ONE SMALL SEED MAGAZINE Issue #27 Digital 02 | Page 52
CAN YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT THIS COLLECTION? HOW
DID YOU BUILD IT IN TERMS OF COLOURS, MATERIALS AND
SILHOUETTES?
The theme of the collection is Brooklyn and its iconic
imagery. You have the Bridge, but you also have certain
things that only the locals know. There are even street
vibes. The pattern piece has a
stack of money, standing for the dark side of the area;
the fire engines are opened with water so everyone can
cool down. The trees and the brown stones you see in
the Spike Lee movies. So it’s very inspired by the culture
of Brooklyn from my perspective as a New Yorker. It’s not
like this very skittery time that Biggie Smalls mentioned.
I mean some areas are still like that but a very popular
part of Brooklyn is just going in this creative wave. So
for the collection I was able to work with PUMA team
members on the illustrations and the colors that would
best fit in. With the Nets in town, black
and white is like the colour of Brooklyn now, so we
thought « why don’t we kind of stick to that? And it fits
very well: the collection is very strong.
AND ABOUT THE PASTEL PIECES?
The pastel stuff is more from the skyline illustration that
we did. We were thinking about the sun setting over
Brooklyn, the brown stones, the streets and the people.
So that’s how we came up with the skyline gradation.
We decided to implement that in a whole jacket, so
you have your top jacket and you also have the kicks
to match.
TELL US MORE ABOUT THE COLLECTION…
There is a men’s line and a wo men’s line, but I wanted
to design a collection I’d want to wear. I wear men’s
clothing; men’s tshirts, hoodies, gestures whatever. So
the men’s and women’s lines are similar if you look at
them. In terms of my fashion influences, just because
I grew up in NYC, streetwear has always been a huge
influence in who I am. The women’s pieces are more
fitted but the pattern is very unisex, very interchangeable.