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

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

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 do something I believe in.

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

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'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.