{"id":57,"date":"2019-02-27T16:24:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2019-03-21T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:42:08","slug":"fashion-designer-kirsten-ley-on-diversity-i-love-using-models-of-every-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/fashion-designer-kirsten-ley-on-diversity-i-love-using-models-of-every-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion designer Kirsten Ley on Diversity: \u2018I love using models of every background\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><div id=\"metaslider-id-215\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-20-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-215 ml-slider\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_215\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_215\">\n            <ul aria-live=\"polite\" class=\"slides\">\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-216 ms-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/kl-300x700.jpeg\" height=\"700\" width=\"300\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-215 slide-216\" title=\"kl\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-217 ms-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/kl2-300x700.jpeg\" height=\"700\" width=\"300\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-215 slide-217\" title=\"kl2\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-218 ms-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/kl3-300x700.jpeg\" height=\"700\" width=\"300\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-215 slide-218\" title=\"kl3\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-219 ms-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/kl4-300x700.jpeg\" height=\"700\" width=\"300\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-215 slide-219\" title=\"kl4\" \/><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Ley is a Canadian couture designer who recently moved her line to Paris.&nbsp; In just 12 months, she has participated in seven international shows, displaying three collections.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I had the opportunity to interview Ley at New York Fashion Week, and she talked to me about her latest venture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI moved to Paris with my labels three and a half months ago,\u201d she said. \u201c\u2026 It\u2019s kind of been this rebirth of my brand, and so I (titled) this collection \u2018Naissance,\u2019 which means birth in French.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the diversity of models displayed in her line, Ley said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find that my brand has a lot of dichotomy, and I love using a wide color palette. I love using models of every background and ethnicity and race and it just really speaks to me because I love having everyone a part of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirsten Ley is a Canadian couture designer who recently moved her line to Paris.&nbsp; In just 12 months, she has participated in seven international shows, displaying three collections. Last week, I had the opportunity to interview Ley at New York Fashion Week, and she talked to me about her latest venture. \u201cI moved to Paris &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/fashion-designer-kirsten-ley-on-diversity-i-love-using-models-of-every-background\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fashion designer Kirsten Ley on Diversity: \u2018I love using models of every background\u2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}