In this exclive terview, we speak to Rachel A. Fenrson (she/her, a fashn signer, historian, curator, and bgrapher who has dited much of her reer the past few years to archivg the history of Jay Jaxon (b. 1941), a gay black fashn signer om Queens, New York.
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