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'll be able to sell the quantities they're asking you to fill.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.