I had the pleasure to sit down with Jasmin Shokrian one breezy summer afternoon in Los Angeles to talk about her newly launched Draft no17 collection and the trunk show that we are doing together. Over a glass of chilled Rose, I uncover that she has a fine arts back ground, her new blog that will documents her studio she works out of and her secret spots in Los Angeles.
JL: So you are going to do a trunk show with us on the 27th of August.
JS: Yes, we are very excited about it.
JL: Hopefully it will be fun and successful. So tell us a little bit about where you are from and how did you get into fashion design.
JS: I was born here in Los Angeles and grew up here mostly. I left many times. I went to a boarding school in Switzerland for a couple of years during high school, and college at the Arts Institute of Chicago.
JL: What was your major in college?
JS: Its an interdisciplinary school, that is why I chose to go there. I had originally applied to RIHS for apparel design but had decided to go to Art Institute instead because I wanted an interdisciplinary degree. I went there for painting mainly and studied film and sculpture as well.
Read the rest of the interview here.
