ILLUSTRATION BY NOLAN PELLETIER
He might have engineered automobiles in his first profession within the automotive business, however for the previous three years Detroit transplant Nigel Agboh, 32, has been steering developments. With a design group that features College of Cincinnati vogue design college students on co-op, Agboh leads the imaginative and prescient for trendsetting ensembles reworked from upholstery material, curtains, blankets, and previous unworn clothes. Utilizing jacquard bedspreads, the corporate customized tailor-made a blue-and-white go well with for Detroit Lions linebacker Derrick Barnes, inspiring a fan on Instagram to remark, “This is the reason GQ retains calling.”
Agboh not too long ago took over the previous Rad OTR house, nonetheless stocking the shop’s late twentieth century males’s sportswear (band tees, roomy flight vegetation, and durable modern labels. (“Fingers down, very best quality,” Agboh says of Hole’s Nineties clothes.) However the house is being reworked to incorporate the luxe upcycled clothes, ladies’s classic clothes, and to host occasions. “I would like folks to come back right here not only for product however for the vibe, the expertise,” says Agboh. “We’re greater than a transactional place.” Nonetheless, it’s the reworked capsule collections that embody Jet Black’s capabilities and ambition. The couture-quality, quilt-tastic “Dwelling Proof” group, for instance, belongs on a star—or in a museum.
Jet Black Classic, 1212 Primary St. Suite B, Over-the-Rhine, @jetblackvtg