If you don't have customers to sell to, you can't commit to anything with textile factories or manufacturing factories because you don't know if you'….

I wanted to give people an experience. I wanted them to get their money's worth..

I want to represent the street, not in a negative sense, but in the sense that when I was growing up, that's what I grew up on..

I was at work but my soul wasn't there, my body was there but I wasn't connecting to what I was doing. Eventually I decided to get out of there and d….

I want to be recognized but I don't seek it out..

Even when I was just designing T-shirts people really gravitated to them..

I don't just want to put a price tag on pieces because I can. I don't want put a price tag on pieces that are unreasonable either. Just because peopl….

I started out doing everything on a custom scale and when that started paying the bills I started making more pieces..

Somebody once told me if you're doing what you're supposed to you don't have to force it..

I believe that if you work hard enough and do things the right way recognition will come..

Starting out is very difficult if you don't have a clientele..

I started designing and getting into cutting and sewing, I also started learning how to do patterns and tech packs. From there I transitioned from ch….

Even though I wasn't making a lot of money I was enjoying what I was doing..

I wasn't able to afford high-end brands or any of that, so I grew up on streetwear..

The thing is you can be a great designer but you can also be lazy or not understand the other person's preferences or be more concerned about being a….

I didn't go to school for fashion, I didn't have anybody to teach me anything about fashion - that's all I knew how to do, graphic design..

I'm based in Atlanta so there weren't a lot of people to talk to about fashion because no one was really doing it on the scale that I wanted to do it….

I was working a corporate job for years and it always felt restrictive, it felt like I was doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing..