discovery. The collection aims to portray pride in one’s crown as the world continues to try to diminish the power held in embracing one’s entirety.