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Recognizing and honoring MISKEEN ORIGINALS(r) and its co-founders for over 20 years of producing wearable works of art during Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week 2022.
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WHEREAS, MISKEEN ORIGINALS(r) was officially founded on October 24, 1999, by Ibn Anderson, Bariq Cobbs, Mark Allen, and Kenya Abdul-Hadi; and
WHEREAS, Ibn "The Artrepreneur" Anderson's art and design career has been realized thru entrepreneurship intently influenced by art culture. Throughout the 90's Ibn cofounded 3 art-based apparel brands, with each one of them having an impact on Hip-Hop culture. Ibn went on to work for Sean "P Diddy" Combs at Sean John where he assisted in the design of its most highly received collections and their televised runway show for New York Fashion Week, which included original art-based denim and t-shirts; and
WHEREAS, Ibn left Sean John and co-founded MISKEEN ORIGINALS(r), a national clothing brand whose claim to fame was "one of one" wearable art t-shirts. After establishing wearable art for the masses from the U.S. to Japan, in 2005 he then moved on to create Meezan:artcouture which he design directed until 2010. Meezan:artcouture encompassed fashion, design, abstract art, and had its own art gallery, a flagship store and design studio in his hometown, Philadelphia. During that time, he opened two retail stores in Philadelphia under the brand name Kamouflage where he ran a semi-vertical design-based concept store that embraced his love and passion for art, design, and fashion; and
WHEREAS, Today he is known as "The Artrepreneur" because of his unique journey in the art and fashion worlds. He is currently the President and owner of Artistic Industries LLC, an art and design firm that operates his latest "wearable art" brand, Artifak, while offering art, design, and branding services for a myriad of clients from Pyramid Studios in the Brewerytown section of Philadelphia. For over a decade, Ibn has given back to the community through his coll...
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