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.