Meet Dao-Yi Chow, one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People 2015

For putting street wear on the runway

Dao-Yi Chow, along with Maxwell Osborne, started the menswear line Public School in 2008 with one goal: elevating the grittiness of New York City street life to the high-fashion world. The born-and-bred New Yorkers’ vision was the perfect counterpoint to high-end designer attempts to translate their fashions to a street sensibility, and held a more authentic, all-black-everything appeal. Over the past year, they’ve doubled their staff and designed their first women’s collection.

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Dao-Yi Chow

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