15 Facts About Heron Preston

Heron Preston Johnson is an American artist, fashion designer, and disc jockey.

Heron Preston is a co-founder of the men's streetwear brand Been Trill, alongside Virgil Abloh, Justin Saunders, and others; and founder of his eponymous brand, Heron Preston.

Heron Preston graduated in 2007, and stayed in New York to pursue a career in fashion.

Al Moran, one of the founders of the Moran Moran art gallery, discovered Heron Preston's blog featuring street photography and offered him a publishing deal.

Heron Preston worked as a marketing specialist and social media director for Nike.

Heron Preston worked as an art director for Kanye West, for whom he designed tour merchandise and acted as a consultant for West's album The Life of Pablo and his brand Yeezy.

In 2018, Heron Preston launched a new collection in collaboration with NASA to celebrate its 60th anniversary.

Heron Preston has participated in large events and festivals, including Coachella, Ultra and Fool's Gold Day Off.

In 2016, Heron Preston released ONE HUNDO, a mixtape including music from Zomby, Kanye West, Beyonce and Drake.

In 2017, Heron Preston published Honorable Profession, a limited edition of a zine of convicts and crime scenes photos taken of his father while he was a police officer, which were taken in the 1980s and 1990s in Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco.

In 2018, Heron Preston collaborated with Carhartt WIP on a capsule collection, which juxtaposes workwear and luxury.

Heron Preston collaborated with Justin Timberlake for the singers' 2018 Man of The Woods Tour merchandise.

Many items from the Heron Preston collections are decorated with a print or embroidery with the word "style" in the Cyrillic alphabet.

Heron Preston noted that this idea came to him in 2014, when he helped a friend with an exhibition dedicated to the hip-hop culture of the 90s.

Heron Preston has stated that he chose to use Cyrillic because of his obsession with Russian culture and paraphernalia.