Journey Carter is an emerging 18-year-old entrepreneur, designer, philanthropist and actress. Her socially conscious streetwear brand, The Journey Collection, features hoodies, t-shirts and hats all uniquely designed by Journey. Her line aims to empower each wearer to embrace their uniqueness and celebrate being different. She opened her first pop-up store, “Different,” in Los Angeles’s legendary Beverly Center in 2021. The store features her three collections (Different, Stay True to Yourself and We Are Not The Same), and has attracted attention from celebrities such as Tamar Braxton, Romeo Miller, Serayah, and Yolanda Adams.
Journey first launched The Journey Collection at just 12 years old with her one-of-a-kind, handmade hair accessories. The young go-getter’s passion for philanthropy inspired her to donate a portion of her hair accessories’ proceeds to providing bows to youth battling cancer. Alongside owning and operating her successful business, Journey is also an accomplished actress. Currently, she features as a recurring regular on the new hit BET/Viacom series “Kingdom Business” and has previously held roles in Netflix’s “Colin in Black & White”, “Family Reunion” and in the CBS drama “All Rise.”
Journey’s eye for design transcends her thriving career and into her academics. She attends the HBCU Prairie View A&M University where she is working towards her degree in architecture with concentrations in construction science, real estate development and interior/fashion design.
About Different Streetwear LA
The mission of the brand is not just to create fashion, but to build a movement. Each piece is uniquely designed to empower wearers to own their story, celebrate their authenticity, and defy the boxes society conforms. Through bold designs and meaningful messages, the brand encourages everyone to stay true to themselves. The journey to mental wellness starts with self-acceptance.
Mental health is often stigmatized, but what we wear can spark conversations and break barriers. Our brand is committed to normalizing being different, supporting individuality, and creating a community where everyone feels seen, valued, and celebrated.
When you Join The Community and support Different Streetwear LA, 10% of every sale goes directly to funding our programs for counseling and providing resources for the homeless, supporting students struggling with low self esteem and providing a path to hope for those who need it most.
Together, we’re not only breaking down stigmas, but we are building a stronger, more compassionate community. Let’s redefine what it means to be different. Let’s inspire each other to stay true, stand out, and give back.
After all, we are not the same, and that’s what makes us powerful.
About Journey
Journey Carter is an emerging entrepreneur, actress, designer, humanitarian and philanthropist. Committed to giving back, her streetwear collections, known by the name they bear, uplift the important message of mental health, and self acceptance.
Journey’s desire for creating began at just 12 years old with “The Journey Collection, a one-of-a-kind, handmade hair accessories line, where proceeds provided hair bows to girls who were battling cancer. A true entrepreneur and woman of passion, Journey has a heart to impact communities. She is currently, an HBCU student at Prairie View A&M University, where she is working towards her degree in Architecture with a concentration in Construction Science, and an emphasis on Community Development.
As an actress, Journey has starred in two Netflix series “Family Reunion”, and “Colin in Black and White”, CBS “All Rise” and BET + “Kingdom Business”. She has also been featured in the 2021 Super Bowl Commercial. The Different Streetwear brand has been featured in “Seventeen Magazine”, “Teen Magazine”, “Essence”, “California Apparel News” and “Oprah Daily” to name a few. In 2022 she was named AT&T’s Black Future Maker.
Journey launched her first pop-up store, “Different,” in Los Angeles’s legendary Beverly Center in 2020-2022. The store featured her three collections "Different," "Stay True to Yourself" and "We Are Not The Same”.
