Speaker 1: Welcome to the stage, Kenny Burns. What's happening, y'all? Feel good?
Speaker 1: Say yeah, I'm gonna take this hot ask coat off
Speaker 1: in two seconds. I just want you all to see
Speaker 1: the whole outfit. Uh. Capricorns. Is it still Capricorn season? Okay,
Speaker 1: you're lucky. I want to bring out three individuals that
Speaker 1: I think represent Atlanta great um and very well on
Speaker 1: the fashion side, just the lifestyle side in general. First,
Speaker 1: I would like to bring the beautiful Sky to the
Speaker 1: stage from Sets by Sky. She's my spirit animal and
Speaker 1: we did a little Coca Cola thing on accident. We
Speaker 1: didn't even play it and she got on dickies. Give
Speaker 1: it up a sky, y'all. Uh. Next, I'd like to
Speaker 1: bring to the stage my brother from another mother. He
Speaker 1: is the creative director at Wish Renaldo Nehemiah, that Co
Speaker 1: five boy at Co five and last but not at
Speaker 1: least Uh. He's a legend in Atlanta as far as
Speaker 1: I'm concerned. The owner of motor for for a quasi
Speaker 1: bill qataria Um. I don't know if you all know
Speaker 1: everything about Virgil. If you know everything about Virgil, put
Speaker 1: your hands high. You don't let me help you. Virgil A.
Speaker 1: Blow is an American fashion designer, entrepreneur, artists, and DJ
Speaker 1: who has been the artistic director of Louis Vutan's men's
Speaker 1: wear collection since March. A Blow is also the chief
Speaker 1: executive officer of the Milan based label Off White, a
Speaker 1: fashion house he founded in Can you show them the original?
Speaker 1: That's an original? Peace, you're gonna stand up? Quasi turnaround? Okay? Great? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's his original. Oh uh, ladies and gentlemen. He is
Speaker 1: also a trained architect, I Blow who also worked in
Speaker 1: the Chicago street fashion scene, with one of his first
Speaker 1: offerings The Daily Making Dollars t Chicago's in the Building
Speaker 1: fashion gigs. Oh are you in the building? I got
Speaker 1: this information? I got a cheat sheet. Uh. He also
Speaker 1: had his first collab with leaders Um, a famous street
Speaker 1: where movement out of Chicago, designed the chain Tea with
Speaker 1: his then company v A A L l C. Did
Speaker 1: anyone know he had a company called v A A
Speaker 1: L l C. We're learning tonight. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: a learning curve for all of us. Uh. And personally,
Speaker 1: what I'm most proud of is that he is the
Speaker 1: first American of African descent to be named artistic director
Speaker 1: at a French luxury fashion house. Give it up please.
Speaker 1: Time magazine also named him one of the most influential
Speaker 1: people in the world. So how many people remember the
Speaker 1: first time they all Virgil or heard of Virgil? Not many.
Speaker 1: I'm loving this. Um. There was an infamous photo taken
Speaker 1: by a photographer by the name of Tommy Ton and
Speaker 1: it was outside of the Calm de Garson show and
Speaker 1: what is obviously wildly circulated on the net, and it
Speaker 1: featured can we get that picture up there? On the screen?
Speaker 1: It featured Don c tesst Arnold, Chris Julian, Kanye West,
Speaker 1: Farnsworth Bentley, and then it featured an unknown Virgil a blow.
Speaker 1: Did anyone know that you ain't know ship? No one
Speaker 1: is scared of anyone in this room. For those who
Speaker 1: didn't know, now you know that started? Uh that's actually
Speaker 1: those yeezis or the Louis Vuitton yeasys that everybody was
Speaker 1: going crazy over when he did his Louis Vuitton offering,
Speaker 1: his first Loui Baton offering. So we're gonna start the
Speaker 1: first question, and I want to open this up to
Speaker 1: our amazing panel. Um, what do you think Virgil's contribution
Speaker 1: has meant to Atlanta fast and culture. Um Virgil has
Speaker 1: made an amazing impact as far as like fashion and
Speaker 1: art and also has given the opportunity for a lot
Speaker 1: of people to actually step outside of box to actually
Speaker 1: make a difference in fashion and fashion world because you know,
Speaker 1: we're living in the days where people wearing more casual
Speaker 1: leisure were as supposed to wearing a suit, so now
Speaker 1: everything's more so streetwear were although near Maya. The influence
Speaker 1: of everything that he has done for me as a
Speaker 1: young black male, you know from the South, it just
Speaker 1: is a young Black African American male period too strive
Speaker 1: to do what we was not supposed to be to do.
Speaker 1: Um giving me the inspiration to being a young black
Speaker 1: creative director in a city that's powerful and being powered out,
Speaker 1: you know by African Americans. It gives me the strength
Speaker 1: every day to seeing the iconic things that he's doing
Speaker 1: for me to say I want to do the same thing,
Speaker 1: to take Atlanta to the world is well and speakful
Speaker 1: Atlanta to the world as well, and everything that I do,
Speaker 1: you know, being a creator direct their wish. So by
Speaker 1: him being that stap on, that trophy that I can
Speaker 1: look at every day and study. You know, it's my
Speaker 1: aspiration to you know, do that. Yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: allows us to be able to think outside the box.
Speaker 1: We see someone who's doing something like that that looks
Speaker 1: like us, and now it allows us to think that
Speaker 1: it's tangible for us. Men and women are like black
Speaker 1: and brown. It's very important. Absolutely, I think. Um, I
Speaker 1: think he blew up because he made bigger clothes, bigger.
Speaker 1: I think there was a time when, no bullshit, I
Speaker 1: think there was a time where where designer clothes were
Speaker 1: not made for black men. I think that there was
Speaker 1: a time, you know, even when I started Ryan Kenney,
Speaker 1: the problem we were having and we were the second
Speaker 1: black designers ever in sacks with the Avenue by the way,
Speaker 1: with Ryan Kenney, but go hello, what's Aaron? We need
Speaker 1: shots a Yama. Um. But I think he kind of
Speaker 1: he kind of hit the mark. I mean he he
Speaker 1: was making things that could fit athletes, that could fit
Speaker 1: you know, oversized people. And I think that you know
Speaker 1: when you saw I mean, black men have shoulders, we
Speaker 1: have butts, we have guts, we you know abo And
Speaker 1: I think he literally coined it and hit a home
Speaker 1: run with it, because if you think of his first offering,
Speaker 1: which was pyrex. You know it was a whole you know,
Speaker 1: it was a whole thing, like you know they were.
Speaker 1: He took the flannels from Ralph Lauren he printed on
Speaker 1: the back of them. I think, Zoe, you told me
Speaker 1: there was a flash cell at Polo when that happened.
Speaker 1: So where are you at flashal geek, Zoe? This is
Speaker 1: my cheek she Zoe, Stand up zo, stand up Zozo.
Speaker 1: He has geek out of Chicago. So the rumor has
Speaker 1: it that he there was a flash sell Ralph right,
Speaker 1: and he brought all the sizes and the painted pirates
Speaker 1: on the back, right, okay, and they had huge sizes. Okay, cool.
Speaker 1: I just I don't want to I want to have
Speaker 1: all facts, and we're gonna get to the facts. I
Speaker 1: want facts from coming in the audience with the microphone,
Speaker 1: especially to the white people. Okay. Question number two, how
Speaker 1: do each of you characterize Atlanta Street where? Now? I
Speaker 1: wanna I don't want to set you up with this
Speaker 1: question because you're from l A. Originally, Dickies is an
Speaker 1: l A Atlanta thing, too, right, we share that, right, um,
Speaker 1: But how do you characterize Atlanta Street where? Because Dickies
Speaker 1: is totally Atlanta Street, where I just wore Dicky Suit
Speaker 1: the cassette two weeks ago. So honestly, I think Dicky's
Speaker 1: is a as a it's a special special case because
Speaker 1: it's universal. This is this is like the poor man's uniform.
Speaker 1: That's what it started as. So it's not just an
Speaker 1: l A thing. It's not a Southern thing. It's a
Speaker 1: US thing. Um, everyone worthies when they when they went
Speaker 1: to work. So I don't think. I don't think everyone
Speaker 1: had the tailor to fit before Atlanta. I mean this
Speaker 1: is an evolved fashion has the tailors. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: this is okay. But everyone can can relate to this
Speaker 1: in one way or another. Either someone's grandfather wore this
Speaker 1: to work or someone's panel speaker war to a panel. Um,
Speaker 1: that's sky alright, alright, Um, it's it's relatable. But it's
Speaker 1: also it's practical, and that's why I like it. That's
Speaker 1: also like why I like Dickies in general or anything
Speaker 1: like that's a gumpsuit because I can wear these to work.
Speaker 1: I can wear these in a set and then I
Speaker 1: can take my shoes off, put heels on, and go
Speaker 1: to dinner if I want to. Um. So it's kind
Speaker 1: of universal and love your style. Ronaldo, creative director of Wish.
Speaker 1: I mean Atlanta, you know, it fluished me through my
Speaker 1: whole life. I mean growing up in Miami, Florida. I
Speaker 1: mean my favorite group, you know, Joan Bloods. I mean
Speaker 1: I tell everybody all the time, the Flyers. The Flyers
Speaker 1: guy that I used to look out too in Miami
Speaker 1: when I was growing up was Big gift Um. He
Speaker 1: was the Flyers of them all. I mean he he
Speaker 1: was charismatic. He just like yo, listen, I got the attitude.
Speaker 1: I'm riding my box Chevy and I'm gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: still be me. And you know, growing up at Miami,
Speaker 1: that's what we wrote this Donks and box Chevys. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was like then in college, I go to walm
Speaker 1: up by my Dickies. Even though there was a size
Speaker 1: I was like a size eight back then, I was
Speaker 1: wearing a size thirty four. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So about that life right, it still is in a
Speaker 1: more you know, curated way. But Atlanta always like, like
Speaker 1: you know, Andre three thousand said, the South has something
Speaker 1: to say, and every time you see somebody from Atlanta,
Speaker 1: it's an air about them all of my friends that
Speaker 1: are genuine from Atlanta that I meet, that I love
Speaker 1: and respect. This is confidence of like yo, listen, I'm
Speaker 1: from Atlanta from one six. You take old national role,
Speaker 1: you know, Metropolitan Stewart Avenue. This is what you're gonna get, Okay,
Speaker 1: addresses um these in these streets though. Look look you
Speaker 1: know Ronaldo Style, some of your favorite rappers, um Quasi
Speaker 1: Before you answer, I just want to I want to
Speaker 1: give the people a little bit. Quasi started uh selling
Speaker 1: me close at Ralph Lauren and he took that knowledge
Speaker 1: of his customer base opened the store about the name
Speaker 1: of motor for for which he has today. And the
Speaker 1: genius about this man is that, you know, when all
Speaker 1: these fashion houses from Europe we're making all these things
Speaker 1: that didn't fit high armpits, low waist jeans, he went
Speaker 1: out into the world and found the same silhouettes and cuts,
Speaker 1: but things that fit us. And I just want to
Speaker 1: commend you for that because it's unheard of for an
Speaker 1: independent owner to being business over fifteen years selling fashion. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Kenny. Um. I want to also elaborate that
Speaker 1: the fact that Atlanta, when I first moved here in
Speaker 1: right after the Olympics was incredibly a city where it's
Speaker 1: growing fast. And I was living downtown Atlanta and loft
Speaker 1: and I noticed the style is more so the classic
Speaker 1: Cortez Nikes. It was like the dope boy fresh look
Speaker 1: with baggy levies an oversized white T shirt. So we've
Speaker 1: graduated from that to the point where we have Virgil
Speaker 1: that's now making an amazing collaboration with like Nike and
Speaker 1: making of the cooler version of uh, what fashion is?
Speaker 1: You know, so our style and motor fhul Force more
Speaker 1: so international where we actually reach out to the global
Speaker 1: market where if it's a Japanese style, if it's oversized, look,
Speaker 1: you can still have a cool effect where you're actually
Speaker 1: expressing yourself without thinking twice, you know, kind of like
Speaker 1: growing out of bed and just point out a cool outfit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I want you to elaborate a little bit more
Speaker 1: because I think that you know, as I mean, being
Speaker 1: in business over two decades, basically a happy new decade
Speaker 1: to everyone. By the way, you know, this is not
Speaker 1: a new year, this is a new decade child. Um.
Speaker 1: But but seeing Atlanta go from you know, because when
Speaker 1: we moved here, you know, it was really you know,
Speaker 1: the Southern music was starting to ascend. You had the
Speaker 1: face records, you had social death, rowdy records, you had
Speaker 1: all these things starting when you when you came, or
Speaker 1: starting to actually peak when you came. But um, I
Speaker 1: just want to talk about how you could talk through
Speaker 1: the history and the evolution of the fashion here. Sure,
Speaker 1: um spending time Atlanta's fashion. When I worked at Lenox
Speaker 1: Mall actual Ralph Laurence, my first retail job, everyone was
Speaker 1: at Lord and Taylor. So UM at the time, I
Speaker 1: think for the most part, I was in college at
Speaker 1: Clark and I couldn't sleep see you. So Clark was
Speaker 1: very fashionable, and coming from New York to Atlanta wasn't
Speaker 1: was an amazing Um just changed in my life just
Speaker 1: for the fact that I went to HBC School, but um,
Speaker 1: the fact that I met some of the middles amazing
Speaker 1: people there and to this day they all my friends. UM.
Speaker 1: I remember just you know, being in New York or
Speaker 1: wearing a lot of outdoor gear like Northface, and I've
Speaker 1: just kind of seen fashion Atlanta just changed to the
Speaker 1: point where we're more we're actually wearing more high fashion brands.
Speaker 1: So it's incredible, I think for me with with Atlanta fashion.
Speaker 1: I think it's grown into the metropolis that it is.
Speaker 1: I think because of all the beautiful people that moved
Speaker 1: here to you to go to school, um, to pursue
Speaker 1: a loved one too, whatever you came last year in
Speaker 1: high school. I think Atlanta has built up of so
Speaker 1: many different cities, and those cities have poured into Atlanta
Speaker 1: and now has you know, attached themselves to not only fashion,
Speaker 1: but music and everything else that has to do with lifestyle.
Speaker 1: But you know, I remember coming here and it was
Speaker 1: country like that. That's how people referred to Atlanta. They
Speaker 1: referred to everything Atlanta country, their style, their music there, whatever.
Speaker 1: And I had a certain affinity because of the tempo
Speaker 1: of the music. And I would go off the reservation
Speaker 1: because when I first came to school, Atlanta didn't funk
Speaker 1: with the colleges. It was like, you go to college,
Speaker 1: don't come over here. But because we were in the
Speaker 1: street a little bit, we were allowed to go play.
Speaker 1: And I think when I first went to Cascade, when
Speaker 1: I would go out to Old National Highway to make
Speaker 1: my runs like I would just I was immersed into
Speaker 1: the culture and and to be honest with you, you know,
Speaker 1: Atlanta unlike any other city in the world, that was
Speaker 1: its own thing. And then as the people started coming
Speaker 1: in and making their families here and growing. Because I've
Speaker 1: been here almost three decades and to see where it's
Speaker 1: at now. It's a true metropolitan city. It's a true
Speaker 1: thoughtful city, and it's offering. We're not only leading the music,
Speaker 1: We're not only leading in tech on a lot of levels.
Speaker 1: And with Paul Is bringing to the city, we're not
Speaker 1: only you know, we I mean, I would like to
Speaker 1: really dissect on who spends what I would believe Atlanta
Speaker 1: would be in the top ten in the world. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I just I like and I want to
Speaker 1: challenge everyone here, like, you know, how many people are
Speaker 1: residents here, live here? And how many of you are
Speaker 1: not from here? Like this is your home? Wherever you're
Speaker 1: from is cool? Everybody on on this stage was not
Speaker 1: born in Atlanta? How many people aren't born in Atlanta?
Speaker 1: I want to see that, Grady baby, what Georgia? Okay, well,
Speaker 1: so there's another hospital. Sounds graty. We just learned, we
Speaker 1: just learned important. Where's that at? Okay? Well, the fact
Speaker 1: that it was another hospital makes me feel whold. I
Speaker 1: just because all you hear is grady. But I just
Speaker 1: want to say this is our home and keep repping
Speaker 1: it the way we do. Um. I'm gonna get to
Speaker 1: the next question. How do you think having this exhibition?
Speaker 1: How many people have seen that exhibition upstairs? Okay, well
Speaker 1: those who haven't, after this you'll be able to see it.
Speaker 1: But how do you think having this exhibition effects or
Speaker 1: inspires the creative culture or trends here? Um? A whole lot,
Speaker 1: because if you look at the history of this Virgil
Speaker 1: Pick there is ever to be in Chicago first service
Speaker 1: in his hometown, then anybody to Atlanta. He could have
Speaker 1: chose any city else in the country or the world
Speaker 1: to bring a second, and for him to bring his
Speaker 1: second that just shows the impact that we have that
Speaker 1: he the world is watching and people don't even realize it.
Speaker 1: You think about all the dope brands out of Atlanta,
Speaker 1: like Cease and Desist, Raunchy, All Friends, Welcome by the
Speaker 1: Original Fani, you know, all of these brands. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta think about these brands that actually live in
Speaker 1: Atlanta that is moving throughout the world, that is influencing
Speaker 1: Because a lot of our rappers are wearing them. And
Speaker 1: if anybody don't think that these guys like Virgin Damn
Speaker 1: are not paying attention to what these young designers are
Speaker 1: doing in Atlanta, you would be crazy. I I appreciate
Speaker 1: you saying that, I really do, because I think that
Speaker 1: he might not get the credit for that, and that
Speaker 1: is a very I mean, I'm sure he could have
Speaker 1: went to New York, or he could have went anywhere,
Speaker 1: and he brought it to Atlanta. Do you guys have
Speaker 1: any more energy with that? Sure? Sure? Sure? Um. One
Speaker 1: thing I appreciate about what Virgil has done is to
Speaker 1: actually express himself with like um, the political aspect of
Speaker 1: life through his art and also the fact that fashion
Speaker 1: is at his best right now. Ever, where I would
Speaker 1: be in a thousand years because working at Rop Floren
Speaker 1: for me was soon talk kind of thing on a
Speaker 1: daily basis, but I started off at Polar Sport where
Speaker 1: it was more casual. Um. I was actually shopping this
Speaker 1: past holiday at Louis Batton and I walked into the
Speaker 1: leaving store and I just noticed a scarf that was
Speaker 1: an American flag made out of fur with a Ghanaian flag,
Speaker 1: and I was amazed by it because it was like
Speaker 1: a piece of art. I was like, Wow, this kid
Speaker 1: is amazing where he's actually expressing his native roots. Me
Speaker 1: being West African native, I was touched by it because,
Speaker 1: you know, as far as like the culture is concerned
Speaker 1: in Atlanta right now, we're like the most powerful state
Speaker 1: of emergency. Man, It's it's crazy. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: good things happened in the city. We have the typ
Speaker 1: fairy thing popping, we have music, we have fashion, and
Speaker 1: you have people all walks of life. So hey, let's
Speaker 1: get it guys. Sure. So I was just gonna say,
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting. I think we all should need
Speaker 1: to consider the contents of the exhibit, like the pieces
Speaker 1: that he chose to display. I don't want to spoil
Speaker 1: it for those have not seen, but there's a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of rugs up there, y'all. It's um. It's quite vast,
Speaker 1: like he had covered a lot of bases um with
Speaker 1: this exhibit. And the fact that to your point, he
Speaker 1: decided that he felt Atlanta could appreciate all of the
Speaker 1: different aspects of the exhibit is really important. Considering the
Speaker 1: fact that what you said earlier, Atlanta used to be
Speaker 1: a place that with a joke to people. Um so
Speaker 1: I think I think the city is finally is the
Speaker 1: post and I think it's important and people are paying
Speaker 1: attention to it. She ain't. La Poe used to try
Speaker 1: to hate on Atlanta all the time on the side
Speaker 1: side conversations. Um this, this next question is gonna resonate
Speaker 1: heavy in here. And I'll be the first to say,
Speaker 1: I am one that really tries to find the value
Speaker 1: in Virgil and not that you know. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm most proud that he is the first American of
Speaker 1: African descent ascent, I mean decent to lead a men's
Speaker 1: fashion house in you know, French fashion house. But I mean,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, I said it earlier. We wanna take chapter.
Speaker 1: He is the first American of African descent to be
Speaker 1: named artistic director at a French luxury fashion house. Um,
Speaker 1: but I you know, I had a bad experience. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm a host. I host all over the world, and
Speaker 1: he ran in the booth when he was gonna DJ
Speaker 1: after Q tipping Oye one time, and he was just
Speaker 1: so arrogant. So every since then, I've been trying to
Speaker 1: hate on him, but I can't. I can't. I try.
Speaker 1: I'm like skining. I'm a scorpio. I tried, and but
Speaker 1: I can't because I think his offering is too special.
Speaker 1: But I want to read this and then after we
Speaker 1: give you our opinions, I want to know your opinion
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna fry him a little bit. Virgil recently
Speaker 1: made these comments. Uh, on days Virgils say wow, I
Speaker 1: would definitely say it's gonna die. He's referring to street
Speaker 1: where like it's time will be up in my mind.
Speaker 1: How many more T shirts can we own? How many
Speaker 1: more hoodies? How many sneakers? I think like we're gonna
Speaker 1: hit this like really awesome state of expressed. This is
Speaker 1: his words, expressing your knowledge and personal style with vintage.
Speaker 1: There are so many clothes that are cool that are
Speaker 1: inventage shops, Like people don't already shop inventage shops, and
Speaker 1: it's just about wearing them. I think that fashion is
Speaker 1: gonna go away from buying a box fresh something. It'll
Speaker 1: be like, hey, I'm gonna go into my archive. Scott,
Speaker 1: I know you're a vintage shopper. Now this is true,
Speaker 1: not in ten years. Talk to your people. Well, first
Speaker 1: of all, I have I kind of have like two
Speaker 1: different opinions on I'm gonna pay play Devil's advocate on
Speaker 1: my own opinion politically correct, I'll be the asshole. I
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit bit of an asshole in this
Speaker 1: situation too. Okay. I was a little a little disrespected
Speaker 1: by this because, first of all, you have the most
Speaker 1: popular streetwear clothing brand and you are saying that it's
Speaker 1: gonna die. So I'm just trying to figure out, are
Speaker 1: you just trying to push the culture for a second
Speaker 1: and then pull out, or like, where are we going
Speaker 1: with this? Where are we going? One side, it's just
Speaker 1: one side. The other side, we're very excited to hear um.
Speaker 1: The other side. I have been shopping in thrift store
Speaker 1: since I was in a stroller with my grandmother. UM.
Speaker 1: There's no piece, no outfit that I go out and
Speaker 1: that does not have a vintage something a part of it.
Speaker 1: This UM. So I am personally excited that he feels
Speaker 1: like there is um a new hope for the vintage world,
Speaker 1: but it hasn't gone anywhere. There is an entire subculture
Speaker 1: of people that specifically go to thrift stores to find
Speaker 1: personal pieces to accident outfits. So they'll go to Niemans
Speaker 1: and find an outfit, and then they'll go to a
Speaker 1: thrift store and find a brooch as an accent piece.
Speaker 1: So it's not we're still doing that. Um. But I
Speaker 1: guess I'm okay with him shutting some lights, Renaldo, for
Speaker 1: him to be boldly, to feel like you're bigger than
Speaker 1: what made you, it's kind of weird. Um. So that
Speaker 1: and for me personally, streetwear would never die because I
Speaker 1: was raised in the streets, and so streets is a
Speaker 1: guy that is fresh cut. Your cameras on my my
Speaker 1: O g s and the guys that I looked too,
Speaker 1: you know, in Miami, we wore Dickie fits and Wallabies
Speaker 1: and Chucks and and Clark's and my uncle's and they
Speaker 1: told me, don't you ever get dirty. And I just
Speaker 1: give you money because all the girls gonna love as
Speaker 1: long as you look good and you smell good. And
Speaker 1: I live by that model. Is that true? So you
Speaker 1: want to thug? I know you. But I see all
Speaker 1: of this to say, a street where it's just not
Speaker 1: one genre is like music. You cannot take away something
Speaker 1: that impact the world. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: Atlanta is a big representation of streetwear. Street where is
Speaker 1: just not Streetwears high ended me. Also, you get what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, the evolution that we're starting, And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just say this to be honest at Wish, it's a
Speaker 1: new definition of what street wear is gonna be. We're
Speaker 1: gonna raise that standard. So when he says that Streetwears
Speaker 1: did something, say, well, listen, when you come to rich
Speaker 1: you're gonna pay homage to Atlanta, hold on to say
Speaker 1: street where it is dead. You gotta be from the
Speaker 1: motherfucker streets. You cannot say I had to. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: As long as there is it, as long as there's
Speaker 1: a middle class and a local class, there's always gonna
Speaker 1: be street This is my issue. I'm sorry. Cars, you
Speaker 1: get some burnings up, that's fine. You know, we talk
Speaker 1: about culture vultures and we talk about them being white,
Speaker 1: but we have our own culture voltures. How do you
Speaker 1: create a brand called Pires? I got it on? Actually,
Speaker 1: how do you how do you create a brand called Pyres?
Speaker 1: And you can't tell me off white? Don't mean you
Speaker 1: hear me? And I'm just confused. How when you're ready
Speaker 1: to move on in the sin you leave a whole
Speaker 1: culture behind. I'm sorry, you going? I got something else
Speaker 1: say after your qual well, I come from a different
Speaker 1: era where when you actually bought fashion, it was almost
Speaker 1: like buying a piece of art. So at this point,
Speaker 1: right now, three quals with you. You know, fashion is
Speaker 1: at the point where when you're buying a hoodie, it's
Speaker 1: almost like you're paying twelve hundred dollars for a hoodie,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you see it on
Speaker 1: self like three dollars. You realize that it's it's oversaturated,
Speaker 1: there's no more value to it, and everybody's gonna have it.
Speaker 1: So that's the game right there, right where mass production
Speaker 1: takes place. And then he he mentions that street was
Speaker 1: that because he's made his money. Now he's moving on
Speaker 1: to other things. But can I say one more thing
Speaker 1: to hold on? Come on, like skin brother, let me
Speaker 1: just say one more And then another issue that I had.
Speaker 1: You're not from Chicago? Hold on fashion? Is he from Chicago?
Speaker 1: Is he? That's what I wanted to say that man
Speaker 1: out there, wait is the leg hold on, Zoe? Is
Speaker 1: he from Chicago? Because you know I'm from DC, but
Speaker 1: people from Alexander, Virginia say they're from DC, Oxy Hill, Maryland.
Speaker 1: Is he from Chicago zough so so. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you a quick story though. In Vegas almost fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago, I was in Vegas with my golfer, the
Speaker 1: John Monopoly and him and I saw this fashion geek
Speaker 1: ron Stone hoodie going up this escalator. I chased him
Speaker 1: all the way down. It was like, you got to
Speaker 1: give me one of these. I never got it, because
Speaker 1: this is why he was ahead of his time. He
Speaker 1: was doing a rhymestone with the geek that Kanye Ward
Speaker 1: and everybody went crazy over. I sent him a text
Speaker 1: a couple of months ago, maybe a year ago. I said, brother, listen,
Speaker 1: you have to bring the geetback with the ron Stone hoodies.
Speaker 1: All right, Gee, I got you. Next month later, Chinatown
Speaker 1: Market came out with the same hoodie with the same colors,
Speaker 1: with the Roon Stone. When I tell you, I called
Speaker 1: him and I was livid because he is the street
Speaker 1: where God to me, thank you for flying down here
Speaker 1: to give it up for Alonzo jact Right. You know,
Speaker 1: I had to have somebody from Chicago on here if
Speaker 1: I was gonna talk ship, and then let me talk
Speaker 1: about ship. So let's go back to him saying that
Speaker 1: Vintage will be the experience in ten years. It's because
Speaker 1: he's making all that big boxing ship that's going out
Speaker 1: of style, and this is we're self serving. Sue for heroes.
Speaker 1: Get on my motherfucking nerves. You gotta always remember you
Speaker 1: from the Kanye School of University. Jear mean. But all
Speaker 1: I'm saying to y'all is as leaders in your prospective fields,
Speaker 1: as responsible humans, we have to deliver messages that are
Speaker 1: not self service. This is a selfless life, or it
Speaker 1: should be. And I think he said that my personal opinion.
Speaker 1: I don't know if any of the Fantastic Four Greek,
Speaker 1: but he said that because all the ship he making
Speaker 1: that is gonna be in the thrust though, say nobody
Speaker 1: can want that ship and ten years. That's my personal opinion. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm amazed that he is the first American of African descent.
Speaker 1: What I say earlier, I want to say that again
Speaker 1: because I'm very proud of that, and that takes us
Speaker 1: further and further in our plight to get what we
Speaker 1: came for. I am saying, though, it is irresponsible for
Speaker 1: you to take streetwear culture, launch your career and then
Speaker 1: say nah, it's gonna be done. It's never gonna be done.
Speaker 1: As long as poor people have vision and want to create,
Speaker 1: the streets will matter. And there's always going to be
Speaker 1: a disparity in class. You know this. So I just
Speaker 1: want us to be focused and hold people responsible but
Speaker 1: also giving their credit because again I am proud that
Speaker 1: he is the first American of African Dissett descent to
Speaker 1: be in the Fashion House. Now what I wanna do
Speaker 1: is I'm gonna pick a couple of people. Now, it's
Speaker 1: some free game going on in here. So if you
Speaker 1: have questions I've been getting d m s, please feel
Speaker 1: free to ask them. But if you have a question
Speaker 1: and or comment, I just like you to raise your hand.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send Aaron to you and you can get
Speaker 1: your things off. You got somebody already first and foremost,
Speaker 1: thank you all for coming. My name is Joshua Burrell
Speaker 1: and my Moorhouse College Junior Cinema, Television and Emergent Media
Speaker 1: Studies Major and Generalism minor from Maryland, Paris in Southeast
Speaker 1: Family already right front boat black bas lifestyle. But um,
Speaker 1: all right, come closer to the stage. I want to
Speaker 1: see your face on stage. Oh, standing standing right there?
Speaker 1: All right, let's go, all right, so, um, considering all
Speaker 1: things considered, UM, how do you all think street street
Speaker 1: fashion would develop away from fast fashion or high fashion
Speaker 1: and take more of a local or regional urban influence.
Speaker 1: For example, a lot of my friends make clothes, and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that, you know, we're gonna go from less
Speaker 1: of Glucci and Proud and things like that too. Like, uh,
Speaker 1: my friend makes some nice clothes, I want to buy
Speaker 1: that off him. And I'm gonna represent myself through the
Speaker 1: people around me what they make, you know. So what well,
Speaker 1: I think when you have UM the great world and
Speaker 1: the great family over there, I wish UM were more
Speaker 1: in supporting the community in Atlanta, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And my thing was, as I became a creative director,
Speaker 1: I wanted to take Atlanta to the world and to
Speaker 1: showcase young talented designers that deserve that right and to
Speaker 1: make them as high fashion respected as Gucci, Louis and
Speaker 1: all these other respected brands. And it all just come
Speaker 1: to the point that the community has to support y'all.
Speaker 1: If I see a young designer and yourself is fired
Speaker 1: by it, I have them presented to the gods that
Speaker 1: maybe a wish to say, listen, I believe in this brand,
Speaker 1: that this brand deserves to be represented in our story.
Speaker 1: That the world looks at as an establishment of Wish
Speaker 1: because once the young designer gets into that store, that
Speaker 1: changes your life. So then when Barney's or somebody come
Speaker 1: talk to you, now you have the legs and that
Speaker 1: this city and this foundation of Wish supported us. So
Speaker 1: the thing is that the community, we just have to
Speaker 1: get behind the young designers and push y'all just as
Speaker 1: well if we're gonna push anything else that is major. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Sky and I had the opportunity to come to Clark
Speaker 1: Atlanta University UM during the Revolt Music Conference and there
Speaker 1: was a festival of sorts really, I mean market Thursdays. See,
Speaker 1: she's not far removed from college twenty seven years off,
Speaker 1: that motherfucker. But what you need to think about, young blood,
Speaker 1: you need to think about how can you put your
Speaker 1: clothes or your friends clothes on someone's back. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of times, especially in the city like Atlanta,
Speaker 1: people are like, how can I get on what? They
Speaker 1: walk through Lenox every day, They walk through phips every
Speaker 1: day to buy something. Run up on them. You see
Speaker 1: them little kids out there trying to sell water and
Speaker 1: canny and everything else. Gon't sell your clothes, and I would.
Speaker 1: I would encourage your friends even on a market Thursday situation.
Speaker 1: You know, I remember when I was at the end
Speaker 1: of au See, the formally defunct Morris Brown. Anybody okay, great,
Speaker 1: but I would encourage the au See to figure out
Speaker 1: some type of unity or union rather where you can
Speaker 1: put those collectors together and have an offering like a
Speaker 1: market Thursday. I think it's a beautiful way. You're good,
Speaker 1: thank you for your course, and we got one more
Speaker 1: course and coming. Okay, let's go. Hi. I'm Ada. I
Speaker 1: am the co founder of a brand called floor Plan,
Speaker 1: and we do thematic retail experiences that change on a
Speaker 1: yearly basis. And I wanted to know how um as,
Speaker 1: Macy's and other big box retailers are closing. How can
Speaker 1: new emerging retailers um help streetwear brands, beauty brands, um
Speaker 1: these emerging entrepreneurs thrive. Well, I have to So what
Speaker 1: is that to ask you a question? Right now? In
Speaker 1: our new era this social media. So social media is
Speaker 1: one of the things where you can actually, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of promote your business. And for the most part,
Speaker 1: have you ever worked at a retail job at all
Speaker 1: pop pop hotels, pop up shop, popp shops. Okay, so um,
Speaker 1: you know with me, my personal experience started off with
Speaker 1: my first job. Like I said earlier, it was Lord
Speaker 1: and Taylored, and then I moved on to J Crew
Speaker 1: and after J Crew was pulled Sport and once I
Speaker 1: stted into the rough Lauren world, it was amazing the
Speaker 1: fact that this man just created his lifestyle and I
Speaker 1: crossed over the men's suits. So um, I learned so much.
Speaker 1: It was like to go into like a school of fashion,
Speaker 1: you know. And as you know, fashion changes, what goes
Speaker 1: around comes around. So um. For this particular question, I
Speaker 1: would say to actually keeps driving and don't give up
Speaker 1: and keep promoing your brand. And um, also be specific
Speaker 1: about your target market, you know, because a lot of
Speaker 1: times I've noticed in Atlanta people kind of think, oh,
Speaker 1: a sweatshirt and a T shirt, it's a cloth line.
Speaker 1: No it's not. It's a whole collection and there has
Speaker 1: to be a certain lifestyle behind it. Also, you know,
Speaker 1: if you look at um, well, people don't know. Andre
Speaker 1: three thousand had a cold aline called Benjamin Bigby, and
Speaker 1: Benjamin Biggsby actually launched at Barney's and also launched it
Speaker 1: um Nemon Marcus, and most people really weren't aware of
Speaker 1: it at the time. Um, they actually pulled it because
Speaker 1: it was the cells are pretty low and it was
Speaker 1: kind of like a spinoff of Ralph Lauren. It was
Speaker 1: the Quesrian lifestyle where he sold you to for jacket,
Speaker 1: the rugby shirts and so on. Um. So my thing
Speaker 1: is most boutiques and vendors wanted to actually see a lifestyle,
Speaker 1: you know, if it's like a question lifestyle, or if
Speaker 1: it's like a you know, if I don't have a
Speaker 1: cycling or something like that, if it's just a hoodie
Speaker 1: and a saying it's kind of like black you know. Um.
Speaker 1: But one thing again, the fact that this is a
Speaker 1: Virgil show and we're honoring him. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: cool things that you well, to be honest with you, minimentistically,
Speaker 1: he's impeccable and he's done so me political things in
Speaker 1: fashion that if you're able to see it, you don't
Speaker 1: understand it. So it has to be a message behind
Speaker 1: your fashion sense, you know, because you gotta you can't
Speaker 1: think for yourself. Sometimes you gotta start slowly and gradually.
Speaker 1: Once people get ahold of your brand, then you can
Speaker 1: express yourself freely. UM. One thing before the gentleman screamed
Speaker 1: out breaking mortar, I personally think that you don't need
Speaker 1: department stores. I think if you are in your perspective
Speaker 1: markets and you want to have a foundation by property
Speaker 1: and sell your stuff on your property, I think that
Speaker 1: you know, we to Quasis Point. We have an opportunity
Speaker 1: with social media that is unheard of, so there's an
Speaker 1: online component. But I think people want to see you.
Speaker 1: I think they want to see your brand. I think
Speaker 1: they want to have an experience. And like the gentleman said,
Speaker 1: I don't know who said it, but I think that
Speaker 1: it should be some ownership in the properties. A lot
Speaker 1: of this rent and I mean you've been renting, you
Speaker 1: know for fourteen years years and yeah, but there's nothing
Speaker 1: like owning your property and paying it off and having
Speaker 1: your stuff for self. UM. Agree. I also want to
Speaker 1: let you guys know that you guys are doing an
Speaker 1: amazing job and like, you guys are absolutely amazing. You
Speaker 1: guys just opened and you guys are making waves. So
Speaker 1: congratulations to you guys on that. Um, but also continue
Speaker 1: creating this world around the brand. The brand is new
Speaker 1: right now. But that doesn't mean that you can't create
Speaker 1: this like this world around it. So figure out exactly
Speaker 1: who who you're targeting and then push that create these
Speaker 1: pop ups in there, and then also move your spaces.
Speaker 1: Is is like concrete for now. But also you said
Speaker 1: your background is in pop up shops. Do pop up
Speaker 1: shops in Atlanta that push your business back to your
Speaker 1: brick and mortar. That's fine. The city is big and
Speaker 1: it's also small, but people talk. So make sure you
Speaker 1: create this world and then also bring the business back.
Speaker 1: And I agree with the pop ups. I agree with
Speaker 1: the problem thing that actually works till as visuals. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a lifestyle again, even when you're working at the
Speaker 1: workshop or getting ready to set up your shops, doing
Speaker 1: a short from a short film to kind of show
Speaker 1: the world what you're working on and people are really
Speaker 1: loving the nada's or even go live online. You know,
Speaker 1: just don't buy your don't buy your likes and their followers.
Speaker 1: We got some more dope people, dope questions. My name
Speaker 1: is Anita Brian. I'm from d C, havingue okay, real
Speaker 1: d C. Yeah, what I wanted to ask you is
Speaker 1: n d C. There are designers that are trying to
Speaker 1: amp up the manufacturing and infrastructure. I'm wondering what you
Speaker 1: guys are doing to improve manufacturing of your products, to
Speaker 1: create jobs and give you all longevity. Yes, well, first
Speaker 1: and foremost, I was inspired from Washington, d C. To
Speaker 1: do fashion in general. When I was growing up. Do
Speaker 1: y'all remember EU the butt to younger? So there was
Speaker 1: something they're not too young. Everybody know the butt, but
Speaker 1: there was a video that you might not remember, and
Speaker 1: they had this this this store called the Madness Shop.
Speaker 1: And the Madness Shop inspired me beyond belief because it
Speaker 1: was the neighborhood shop and they would always make clothes
Speaker 1: to match back to your sneakers. I see, you know
Speaker 1: remnants of that in Chicago with fashion geeks O. Not
Speaker 1: that he got it from d C, but just the
Speaker 1: neighborhood shop is always respected um and value because you know,
Speaker 1: they grew up with the person, They know the person,
Speaker 1: they know the authenticity behind the brand, as far as
Speaker 1: as far as fortifying opportunities and you know, manufacturing for
Speaker 1: smaller companies. I think like my my son is for
Speaker 1: fifteen years old. He has a clothing I called b RNs.
Speaker 1: His mom and I to your point of pop ups.
Speaker 1: Went to our friend on our first collection and he
Speaker 1: gave us his store free or charge. We made forty
Speaker 1: two tho allars two days. He didn't charge me. But
Speaker 1: I think those are the things that help business. We
Speaker 1: are a community, we are a village. It takes a village.
Speaker 1: If I know manufacturers, printers, graphic designers, I'm totally willing
Speaker 1: to share um. And I think a lot of time
Speaker 1: as creatives, y'all, we don't want to share because we
Speaker 1: think that someone's gonna steal our swag where no one
Speaker 1: can do you like you. That's one and then too,
Speaker 1: if you're a real creative, a new idea comes up
Speaker 1: in the middle of the in the middleseconds. So don't
Speaker 1: be afraid to lend um your um, manufacturers, your distributors,
Speaker 1: your creative graphic designers, people that you know can help
Speaker 1: someone out because you know, just like the question back
Speaker 1: to department stores, that's that's that those are dinosaurs. People
Speaker 1: aren't even consuming in stories like they used to. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna take new creative ways and obviously us helping
Speaker 1: each other to go forward. Anybody else, I gotta hand
Speaker 1: the MinC ring Okay, there we go. I would like
Speaker 1: to ask some clarity to a lot of the Atlanta questions.
Speaker 1: I'm from Atlanta to the west man, Um, yeah, Um.
Speaker 1: We were not a joke, Sky Yeah. And we were
Speaker 1: not country Kenny. We considered southern. This is just a
Speaker 1: southern area. Hey, don't you ever despect your brother, your
Speaker 1: big brother in public? You you not being from You're
Speaker 1: not being from like being from out of that. I
Speaker 1: was providing clarity. Yes, So as streetwear designers, I totally
Speaker 1: understand what Bertha was saying because urban berth streetwear, and
Speaker 1: if you remember, urban doesn't exist anymore. So a hat
Speaker 1: streetwear has to birth something new, it has to evolve.
Speaker 1: That's what fashion does. And because he's in that position,
Speaker 1: he's not leaving us my arm. He's telling us that
Speaker 1: we were designing thirty five dollar T shirts. Now we
Speaker 1: can design three hundred dollar shirts and a luxury platform.
Speaker 1: So if we follow the path that he's making, then
Speaker 1: we're able to put ourselves in a position to not
Speaker 1: only like thrive like ad is asking, or like young
Speaker 1: Man is asking, we can now make real profits and
Speaker 1: actually make a life from being designers. It's a very
Speaker 1: difficult path. Preach the math actually designed the first collection
Speaker 1: for my son's first, second, and third. Thank you gonna
Speaker 1: say that, thank you, no, no, But I agree with um.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to the next question. But I agree
Speaker 1: a dent where the evolution conversation comes in. But the
Speaker 1: word street is never going anywhere. Where is going anywhere.
Speaker 1: So however you phrase it, however you want to call
Speaker 1: black people urban, all that ship is connotation. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the spirit and the selfishness, sorry, the self the
Speaker 1: selfishness of the statement, and that that's where we now.
Speaker 1: This is the first American of African descent in the
Speaker 1: luxury house. You have the world on your shoulders, you
Speaker 1: have the responsibility of generations on your shoulders. You cannot
Speaker 1: discourage someone who is in the streets from creating. That's discouraging.
Speaker 1: And we'll go to the next question. But thank you
Speaker 1: d Matt for clarifying all of that. First off, I
Speaker 1: am or everything you guys are doing. UM. I really
Speaker 1: love what you do. H Kenny um with just from
Speaker 1: college being the promoter all the way to what you've
Speaker 1: done now and the legacy if you created you Um.
Speaker 1: But my question is where in a moment did you guys,
Speaker 1: turn your passion into a legacy that you've created and
Speaker 1: a business for yourself. Um, because at one point you
Speaker 1: were just a fly kid in high school or you
Speaker 1: were just a popular kid in college. Um, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of something that you know, I've always kind of
Speaker 1: thought about myself. That's a great question. Thank you for
Speaker 1: shouting me out. Um. You know what, who was popping
Speaker 1: before Instagram? Individually? They put the motherfucking hands down. So
Speaker 1: for me, I think I realized my superpowers when it
Speaker 1: became no longer about me and the first time I
Speaker 1: got some real money, I took all of my best friends,
Speaker 1: gave him forty thousand dollars a year, and we moved
Speaker 1: to California, And I felt like growing up as friends,
Speaker 1: it was my responsibility because we said we were gonna
Speaker 1: do things together. When we moved to California, we started
Speaker 1: this record Labe. We had a girl group called Dream.
Speaker 1: He loved Me. He looked okay, great, biggest debut girl
Speaker 1: groups behind Spice Girls. But when I started happening, everybody's
Speaker 1: passion and started to arise. I think, you know, in life,
Speaker 1: you think that you know your friends supposed to go
Speaker 1: with you they're gonna go with you all the way.
Speaker 1: I think for me that was defined the defining moment.
Speaker 1: I knew I had things to offer. I knew that
Speaker 1: I can offer them to millions of people, and not
Speaker 1: just the tend that moved with me to UM to
Speaker 1: l A. But I think that was a defining moment.
Speaker 1: And then it was about teaching people what I know.
Speaker 1: You know, d Nice and I had this thing called
Speaker 1: the Nice and Burn Show, and we're creating a curriculum
Speaker 1: where we're gonna college and universities of because all history
Speaker 1: is his stories about things that happened in the past.
Speaker 1: All English is are really kind of stories of things
Speaker 1: that happened in the past. And I think hip hop culture, uh,
Speaker 1: lifestyle culture now, um, black culture, UM, it's so important
Speaker 1: to share what we know. And I think that was
Speaker 1: the defining moment for me because I wanted to share
Speaker 1: what I knew. I had an unconventional story at a
Speaker 1: non traditional blueprint. I was convicted fella in at eighteen,
Speaker 1: single mother, like the whole If if I was to
Speaker 1: post a child put on the screen and they don't
Speaker 1: have it, if I was to post a child for
Speaker 1: he ain't gonna make it it would have it had
Speaker 1: been that. So I just think that you know selflessness. Guys.
Speaker 1: This goes back to my dear from from d C.
Speaker 1: Like we have to share all the information, we have
Speaker 1: to share all the information. We can't hold all the
Speaker 1: information so close to our chest that other people cannot
Speaker 1: benefit from because I think that we're doing a disservice.
Speaker 1: But that was when't I jumped off the porch my
Speaker 1: question to you. And of course I understand all of
Speaker 1: y'all of the business. I've been to your DMS before
Speaker 1: and act about three years about being a mentor. But Kenny,
Speaker 1: I'm asking you when up Ronaldo, why is we? Why
Speaker 1: is you? Why? But real talk on the most non
Speaker 1: social media person. It's not respect. It's not respect. I
Speaker 1: ain't you know. I ain't throwing you under the bus place.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm shine. But no real talk though, um
Speaker 1: and I actually opened it up for all for you
Speaker 1: because the clothes mouth don't get fed if you will
Speaker 1: be open to a possibly mentoring me because I want
Speaker 1: to take my man at this point, I work with
Speaker 1: a mayor. I actually have a cultural fest day in
Speaker 1: my city and the Goustor, Georgia August Um, so we've
Speaker 1: been doing. She shooting hold on, hold on, she's shooting
Speaker 1: the hell out her shot. Give her the mike, give mike.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this, hold on auto, and then you
Speaker 1: can defend yourself. I tell everybody that wants to be mentor,
Speaker 1: let me see your face in the place. If you're
Speaker 1: around me enough and we have a conversation, we connect.
Speaker 1: It's organic, it's easy. So don't nobody asked that ship
Speaker 1: the rest of the night. But but I'm I'm anyone
Speaker 1: in here that knows me. I speak to everybody. I
Speaker 1: answered every question if I'm in the vicinity. But I
Speaker 1: think the best way for you to get on is
Speaker 1: to show people what you have to offer and we'll
Speaker 1: go forward. You want to find yourself, and she fried
Speaker 1: you a little bit. She's a she's a queen. I
Speaker 1: her bro. I don't go back and forthard On. But
Speaker 1: who got the next question? Y'all? Um, so can't you
Speaker 1: be my mentor? No? I'm just so I'm from Atlanta
Speaker 1: and went to Howard, So you know, you know, so
Speaker 1: coming from Atlanta and going to Howard, I feel like
Speaker 1: that kind of made me think differently about fashion. Um,
Speaker 1: but I kind of want to bring the conversation back
Speaker 1: to Virgil and Eat and Dapper Dan, like why why
Speaker 1: is it that we have to attach to these high
Speaker 1: fashion brands? Like there's so many designers in Atlanta, d
Speaker 1: C l A, New York that have popping ship, to
Speaker 1: be honest, so it's like why does why do we
Speaker 1: have to attach to high fashion? Like why can't we
Speaker 1: seek out these people on social media and use that
Speaker 1: and then when you do get the platform. As Virgil,
Speaker 1: people talk about his attitude all the time. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't say which way, but Dapper Dan, even on
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club, he kind of was on some I'm
Speaker 1: trying to be international. It's like, when you get to
Speaker 1: a certain level, you leave the community behind that basically
Speaker 1: gave you all your swag, everything that you have, all
Speaker 1: your making. Well, let let me just cut it out
Speaker 1: on the situation is not accurate. Dan. In the eighties
Speaker 1: he would still basically from M C M Gucci, but
Speaker 1: he was the hottest thing cracking. So he got in
Speaker 1: some issues with that and couldn't really do it. But
Speaker 1: the God works some mysterious ways. He designed a particular
Speaker 1: garment that was his design, his pattern, his thought right
Speaker 1: Gucci remade it and didn't ask him, and then he
Speaker 1: went to Gucci and said, you know this man, seventy
Speaker 1: something years old, y'all took my design. I want you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, my hall of half a dash
Speaker 1: to get back pot and that that's basically what happened
Speaker 1: to that. And I and I want to say this,
Speaker 1: that's rare in general, but for him to get his dude,
Speaker 1: please God give it all to him now because he
Speaker 1: he had a big guy from the eighties to the
Speaker 1: two thousand, nineteen eighteen before he really saw his dude.
Speaker 1: So you know, um, I just help people to do
Speaker 1: what they say. Don't talk about it. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: support somebody. If a guy said you're my teasher called
Speaker 1: fifty dollars, bro, I'm not gonna ask you for no discount,
Speaker 1: but give the man his fifty dollars, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. The same way, if your friend that's in
Speaker 1: this circle or anybody that's in here, just because you
Speaker 1: don't see a celebrity wear it, that doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: it's high it's not high fashion, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it's like everybody in here put that same effort
Speaker 1: and live by what you say. If you say that
Speaker 1: you want to support and get these young designers to
Speaker 1: this pedestal, that's what I do as a stolear for
Speaker 1: fifteen years. I could say in this room, I don't
Speaker 1: put designers on celebrities and gave them a look of life.
Speaker 1: You get what I'm saying, And I can stand by
Speaker 1: that and guess what. I gave the designers what they
Speaker 1: asked for, and I gave them the money to hould
Speaker 1: support you. Because if I didn't know you, I still
Speaker 1: would have brought it anyway. So it's just like, you
Speaker 1: just gotta live bout what you You believe in what
Speaker 1: you say, and I come from a different code. So
Speaker 1: if I believe in you, I'm brock with you, even
Speaker 1: if you're sitting beside a Louis and yourself is in
Speaker 1: the same store. If I like it, I'm gonna buy
Speaker 1: you this first on my walk out. And that's what
Speaker 1: it has to be. But we gotta stop hating on
Speaker 1: each other. The egos gotta go out of the way.
Speaker 1: This is the problem people. Black and brown people the
Speaker 1: biggest haters in the world. And until we support each other,
Speaker 1: like is there a baby. Is there a whole baby
Speaker 1: and it's my mother, give me, give me my baby.
Speaker 1: I thought I was hearing ship, But I think I
Speaker 1: think the problem is and the ultimate answer to your
Speaker 1: question is we would be better off from a you know,
Speaker 1: fashion standpoint, if we supported each other. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of amazing designers in the world that just don't get
Speaker 1: half the chance because oh now I'm gonna get that
Speaker 1: balanc of y'all. I'm gonna go get that whatever. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And it's cool to have all
Speaker 1: of that. It's cool to be, but involve your community
Speaker 1: as well. Hi, how is everybody doing? Um? When you
Speaker 1: asked the question, you said, how does Virgil inspire Atlanta?
Speaker 1: Immediately my mind went to how does Atlanta inspire Virgil?
Speaker 1: Because at the end of the day, Um, I used
Speaker 1: to work at Louis Batton. I worked there for about
Speaker 1: two years. I've seen I'll call some people. I've seen
Speaker 1: a couple of guys in there. Um, no, you only
Speaker 1: work with no but anyway, UM know, but I ain't
Speaker 1: working with any anyway. I ain't working with Claude no more.
Speaker 1: Claude is like a total sweetheart. Yes he does so Anyway,
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is we inspire the streets. We I
Speaker 1: mean fashion, the streets inspire fashion that happened even back
Speaker 1: from the eighties, even further than that. So you know
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say is Atlanta Vaton is about
Speaker 1: to go to two stories. Okay, this is before Virgil
Speaker 1: even got on, So it's not a coincidence that he
Speaker 1: has his exhibit here in Atlanta. Atlanta has the highest
Speaker 1: sales associate in the Louis Batton Company in in America.
Speaker 1: I mean, probably saying too much, but um, and it's
Speaker 1: he's in men's he's in men'swear. So, um, if you
Speaker 1: go inside of Louis Baton, are you go inside of
Speaker 1: a lot of those high end stores, it's streetwear, it's
Speaker 1: hip hop. It's a lack of people. So streetwear is
Speaker 1: never going anywhere. Hip hop is never going anywhere, like
Speaker 1: people are never going anywhere. So you know, it's just
Speaker 1: kind of preposterous to me the way he kind of like,
Speaker 1: you know, said that. I just thought that that was
Speaker 1: just real. So to answer your question, though, he has
Speaker 1: people that's from Atlanta around him. You got in Connor,
Speaker 1: you got my brother Blue that with two change that
Speaker 1: just did the virginal discount. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: He has the South around him because we are everything
Speaker 1: from the back when James Brown and everybody stole his style.
Speaker 1: He is influenced because he's paying attention to Atlanta, because
Speaker 1: people from Atlanta is telling him what it's cool. Once
Speaker 1: you come to Atlanta, there is nowhere else in the
Speaker 1: world that like this. When you get off that off
Speaker 1: that plane, the energy that you feel here is never
Speaker 1: nowhere else ever in life, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So like, even when I go to Paris on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: they represent with wish, They're gonna know that I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna drop that. You're right when they see me, they
Speaker 1: go and guess what, I'm wearing Atlanta designers the whole
Speaker 1: time I got my whole outfit. I'm wearing runchy the
Speaker 1: first day I'm when all friends welcome to the next day,
Speaker 1: I don't represent everybody. That's so when somebody watching they
Speaker 1: see me walking, They're gonna say, bro, whatre you I'm
Speaker 1: from Atlanta while I live in Atlanta. That's the best
Speaker 1: thing in the world is that? So if you want this,
Speaker 1: you gotta come to Atlanta, come to Wish and we're
Speaker 1: gonna supply you, and then you go back home and
Speaker 1: you tell the world where you got it from. So
Speaker 1: trust me when I'm it's gonna be respected. That's why
Speaker 1: the outcast muror is over there a little five points,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So he is respected and
Speaker 1: and he has had an influence around him every day.
Speaker 1: Trust me. So it's all right, little baby, we got there.
Speaker 1: All right. I appreciate you all. What's going on? How
Speaker 1: y'all doing South American New York? And I've been in
Speaker 1: Atlanta for about fifteen years. My question is it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a little off pointing, but uh, Nipsey hustle been
Speaker 1: getting that new legend non legend kind of status. But
Speaker 1: the same thing for streetwear. Um, I've been shopping that
Speaker 1: motive for for since it started. Since respect new buildings
Speaker 1: that Wish. I'm trying to get some of that Coca Cola,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I see you, I see you,
Speaker 1: Kenny Burns. Um, But how can we give our flowers
Speaker 1: to the new street where the new street legend? Because
Speaker 1: I'm definitely a consumer. A lot of what I got
Speaker 1: on is just been paid for on the regular. I
Speaker 1: ain't designer, I ain't coming up. But how can we
Speaker 1: give flowers to the new street where the old street where?
Speaker 1: Or the Atlanta Street where as a whole I'd say,
Speaker 1: go by their whole collection. Now every time they do
Speaker 1: a pop up, every time they dropped them, go by
Speaker 1: the whole thing Atlanta, Atlanta fashion is up for grabs,
Speaker 1: Atlanta Street where is up for grabs there? To your point,
Speaker 1: there's nobody leading the pack that everyone across the world
Speaker 1: has to have. I think it has to be supported
Speaker 1: locally before can be supported worldwide. The efforts that everyone here,
Speaker 1: from Quasi putting in his store, from you know, Ronaldo
Speaker 1: putting it in his store, from Scott just being fly like,
Speaker 1: I think you have to literally support it and I
Speaker 1: don't know, you know. To to his point, yes, by
Speaker 1: it where it, But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: tell people about it and you know, and that's the
Speaker 1: only way we can grow and own fashion like we
Speaker 1: own music. And I think that also this is this
Speaker 1: conversation is coming full circle because it has a whole
Speaker 1: pop up like experience where the clothes could be in
Speaker 1: her store. When they're in her store, you can buy
Speaker 1: them and this is a cycle. So we have literally
Speaker 1: in this room. We have the designers, we have the
Speaker 1: brick and mortar, we have the promoters, we have the fashionists.
Speaker 1: Everybody is here. It's just about utilizing each other. Come on,
Speaker 1: we got three more questions out here. What name is
Speaker 1: a mirror? I got a clothing line called a Miyor James.
Speaker 1: And my question is how do we develop a fashion
Speaker 1: house of our own to build that value for for
Speaker 1: black designers. We got a gang of talent out here.
Speaker 1: How do we develop a fashion house of our own
Speaker 1: to cultivate the talent to bring it up and through. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I say it's here. What we said it a couple
Speaker 1: of times is here. But you know, brick and mortar
Speaker 1: is a smart way if you want a fashion house,
Speaker 1: to build your own fashion house, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: think that there's you know, there's a guy by the
Speaker 1: name of Howdiaki who does custom clothing, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if y'all know what he's doing, but he has
Speaker 1: five floors of awesomeness from lounges to be spoke areas,
Speaker 1: to get fitted to play pool wash TV. So I
Speaker 1: think you gotta build it. You build it they will come.
Speaker 1: My name's LaToya. I'm from North Carolina and my question
Speaker 1: is for Sky, what advice would you give to other
Speaker 1: young women trying to enter into a Caucasian or male
Speaker 1: dominated field such as fashion and set design? And how
Speaker 1: do you enter into some of these environments if you're
Speaker 1: not really were I'm not really sure where to begin at.
Speaker 1: I've been waiting for that question. Thank you very much
Speaker 1: for asking. As the only woman on this panel right now,
Speaker 1: I would like to to speak to my ladies. UM.
Speaker 1: It is quite difficult, and it takes a lot of
Speaker 1: time and perseverance and thick skin, and that comes from
Speaker 1: being knocked down many times by many different situations. But
Speaker 1: if you have, if you know for a fact that
Speaker 1: that whatever you're doing is exactly what God puts you
Speaker 1: on this earth for, there's literally nothing that anybody else
Speaker 1: can do to you, Like you literally get knocked down
Speaker 1: and you wake up in the morning and you think
Speaker 1: to yourself, like, well, what else would I be doing
Speaker 1: with my life? This is what the funk I want
Speaker 1: to do? Right, So you should keep on going. You
Speaker 1: have you can't stop. Um. As it relates to being
Speaker 1: a woman in a male dominated sector, UM. So I'm
Speaker 1: a set designer, A built sets for music videos, so
Speaker 1: to shoot TV shows stuff. UM, and I have been
Speaker 1: the only woman in situations many times. UM, but sometimes
Speaker 1: that's that's my advantage. UM. I can be the voice
Speaker 1: of reason in situations where there's a lot of male
Speaker 1: energy and people look to me for the to be
Speaker 1: the voice of reason. So you just have to figure
Speaker 1: out how to use you and your talents to your
Speaker 1: advantage and then figure out how to work the system.
Speaker 1: So what exactly do you want to do what you do?
Speaker 1: I would love I would love to get your contact
Speaker 1: and UM, I would love to bring you onto a
Speaker 1: set with me the next time I have something. Look
Speaker 1: at God, I love your Scott. I would like to
Speaker 1: just say this. And I know I'm not a woman.
Speaker 1: You know you can detect bad energy off the rip
Speaker 1: and I think there's a lot of the times we
Speaker 1: think we're supposed to put up with some bullshit to
Speaker 1: get something, and I promise you that is not the
Speaker 1: way to go. And also we tend to put our
Speaker 1: hopes and false prophets hands. We tend to put ourselves
Speaker 1: in people's way that really don't want to do nothing,
Speaker 1: but for themselves and I I've worked with everybody, and
Speaker 1: you can google me and look at the pictures in
Speaker 1: the history, but I want to really share that nine
Speaker 1: of these people I wasn't trying to help me. I
Speaker 1: had to find a way. You're gonna have to deal
Speaker 1: with something in life because just shift around every corner,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna have to be able to detect the
Speaker 1: bullshit quicker than then before you get on your clothes.
Speaker 1: And I'm stressing this to y'all because I know we
Speaker 1: have a lot of entrepreneurs in here, and it's hard
Speaker 1: to go through life knowing that there's so many evil
Speaker 1: people and so many people that don't want to help you.
Speaker 1: But you have to know that you are one of one,
Speaker 1: and that you are necessary and that you have a
Speaker 1: purpose on this earth. And you have to have that
Speaker 1: mindset when those doors get closed or those people aren't
Speaker 1: giving that help and hand up. And you have to
Speaker 1: be unapologetic about what you want. You have to And
Speaker 1: also we'll get to the next talk where is a
Speaker 1: difference between what you want what you need, but go
Speaker 1: after what you want because you seem like you're in
Speaker 1: your early twenties. I just want to add one out.
Speaker 1: I want to add one more thing to that. So
Speaker 1: you said interior and set design, so haven't done. I've
Speaker 1: done both of those, interior for Club Daydreams and set
Speaker 1: designed for Trot Music Museum and Dinner. For having done
Speaker 1: both of those, people have told me to choose many
Speaker 1: many times. They told me, like, choose one thing and
Speaker 1: just like put all of your energy into that, which
Speaker 1: is valid. But if you don't, honestly, if you don't
Speaker 1: know which one you want to do, continue doing both.
Speaker 1: It's gonna make you tired. But that's fine. You're young
Speaker 1: where it's time for you be tired. You can work, um,
Speaker 1: do both until you figure out which one weighs heavier,
Speaker 1: and then choose. Don't let people tell you that. Don't
Speaker 1: let people limit you, because that's something that I wish
Speaker 1: someone would have told me when I was younger. So
Speaker 1: that's very important. And if you work long enough, they'll
Speaker 1: pay you to be you. Trust me, We got right here, man.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, brother, I didn't mean to look y'all. I
Speaker 1: can't to the whole panel up there and expected my
Speaker 1: man right here, track star. I still remember those days
Speaker 1: and ken Burn, but but the retail model is about capital,
Speaker 1: brand awareness, and distribution. Right, So where do you see
Speaker 1: Nipsey Marathon store fitting into that and being the distribution
Speaker 1: for some of these streets where brands coming up, if
Speaker 1: he's putting them into our neighborhoods, and the way I
Speaker 1: view it is kind of like the strip club where
Speaker 1: where Future and the rest of the guys will bring
Speaker 1: them mixtapes and put it out there. So if you
Speaker 1: have these distribution outlets like a Nipsey store and others
Speaker 1: where local people can bring their stuff and market it
Speaker 1: into the streets, how do you see that working. It's
Speaker 1: just like wishure. It's just like we're talking about with
Speaker 1: these brick and mortar concepts. If you build a store
Speaker 1: and you want to have motiple, I mean, Amanre, I
Speaker 1: mean there's there's a lot of them, social status, there
Speaker 1: are a lot of them that are popping up. And
Speaker 1: actually what you're what you're saying as far as sadly enough,
Speaker 1: the marathon thing, I think that's a phase. I don't
Speaker 1: know how long that would last as a distribution hub,
Speaker 1: but I do applaud wish I applaud aman yeah, Motor
Speaker 1: four for so just that these are the hubs you're
Speaker 1: talking about, and they should be just like Renaldo was
Speaker 1: just mentioning the hubs for Atlanta streetwear culture, for streetwear
Speaker 1: culture in general, if you have an opportunity to present that,
Speaker 1: that's the distribution you're talking about, and I think it's happening.
Speaker 1: I think we should celebrate it more. I know my
Speaker 1: first trip is still to Wish for shoes. I go
Speaker 1: certain place forst certain things. I go to Quasi for
Speaker 1: certain So you know, I think that as they grow,
Speaker 1: the model should grow um and there will be more
Speaker 1: distribution opportunities for street where brands brands in general. And
Speaker 1: I could just say openly that I'm approachable to any
Speaker 1: brand um if it's amazing our presented, especially the team
Speaker 1: and of you know us that wishes we believe in
Speaker 1: it as well as because we're gonna support everything that
Speaker 1: comes out of Atlanta. That anybody could pull up on me,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. If you've got a major
Speaker 1: dope brand and stuffing to pull up on me, meet
Speaker 1: me outside in the back of the parking lot and
Speaker 1: wish we're gonna talk people to pull up on you.
Speaker 1: This is the A but it's an open door house
Speaker 1: that you know, and it's a family. I wish that
Speaker 1: we're open to anybody. If we feel like your businesses
Speaker 1: is in order, we going to support that because it
Speaker 1: is a business, like you said, and if it's not
Speaker 1: in order, I'm that's my responsibility to tell you this
Speaker 1: is what you need to do, so then I could
Speaker 1: put it in Wish so we could support you to
Speaker 1: the world. And so like any brand out here, I
Speaker 1: openly say, feel free to come pull up on me,
Speaker 1: we have a conversation, have your line sheets and everything
Speaker 1: like that, because that's what wishes the family We're going
Speaker 1: to do is support in Atlanta and take it to
Speaker 1: the world because we want everybody just to feel like
Speaker 1: if they come need a brand, that they could come
Speaker 1: to Wish and get it only in Atlanta because it
Speaker 1: is Atlanta, you know what I'm saying. So I mean,
Speaker 1: we support it, you know, but just don't don't be
Speaker 1: don't be scared, man, Just pull up. Man. If it's amazing,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna rock with it. We got one more question
Speaker 1: closing remarks to get over to this. Uh good evening.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you'll coming out. When I saw a T
Speaker 1: Street where it was gonna be here, and now I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm there. Definitely one thing like they're saying,
Speaker 1: is obviously a t L we have it. When I
Speaker 1: look at these brands, like on California, see how many
Speaker 1: people to each other. I know, I got people got
Speaker 1: vans on. I look at Brixton, I look at our
Speaker 1: v c A, I look at Levi's, I look at
Speaker 1: the California Republic. All those are California brands coming out
Speaker 1: of Orange County. And when I look at those brands,
Speaker 1: I say, what are they doing? They capture like they're
Speaker 1: capturing the surf culture, the scape culture. We have our
Speaker 1: culture all right, and it's the music. So like they said,
Speaker 1: we got a lot of dope brands in Atlanta, let's
Speaker 1: remain to stick together, just like we've done in the music.
Speaker 1: But as we stick together, let's make sure we've got
Speaker 1: our business type. One thing for me is, you know,
Speaker 1: when I'm looking at somebody like you know the Rocks,
Speaker 1: Rock Fellow, you know rock Nation, and what they're doing
Speaker 1: with planes, they're looking for ex strategies. They want to
Speaker 1: remain some ownership. But what I'm also looking at is
Speaker 1: we're here and I know there's a lot of entrepreneurs
Speaker 1: in the room. There's a lot of brands in the room.
Speaker 1: But one question I haven't heard tonight was obviously we
Speaker 1: get to a certain point and we're like, all right,
Speaker 1: I spent this much money, I need a little push.
Speaker 1: Where's the invest Grisette, where's the venture capitalists? Set I'm down,
Speaker 1: raise your hands. I mean you've got the money or
Speaker 1: you're looking for investor. I'm looking for the investor. And
Speaker 1: once again, I'm sorry. My name is Ann Mathis. I
Speaker 1: represent Atlanta Good Company, and if it's possible, can y'all
Speaker 1: invite some of the investors venture capitalists and stand up
Speaker 1: here before we leave to night? Thank you, my brother. No,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you all this though. And to his point,
Speaker 1: money ain't hard to find. It's just what you're looking forward.
Speaker 1: And I promise you, good brother. There's so many people
Speaker 1: with disposable income in Atlanta and that come through Atlanta.
Speaker 1: You know I would I would plot and playing a
Speaker 1: little different. I would look. You know. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know about Paul Judge, but he has an
Speaker 1: incubator on the tech side that he puts smack in
Speaker 1: the in the middle of the city and they have
Speaker 1: every month they give away a hundred thousand dollars to
Speaker 1: a business in tech. Figure out you're at part of
Speaker 1: your clothing game. Trigger the system, get the bag, give
Speaker 1: me temper. Do we have time for one work? One more? Can?
Speaker 1: Can Ronaldo get the Plague guy? You said you saw
Speaker 1: somebody Ronaldo? Yeah, I'm the Plaque guy. Hey, what's up
Speaker 1: you guys? Um Scott Freeze at Last Clothing six Feathers Clothing.
Speaker 1: I was born in Atlanta, shout out. I just want
Speaker 1: to say, Ronaldo and dude been following your curve forever
Speaker 1: and been going to Wish since they had the DJ
Speaker 1: booth up top motor forty four at Killers like an
Speaker 1: all homieh for for Kenny Burns a specialist anyway, man. Like.
Speaker 1: What I want to just say is how inspired I am.
Speaker 1: But what I'm seeing tonight, it's it's amazing to see
Speaker 1: this amount of people here engaging and seeing streetwear culture
Speaker 1: and just fashion culture in general in the city. I've
Speaker 1: been here so long, I've seen since it was super
Speaker 1: country and the ship wasn't popping, and even if you
Speaker 1: were white and you hung out what black people people
Speaker 1: would like think you were crazy. And so I'm saying
Speaker 1: you know, to see this and be part of this
Speaker 1: and watch what you guys are doing and see how
Speaker 1: you're pushing the culture and how long you've been doing
Speaker 1: it for. I've been messing with wishing since I was
Speaker 1: a little boy, you know what I mean. And now
Speaker 1: I've come up in this thing and we're doing some things,
Speaker 1: we're making some moves finally, and it's nice to be
Speaker 1: part of this. And so what I wanted to stand
Speaker 1: up and say to everybody in this room is you're
Speaker 1: all part of this and we have a real opportunity
Speaker 1: right now to really take Atlanta to the next level.
Speaker 1: And I see it happening and it's so inspiring. It
Speaker 1: opens my heart, it opens my mind, and I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm so honored to be part of this. And I
Speaker 1: wanted to tell the people on the stage. I've been
Speaker 1: watching her for a long time and it's so nice
Speaker 1: to see you on that stage. It's so nice to
Speaker 1: you to have this conversation. Yo, bro, I'm gonna send
Speaker 1: you a bunch of that. How about you. I got you,
Speaker 1: we got a studio down the road. I got y'all.
Speaker 1: But like straight up, like I have honor and what
Speaker 1: you've done and what you're doing, and it really has
Speaker 1: gone come a long way, and it's an honor also
Speaker 1: to be here at this growth in the city and
Speaker 1: everybody in this room who's part of this and pushing like,
Speaker 1: don't be discouraged. I can't tell you how many times
Speaker 1: I've been hungry and just kept going despite everybody said
Speaker 1: that's not gonna work. And now we're at a moment
Speaker 1: when it's gonna work. The music popped, the film popped,
Speaker 1: and that's our turn to pop. And so thank you
Speaker 1: for what you've done in the community. And you guys
Speaker 1: right here, I'm not editing that out. Hello, this is crazy, y'all.
Speaker 1: I kind of I pay attention to everything. You Remember
Speaker 1: that one autist I told you that inspired me coming
Speaker 1: from Miami. He's right here, to the right of me.
Speaker 1: I see him a gift, give respect times in the building, sir,
Speaker 1: listen inspired the whole fashion game for me, for your
Speaker 1: man out of the South. I tell you that already.
Speaker 1: Hold you put that image on the on the screen
Speaker 1: from the from Wish, from the back of Wish. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna give our clothes and remarks. Guys, um, I
Speaker 1: don't have too much to say but Atlanta, you know,
Speaker 1: thank you for inspiring me. Thank you for giving me
Speaker 1: the opportunity. I want to be half a wish. We
Speaker 1: opening the backup February. We got some amazing stuff. Guy's
Speaker 1: about the change and pushed the culture of Atlanta to
Speaker 1: the sky. Um, all I'm gonna say is the both
Speaker 1: ladies truly gonna be mad at me. But we're building
Speaker 1: the baddest motherfucking store in Atlanta. The ship is gonna
Speaker 1: be incredible. I promise you. I'm gonna go broke because
Speaker 1: all my money gonna go back in the store. But
Speaker 1: y'all have a home to come to. It's going to
Speaker 1: be experienced, man, and like feel free. Man out staff
Speaker 1: is amazing justin Malachi. You know what I'm saying, Ladies.
Speaker 1: You know we have an amazing photographer named Nikon p
Speaker 1: So guess what if y'all want to come model for us,
Speaker 1: we support it. If you wanna get your model on,
Speaker 1: you have a home. You know what I'm saying. Wishes
Speaker 1: there man, and we're supporting everything Atlanta. So just gonna
Speaker 1: pull up on them. You know, I sit outside with
Speaker 1: you in the back. You know, go to the Zesttos
Speaker 1: or something. But thank you. I just want to say
Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming in, spending your time
Speaker 1: to listen to us ramble for the past hour and
Speaker 1: a half. Thank you for being a part of this
Speaker 1: conversation with us and pushing this culture forward. Um. And
Speaker 1: from a personal personal note, thank you Atlanta for welcoming me.
Speaker 1: I've been here for thirteen years and I truly became
Speaker 1: a woman at this at this city and my business
Speaker 1: group here. Shout out to the Trap Music Museum. See
Speaker 1: y'all back there, I see y'all. Yes, indeed, thank you
Speaker 1: again Atlanta for coming out tonight. This is a big deal.
Speaker 1: And UM, I hope that we continue to actually have
Speaker 1: these type of panels so we can have some of
Speaker 1: input and also some feedback from you guys. And I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be in business for you guys for fifteen years.
Speaker 1: And I want to say thank you from the bottom
Speaker 1: of heart. Feel up forever. I love Atlanta. Or that
Speaker 1: was hard? Shout out? Are you into that player? So
Speaker 1: do y'all stand up with me on my last one?
Speaker 1: First of all, I want to give a shout out
Speaker 1: to these beautiful human beings for joining me on this
Speaker 1: on this panel. I do want to say this. It's
Speaker 1: okay to hold your superheroes accountable. It's okay to ask questions.
Speaker 1: It's okay to have discussion, because see, the only way
Speaker 1: we can fortify our community is if we have conversation.
Speaker 1: We cannot point fingers, we cannot blame. We can hold
Speaker 1: people accountable. Though, So please, if you're going to join
Speaker 1: us in the hallway, we'll say hi and take pictures
Speaker 1: and do all that. Aaron, are we gonna go straight over?
Speaker 1: Is everybody getting it free? Shout out to Aaron and
Speaker 1: everybody gets in for free. There's a discount at the shop.
Speaker 1: Everything is free, coffee, table books, Oh the shirt, no, God,
Speaker 1: bless you'll. We'll see you all upstairs. It's Ullio.