In this early interview with VoyageMIA, Avee Charles reflects on the beginnings of her creative journey, tracing her relationship with fashion back to childhood. After making clothes for her Bratz dolls, she learned to sew from her great-grandmother at just six years old, establishing an early connection between family, craftsmanship, and design that would later become part of Aveeation’s story.
Years later, while in college, Charles remembered a promise she had made to herself: to own a business by the age of 20. At 19, she decided not to wait. Using the projects and resources available to her in college, she began building what would become Aveeation.
The conversation also captures the realities behind those early years. Charles speaks candidly about navigating pricing, investing in the wrong resources, giving away products, and eventually realizing that building a successful brand required understanding not just the product, but the people it was meant to serve.
Already working across design, styling, and creative direction, Charles described Aveeation as the accomplishment she was proudest of. Diversity, representation, experimentation, and an unwillingness to place the brand inside a single box were central to her vision.
Looking back, the interview documents more than the beginning of a fashion brand. It captures the early formation of a creative identity that would continue to evolve with time.
What began with a child learning to sew beside her great-grandmother became the foundation for a house shaped by generations, experimentation, and the belief that fashion could carry a story forward.