Keira L. Flood

Bio: Hello World! My name is Keira Lashan Flood and I am 20 years old. I am a junior at Meredith College where my major is Fashion Merchandising and Design-Design Concentration and my minor is Marketing.

I am from Ahoskie, N.C. where I was born and raised but I have been living in the Raleigh/Durham area for some time now. I discovered my interest in designing at the age of 12 when I began to develop my first collection of sketches in a blue notebook that I still have and use to this day. At first my mother only taught me to hand stitch and hand sew things that needed mending and then I started cutting up and recreating my old clothes to make new ones. I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to be in Redress Raleigh this year for the first time! I love the idea of taking everyday items found in the home and using them to construct garments. Fashion can come from anything around us with the right ideas and proper direction and execution. That is why for my collection I am using some of my grandmother’s old curtains to construct my pieces. Instead of throwing out things when they get old we can use them to make new items that can be useful to us. It is my responsibility to use my creativity to come up with new ways in which I can help protect my planet by being less wasteful and environmentally conscious.