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Jacqueline City is a 23-year-old disabled fashion designer and CEO of Jacqueline City Apparel. She grew up in Northeast Philadelphia and currently resides in South Philadelphia. Because of her disabilities, City stresses the importance of inclusivity; her brand has options for women, men, unisex, kids and plus sizes up to a 5X.

Jacqueline City Apparel has been featured in British Vogue (August to October 2020) and "Dreamy Magazine." Jacqueline City was featured as a New York Fashion Week: Ones To Watch and will appear in Paris Fashion Week. City was invited to show her collection spring 2021 at the Ritz Paris.

City is proud to be a disabled girl boss and focuses her time into her brand. She suffers from dysautonomia and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) which affects her blood flow and which left her bedridden for some time. Now that she is able to take on more, she chooses to turn her pain into art to inspire others dealing with invisible illness as well as mental health struggles, even doing public speaking engagements.

Jacqueline City describes her love for art and stresses how her disability impacts her life, "I have been an artist my entire life moving from finger paints to acrylic paints, writing poems to writing songs, sewing dolls clothes to halloween costumes. I had to put my art on hold for awhile while I focused on my health: a disability called dysautonomia that impacted every aspect of my life. Now that I am stable enough to focus on my passion, art, I am ready to take on this new adventure in my brand Jacqueline City Apparel."

Jacqueline on her dysautonomia in Dosage Magazine, “[It] affects everything that’s supposed to automatically happen in my body. It affects everything from my blood pressure to my body temperature to my digestion and everything I should automatically regulate. It’s a lot to deal with at once, but now that I know that all my symptoms are connected and all stem from the same thing, it makes it easier to tackle.”

Jacqueline City Apparel launched on February 15, 2019 and dropped its first full collection, The Manic Pixie Collection, on March 1, 2019.