Ayinde Bradford is a designer and advocate whose work highlights how systems of othering and disregard intersect with cultural expression and aesthetics (primarily for Black Americans). A Princeton architecture graduate and current design student at Parsons School of Design, he uses fashion to explore the consequences of racialization on self-perception, presentation, and spatial engagement. Drawing from Black diasporic aesthetics - choices for survival and expression - he alters the familiar to reframe the presence of discrimination and neglect in Black narratives. His designs link African Americans to the wider Afropolitan scene. Bradford’s work honors the overlooked, exemplifying softness within the hard complexities of Black history.