Английская Википедия:Alan King (designer)

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Alan Cheung (born 17 February 1997), also known as Alan King, is a Chinese American entrepreneur and fashion designer.[1] King is the founder and CEO of AKINGS.

Career and entrepreneurship

King is the founder of fashion clothing brand AKINGS.[2] He founded the brand in January 2016. In 2017, AKINGS showed their autumn winter collection Soho, new york which was featured by The Source magazine.[1] In 2019, King was accepted into the Forbes Business Council.[3] In 2020 King announced his latest partnership with Forbes to launch a mastermind[4] featured on Forbes new platform Forbes8.[4]

In 2021, King appeared on the HBO Max[5] series “THE HYPE[6]” as a competing designer alongside celebrity judges such as Offest[7] who were called “co-signers”. In 2022, King announced his NFT Genesis Collection with a NYFW popup in New York City. In June of the same year, AKINGS hosted a party celebrating their upcoming NFT "Wear to Earn" collection amidst NFT.NYC week.[8] The collection is not only an NFT digital wearable but also the brand's next-generation customer reward ecosystem. Each trading card[9] presents holders with "Reward Boxes" consisting of tokens, physically redeemable clothes, VIP event invites, partner NFTs, and more. In November 2022, Forbes named Alan and his company co-founder Bryan Leon among its 2023 30 Under 30: Art and Style[10] alongside Hailey Bieber, Wisdom Kaye, and Ji Won Choi.

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