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 star than being good at what you do.

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.

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

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 had to do a lot of research on my own.