| Summary: | Fashion designer Jermikko Shoshanna Taliaferro Johnson was born on July 22, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois. Johnson graduated from DuSable High School in Chicago in 1966, before earning her B.F.A. degree from the School of the Art Institute in 1972. She served as an apprentice to fashion designer Stanley Korshak and was hired by Eucos in Evanston, Illinois after graduation. Johnson founded her own fashion design business. She worked as a fashion designer for a succession of firms, including Fureal, Pier 1 Imports, Revere Sportswear and HJ, Inc. In 1979, she founded Jermikko Shoshanna Johnson Originals, and in 1987, she created JJ Hobeau. Johnson won the State of Illinois Fashion Designer of the Year Award in 1997. She was honored as the Manufacturer of the Millennium in 1999. Johnson also started the adult education fashion design programs at Olive-Harvey College and Chicago State University.
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