Torey Amerson’s interest in fashion hasn’t always come solely from a place of love. Some of it was based on survival, he said.
“We didn’t have very much so [I] had to be creative with what [I] did have,” said Amerson, originally from Bessemer, of his upbringing. “Whatever was out at the time when I was growing up, we were not able to afford it. So, we [he and his older sister, Dwyanna Amerson Penn] would create [what we wanted] … we had to be creative with the means that we had.”
There were no sewing classes involved, so Amerson learned his craft through “a whole lot of trial and error,” he said, and from the day he successfully made his first shirt, he continued to make his own pieces…