Kheris Rogers

CTL-E-6083 · Person · other · 2006–present

PROVISIONAL evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07304 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6083.

Kheris Rogers, born in 2006 in Los Angeles, California, is an American fashion entrepreneur and author, the founder of the apparel line Flexin' In My Complexion. Bullied at school for her dark skin — first at a predominantly white school, then, after transferring, through colorism from classmates of her own race — she turned a phrase her grandmother used to affirm her into a brand in 2017, after a photograph her sister Taylor Pollard posted online went viral and drew support from figures including Alicia Keys and Lupita Nyong'o. In September 2017, at eleven years old, she presented the line at Harlem Fashion Week during New York Fashion Week, reported as the youngest designer ever to showcase there. She was named to Teen Vogue's 21 Under 21 list, was selected by LeBron James among the women who inspired his LeBron XVI shoe in 2018, published the picture book Shine Bright in September 2022, and works through the Kheris Rogers Foundation on colorism, representation and youth entrepreneurship. She is an adult, having turned eighteen in 2024 on the sourced 2006 birth year.

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 5 — 747 Program, Wave 11; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Kheris Rogers entity in the live graph at 3,763 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-6083 assigned at assembly. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1543 (Entrepreneurs list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — African American entrepreneur; Flexin' In My Complexion was founded explicitly against colorism and is documented Black cultural work. Vital status: LIVING — adult (born 2006; turned eighteen in 2024); latest dated evidence found in this pass is the Kheris Rogers Foundation's Los Angeles women's round table of 25 Mar 2023 (Los Angeles Watts Times, Mar 2023); no post-2023 dated coverage was found, which is one of the caps named below. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Youngest designer to showcase at New York Fashion Week, aged 11, September 2017 (Essence, Sep 2017); picture book Shine Bright published September 2022 (AfroTech, 2022); Teen Vogue 21 Under 21 and LeBron XVI inspiration selection, 2018 (VoyageLA, 2019). MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Essence / press photograph of Kheris Rogers presenting Flexin' In My Complexion at Harlem Fashion Week, 2017; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-temp-1543-kheris-rogers.svg); video HELD (Shorts Link Map checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short); audio HELD (no rights basis). PROVISIONAL CAP: no authoritative anchor in the CTL-GOV-006 named class (Britannica, official governing body / Hall of Fame, institutional biography, major newspaper) was secured in this pass — the record rests on Black-media and local-press coverage (Essence, AfroTech, Los Angeles Watts Times, VoyageLA) — and no dated vital-status evidence after March 2023 was found; the exact birth date (6 August 2006) appears only in low-tier biography sites, so this record states the birth year only. MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging.)

Relationships

• LeBron James — related to
  LeBron James (CTL-E-5891) named Kheris Rogers one of the sixteen women who inspired his LeBron XVI shoe, launched in September 2018 (VoyageLA, 2019).

Sources

• Essence, 'Kheris Rogers Debuts Fashion Line During New York Fashion Week' (Sep 2017) — the 11-year-old designer debuted Flexin' In My Complexion at Harlem Fashion Week at the Museum of the City of New York, the youngest designer to showcase at New York Fashion Week; the line grew out of bullying over her dark skin — https://www.essence.com/fashion/fashion-week/meet-11-year-old-designer-kheris-rogers/ (build store)
• VoyageLA, 'Meet Kheris Rogers of Flexin' In My Complexion in South LA' (2019) — Rogers, born in 2006 in Los Angeles, founded the brand after years of bullying over her dark skin; named by LeBron James as one of the 16 strongest women who inspired the LeBron XVI (launched September 2018); Teen Vogue 21 Under 21 — https://voyagela.com/interview/meet-kheris-rogers-flexin-complexion-south-la/ (build store)
• AfroTech, '16-Year-Old Fashion Designer Kheris Rogers Wants To Encourage Black Girls And Boys To Shine Bright With Her Children's Book' (2022) — Rogers, then 16, on the colorism and hair discrimination behind the brand and on her picture book Shine Bright (HarperCollins, September 2022) — https://afrotech.com/kheris-rogers-fashion-designer-childrens-book (build store)
• Los Angeles Watts Times, 'Kheris Rogers is Flexin Black Pride to the Children' (Mar 2023) — the Kheris Rogers Foundation hosted a free women's round table in Los Angeles on 25 Mar 2023 addressing colorism, racism and representation, with a preview of the spring Flexin' In My Complexion line — https://lawattstimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8875:kheris-rogers-is-flexin-black-pride-to-the-children-the-multi-hyphenated-teen-wants-to-empower-black-youth-to-walk-proud-in-their-own-skin&catid=11&Itemid=126&tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&page= (build store)

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