Eugene Jackson (August 30, 1941 – July 19, 2006),[1] known professionally as Jay Jaxon, was an American fashion designer, costumer, and couturier.
[1][3] Jaxon became creative director of the house of Jean-Louis Scherrer at the age of 24 and released his first haute couture collection as head designer in 1970.
[1] Jaxon earned a bachelor's degree from Hunter College in Manhattan and attended the New York University School of Law for about a year before changing paths.
[2] He then dropped out of law school, took a job as a bank teller to support himself and enrolled at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).
[1] Two years after graduation, Jaxon created ready-to-wear designs for New York City department stores such as Henri Bendel and Bonwit Teller.
[1] In the mid-1980s Jaxon moved to Los Angeles, designing clothing for the vocalist Annie Lennox, including a menswear-inspired suit that she wore during a drag performance at the 1984 Grammy Awards.
[4][5] Fenderson was able to find over fifty newspaper articles mentioning Jaxon found in many of his designs in magazines but noted that, in some instances, he was not being tracked in the metadata of the archival databases of those publications.