Meet Alton Shedrick Jr | Business Owner & Fashion Designer

We had the good fortune of connecting with Alton Shedrick Jr and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Alton, what do you want your legacy to be?
I want my legacy and to be remembered as being someone who took risk to create opportunities for others. In todays society people are often judged and overlooked based off of the amount of followers that they have not realizing that followers doesn’t mean anything. So I take risk so that I can create opportunities for others so that they get a chance to do the same thing with just a few thousand followers as someone who has millions of followers. Everyone who I gave a chance to be apart of my brand (whether it was to shoot for it or be a brand ambassador) I seen greatness in them before the world got to see how great they are.

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
Fashion is art. Fashion gives you the freedom to express yourself. Each collection that I create gives me the opportunity to express myself even more. There’s only one me which automatically sets me apart from others. Creating pieces for collections isn’t easy as it seems. Often I have times where I have creators block which is a normal thing for creatives. How I get past creators block is by getting out of the house to live in the moment and enjoy life. While I’m out, I look at pieces from what others are wearing to see what styles they like and it gets my mind going. Then when I start creating from the influence that I get, I go back to the brands that I seen them wear to help prevent any copying so that I can stick out and remain original as possible. I want the world to know that you don’t have to wear designer brands to be cool. Clothes don’t make you, you make the clothes. As long as you look good, you feel good. And when you feel good, you’re at your best. So I created my brand for those who might not be able to afford designer or don’t want to spend designer prices and provide the same fashionable looks with the same high end quality at an affordable price.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
Downtown, Midtown and Hyde Park. From shopping, to fine dining with great food, to an amazing and relaxing atmosphere, these areas are always a go-to for fun.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I would like to give a shoutout to my team who all played a part of my success so far. I’m blessed and thankful to not only have them apart of my team, but apart of my life as well. They are all goal driven with their own thing from business, to content creating to modeling. I couldn’t have asked for anyone better.

– My mom Sherell Shedrick (Owner of @ZanellieEssentials Haircare Products)
– Taqueisha Gilchrist (@PrettyGirl_Que Owner of @RollzUp_Tampa Eggrolls)
– Keith Brown (@WhoIsKeefy) Fashion Model
– Yan Lopez (@YaniiVisuals) Director/A&R/Manager
– Ezekiel Udozorh (@EzekielUdozorh) D1 Basketball Prospect/Brand Ambassador
– Anthoni Tardy (@AyJayTee) Recording Artist/TikTok Influencer/YouTuber/Fashion Model/Brand Ambassador
– Yungeen C3 (@Yungeen_C3) Recording Artist/Brand Ambassador
– Giovanni Croft (@Giovanni.Btw) Model/Fashion Model
– WilloStackz (@WilloStackz) YouTuber/Influencer

Website: www.dejardworld.com

Instagram: @1loothunter.aj @dejardworld

Other: TikTok: @Dejardworld

Image Credits
@YaniiVisuals