Gilbert Eric Khan, born in New York and raised in South Jamaica Queens, New York, is an avid artist, fashion designer, appreciator of history, musician, lyricist, DJ, and leader at heart. A child of the new millennia, he has tackled our fashion and social media- based world, introducing business and marketing techniques, with an approach that appeals to everyone. At the age of six, he was experimenting with his father’s 2006 edition of Adobe’s Photoshop™️. He’s been experimenting ever since, with digital graphics, hand drawings, fashion pieces, and a plethora of art mediums. His business consists of hand painted custom jackets, customized sneakers, and each custom piece has its own story. Growing up in South Jamaica, one of the toughest neighborhoods in the United States, he recalls watching the superintendent for his apartment building, scrubbing blood off of the front steps to his home. Someone got stabbed to death the night before- and life went on. People kept working, babies kept crying, and Eric kept dreaming. Don’t you ever stop and dream about making dreams com true?
He often dreamed dreams in black and white because of such negative surroundings and unfortunate situations. He dreamed dreams of positivity and good things, where people would join together and stop tearing each other apart. This was the drive. This moved Eric to go and make those dreams a reality. In 2018, when he graduated earning grants…
