Adreain Guillory
History with The Curio:
Adreain Guillory (Ajovang) was a featured designer in our 2023 Fashion Show, “A Celebration of Chicago Style.” Learn more about the show here.
Recent News:
Ajovang presented Whispers of the Unknown on February 20, 2025 at the Epiphany Center For The Arts, show casing a collection that was inspired by fairytale illustrations and the natural world, the designs married romanticism with both modern and historical elements.
Designer Bio:
Adreain is a young African American Demi-Couture Designer from Michigan. Adreain draws his inspiration from childhood fairy tales, the eighteenth century, and classical art movements. The memories from his adolescent years feed his creativity and consistently provoke a sense of romanticism and elegance in his work. By exploring the past, present, and future, he cultivates volume and shape as a form of cultural resistance with couture, expanding the vast space between the representation and the real. He creatively shares the Black experience through his fantasy lens in the hopes it will normalize the inclusion of POC in couture. Showing younger POC that our dreams can become our reality too.
Adreain is a 2019 SAIC fashion graduate who was a Driehaus Fashion Award recipient, launched his evening collection in 2021 and by 2022 had already been selected to participate in the Black in Fashion Council Discovery Showroom at New York Fashion Week. His pieces have been covered in Vogue, WWD, Fashionista and WGN TV.
Adreain's participation as a designer at Curio's Celebration of Style 2023, the Fashion Show Whispers of the Unknown on February 20, 2025, and showcasing Ajovang’s recent designs at the exclusive “Savor & Style” event hosted by the Chicago Fashion Coalition, marked a significant chapter in his evolving career.
His collection at Whispers of the Unknown delves into the journey from the turbulence of external love to the quiet strength of self-love. It speaks to the idea that even amidst the chaos of life, beauty and peace can be found in the simplest of moments—a breeze through a meadow, the sunlight filtering through an oak tree. This collection encapsulates Adreain's dedication to exploring both internal and external narratives, blending emotional depth with his signature couture techniques. It’s for Adreain’s visionary that fashionista.com, has acknowledged Ajovang as “label forging an otherworldly vision for womenswear.“
