Fashion Designer, Performer, Travel Journalist Jon Haggins Dies at 79 – WWD
After gaining fame in fashion as one of the first major Black designers, Haggins excelled in other fields.
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After gaining fame in fashion as one of the first major Black designers, Haggins excelled in other fields.
Before heading up the data and analytics company Hill delivered the Taranaki Daily News around his Bell Block neighbourhood. As a student at New Plymouth Boys’ High School, he said he had “no idea” what he wanted to do in future. “Eventually I knew I wanted to do something around business.” ANDY JACKSON/Stuff Hill, 42, moved to Australia in 2004 and has been growing his company ever since. When he left school he started at Coopers and Lybrand New Plymouth, now PwC, “shredding paper and making coffees for partners” while he studied accounting extramurally. He eventually rea...