The founder of a Portland-based footwear design school is bringing design classes for high schoolers to Inglewood, California, where he grew up.
PORTLAND, Ore — Portland’s own Pensole has partnered with Adidas and The Iovine and Young Academy, founded by Jimmy Iovine and Andre “Dr. Dre” Young, to bring footwear and apparel design classes to high school students in Inglewood, California.
The classes, called Wood U, stand out to Pensole’s founder D’Wayne Edwards among the other partnerships he’s done with the German brand. Bringing footwear design classes to students who otherwise wouldn’t have them is the entire mantra of Pensole, but it’s special this time, Edwards
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