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“Figures of Speech” · The Baller Alert Show

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the stage, Kenny Burns. What's happening, y'all? Feel good?
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  Speaker 1: Say yeah, I'm gonna take this hot ask coat off
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  Speaker 1: in two seconds. I just want you all to see
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  Speaker 1: the whole outfit. Uh. Capricorns. Is it still Capricorn season? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're lucky. I want to bring out three individuals that
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  Speaker 1: I think represent Atlanta great um and very well on
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  Speaker 1: the fashion side, just the lifestyle side in general. First,
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  Speaker 1: I would like to bring the beautiful Sky to the
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  Speaker 1: stage from Sets by Sky. She's my spirit animal and
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  Speaker 1: we did a little Coca Cola thing on accident. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't even play it and she got on dickies. Give
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  Speaker 1: it up a sky, y'all. Uh. Next, I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: bring to the stage my brother from another mother. He
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  Speaker 1: is the creative director at Wish Renaldo Nehemiah, that Co
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  Speaker 1: five boy at Co five and last but not at
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  Speaker 1: least Uh. He's a legend in Atlanta as far as
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  Speaker 1: I'm concerned. The owner of motor for for a quasi
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  Speaker 1: bill qataria Um. I don't know if you all know
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: everything about Virgil. If you know everything about Virgil, put
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  Speaker 1: your hands high. You don't let me help you. Virgil A.
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  Speaker 1: Blow is an American fashion designer, entrepreneur, artists, and DJ
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  Speaker 1: who has been the artistic director of Louis Vutan's men's
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  Speaker 1: wear collection since March. A Blow is also the chief
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  Speaker 1: executive officer of the Milan based label Off White, a
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  Speaker 1: fashion house he founded in Can you show them the original?
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  Speaker 1: That's an original? Peace, you're gonna stand up? Quasi turnaround? Okay? Great? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's his original. Oh uh, ladies and gentlemen. He is
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  Speaker 1: also a trained architect, I Blow who also worked in
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago street fashion scene, with one of his first
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  Speaker 1: offerings The Daily Making Dollars t Chicago's in the Building
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  Speaker 1: fashion gigs. Oh are you in the building? I got
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  Speaker 1: this information? I got a cheat sheet. Uh. He also
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  Speaker 1: had his first collab with leaders Um, a famous street
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  Speaker 1: where movement out of Chicago, designed the chain Tea with
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  Speaker 1: his then company v A A L l C. Did
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  Speaker 1: anyone know he had a company called v A A
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  Speaker 1: L l C. We're learning tonight. This is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a learning curve for all of us. Uh. And personally,
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  Speaker 1: what I'm most proud of is that he is the
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  Speaker 1: first American of African descent to be named artistic director
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  Speaker 1: at a French luxury fashion house. Give it up please.
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  Speaker 1: Time magazine also named him one of the most influential
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  Speaker 1: people in the world. So how many people remember the
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  Speaker 1: first time they all Virgil or heard of Virgil? Not many.
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  Speaker 1: I'm loving this. Um. There was an infamous photo taken
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  Speaker 1: by a photographer by the name of Tommy Ton and
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  Speaker 1: it was outside of the Calm de Garson show and
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  Speaker 1: what is obviously wildly circulated on the net, and it
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  Speaker 1: featured can we get that picture up there? On the screen?
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  Speaker 1: It featured Don c tesst Arnold, Chris Julian, Kanye West,
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  Speaker 1: Farnsworth Bentley, and then it featured an unknown Virgil a blow.
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  Speaker 1: Did anyone know that you ain't know ship? No one
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  Speaker 1: is scared of anyone in this room. For those who
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  Speaker 1: didn't know, now you know that started? Uh that's actually
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  Speaker 1: those yeezis or the Louis Vuitton yeasys that everybody was
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  Speaker 1: going crazy over when he did his Louis Vuitton offering,
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  Speaker 1: his first Loui Baton offering. So we're gonna start the
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  Speaker 1: first question, and I want to open this up to
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  Speaker 1: our amazing panel. Um, what do you think Virgil's contribution
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  Speaker 1: has meant to Atlanta fast and culture. Um Virgil has
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  Speaker 1: made an amazing impact as far as like fashion and
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  Speaker 1: art and also has given the opportunity for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people to actually step outside of box to actually
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  Speaker 1: make a difference in fashion and fashion world because you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're living in the days where people wearing more casual
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  Speaker 1: leisure were as supposed to wearing a suit, so now
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  Speaker 1: everything's more so streetwear were although near Maya. The influence
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  Speaker 1: of everything that he has done for me as a
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  Speaker 1: young black male, you know from the South, it just
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  Speaker 1: is a young Black African American male period too strive
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  Speaker 1: to do what we was not supposed to be to do.
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  Speaker 1: Um giving me the inspiration to being a young black
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  Speaker 1: creative director in a city that's powerful and being powered out,
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  Speaker 1: you know by African Americans. It gives me the strength
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  Speaker 1: every day to seeing the iconic things that he's doing
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  Speaker 1: for me to say I want to do the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: to take Atlanta to the world is well and speakful
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta to the world as well, and everything that I do,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being a creator direct their wish. So by
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  Speaker 1: him being that stap on, that trophy that I can
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  Speaker 1: look at every day and study. You know, it's my
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  Speaker 1: aspiration to you know, do that. Yeah, I think it
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  Speaker 1: allows us to be able to think outside the box.
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  Speaker 1: We see someone who's doing something like that that looks
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  Speaker 1: like us, and now it allows us to think that
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  Speaker 1: it's tangible for us. Men and women are like black
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  Speaker 1: and brown. It's very important. Absolutely, I think. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: think he blew up because he made bigger clothes, bigger.
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  Speaker 1: I think there was a time when, no bullshit, I
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  Speaker 1: think there was a time where where designer clothes were
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  Speaker 1: not made for black men. I think that there was
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  Speaker 1: a time, you know, even when I started Ryan Kenney,
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  Speaker 1: the problem we were having and we were the second
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  Speaker 1: black designers ever in sacks with the Avenue by the way,
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  Speaker 1: with Ryan Kenney, but go hello, what's Aaron? We need
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  Speaker 1: shots a Yama. Um. But I think he kind of
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  Speaker 1: he kind of hit the mark. I mean he he
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  Speaker 1: was making things that could fit athletes, that could fit
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  Speaker 1: you know, oversized people. And I think that you know
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  Speaker 1: when you saw I mean, black men have shoulders, we
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  Speaker 1: have butts, we have guts, we you know abo And
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  Speaker 1: I think he literally coined it and hit a home
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  Speaker 1: run with it, because if you think of his first offering,
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  Speaker 1: which was pyrex. You know it was a whole you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was a whole thing, like you know they were.
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  Speaker 1: He took the flannels from Ralph Lauren he printed on
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  Speaker 1: the back of them. I think, Zoe, you told me
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  Speaker 1: there was a flash cell at Polo when that happened.
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  Speaker 1: So where are you at flashal geek, Zoe? This is
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  Speaker 1: my cheek she Zoe, Stand up zo, stand up Zozo.
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  Speaker 1: He has geek out of Chicago. So the rumor has
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  Speaker 1: it that he there was a flash sell Ralph right,
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  Speaker 1: and he brought all the sizes and the painted pirates
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  Speaker 1: on the back, right, okay, and they had huge sizes. Okay, cool.
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  Speaker 1: I just I don't want to I want to have
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  Speaker 1: all facts, and we're gonna get to the facts. I
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  Speaker 1: want facts from coming in the audience with the microphone,
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  Speaker 1: especially to the white people. Okay. Question number two, how
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  Speaker 1: do each of you characterize Atlanta Street where? Now? I
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  Speaker 1: wanna I don't want to set you up with this
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  Speaker 1: question because you're from l A. Originally, Dickies is an
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  Speaker 1: l A Atlanta thing, too, right, we share that, right, um,
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  Speaker 1: But how do you characterize Atlanta Street where? Because Dickies
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  Speaker 1: is totally Atlanta Street, where I just wore Dicky Suit
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  Speaker 1: the cassette two weeks ago. So honestly, I think Dicky's
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  Speaker 1: is a as a it's a special special case because
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  Speaker 1: it's universal. This is this is like the poor man's uniform.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it started as. So it's not just an
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  Speaker 1: l A thing. It's not a Southern thing. It's a
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  Speaker 1: US thing. Um, everyone worthies when they when they went
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  Speaker 1: to work. So I don't think. I don't think everyone
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  Speaker 1: had the tailor to fit before Atlanta. I mean this
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  Speaker 1: is an evolved fashion has the tailors. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: this is okay. But everyone can can relate to this
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  Speaker 1: in one way or another. Either someone's grandfather wore this
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  Speaker 1: to work or someone's panel speaker war to a panel. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that's sky alright, alright, Um, it's it's relatable. But it's
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  Speaker 1: also it's practical, and that's why I like it. That's
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  Speaker 1: also like why I like Dickies in general or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that's a gumpsuit because I can wear these to work.
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  Speaker 1: I can wear these in a set and then I
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  Speaker 1: can take my shoes off, put heels on, and go
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  Speaker 1: to dinner if I want to. Um. So it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of universal and love your style. Ronaldo, creative director of Wish.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Atlanta, you know, it fluished me through my
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  Speaker 1: whole life. I mean growing up in Miami, Florida. I
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  Speaker 1: mean my favorite group, you know, Joan Bloods. I mean
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: I tell everybody all the time, the Flyers. The Flyers
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  Speaker 1: guy that I used to look out too in Miami
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  Speaker 1: when I was growing up was Big gift Um. He
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  Speaker 1: was the Flyers of them all. I mean he he
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  Speaker 1: was charismatic. He just like yo, listen, I got the attitude.
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  Speaker 1: I'm riding my box Chevy and I'm gonna, you know,
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  Speaker 1: still be me. And you know, growing up at Miami,
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  Speaker 1: that's what we wrote this Donks and box Chevys. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I was like then in college, I go to walm
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  Speaker 1: up by my Dickies. Even though there was a size
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  Speaker 1: I was like a size eight back then, I was
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  Speaker 1: wearing a size thirty four. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So about that life right, it still is in a
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  Speaker 1: more you know, curated way. But Atlanta always like, like
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  Speaker 1: you know, Andre three thousand said, the South has something
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  Speaker 1: to say, and every time you see somebody from Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: it's an air about them all of my friends that
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  Speaker 1: are genuine from Atlanta that I meet, that I love
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  Speaker 1: and respect. This is confidence of like yo, listen, I'm
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  Speaker 1: from Atlanta from one six. You take old national role,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Metropolitan Stewart Avenue. This is what you're gonna get, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: addresses um these in these streets though. Look look you
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  Speaker 1: know Ronaldo Style, some of your favorite rappers, um Quasi
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  Speaker 1: Before you answer, I just want to I want to
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  Speaker 1: give the people a little bit. Quasi started uh selling
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  Speaker 1: me close at Ralph Lauren and he took that knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of his customer base opened the store about the name
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  Speaker 1: of motor for for which he has today. And the
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  Speaker 1: genius about this man is that, you know, when all
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  Speaker 1: these fashion houses from Europe we're making all these things
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  Speaker 1: that didn't fit high armpits, low waist jeans, he went
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  Speaker 1: out into the world and found the same silhouettes and cuts,
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  Speaker 1: but things that fit us. And I just want to
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  Speaker 1: commend you for that because it's unheard of for an
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  Speaker 1: independent owner to being business over fifteen years selling fashion. Well,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Kenny. Um. I want to also elaborate that
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  Speaker 1: the fact that Atlanta, when I first moved here in
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  Speaker 1: right after the Olympics was incredibly a city where it's
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  Speaker 1: growing fast. And I was living downtown Atlanta and loft
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  Speaker 1: and I noticed the style is more so the classic
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  Speaker 1: Cortez Nikes. It was like the dope boy fresh look
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  Speaker 1: with baggy levies an oversized white T shirt. So we've
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  Speaker 1: graduated from that to the point where we have Virgil
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  Speaker 1: that's now making an amazing collaboration with like Nike and
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  Speaker 1: making of the cooler version of uh, what fashion is?
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  Speaker 1: You know, so our style and motor fhul Force more
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  Speaker 1: so international where we actually reach out to the global
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  Speaker 1: market where if it's a Japanese style, if it's oversized, look,
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  Speaker 1: you can still have a cool effect where you're actually
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  Speaker 1: expressing yourself without thinking twice, you know, kind of like
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  Speaker 1: growing out of bed and just point out a cool outfit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I want you to elaborate a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: because I think that you know, as I mean, being
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  Speaker 1: in business over two decades, basically a happy new decade
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  Speaker 1: to everyone. By the way, you know, this is not
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  Speaker 1: a new year, this is a new decade child. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But but seeing Atlanta go from you know, because when
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  Speaker 1: we moved here, you know, it was really you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Southern music was starting to ascend. You had the
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  Speaker 1: face records, you had social death, rowdy records, you had
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  Speaker 1: all these things starting when you when you came, or
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  Speaker 1: starting to actually peak when you came. But um, I
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  Speaker 1: just want to talk about how you could talk through
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  Speaker 1: the history and the evolution of the fashion here. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: um spending time Atlanta's fashion. When I worked at Lenox
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  Speaker 1: Mall actual Ralph Laurence, my first retail job, everyone was
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  Speaker 1: at Lord and Taylor. So UM at the time, I
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  Speaker 1: think for the most part, I was in college at
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  Speaker 1: Clark and I couldn't sleep see you. So Clark was
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  Speaker 1: very fashionable, and coming from New York to Atlanta wasn't
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  Speaker 1: was an amazing Um just changed in my life just
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  Speaker 1: for the fact that I went to HBC School, but um,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that I met some of the middles amazing
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  Speaker 1: people there and to this day they all my friends. UM.
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  Speaker 1: I remember just you know, being in New York or
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  Speaker 1: wearing a lot of outdoor gear like Northface, and I've
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  Speaker 1: just kind of seen fashion Atlanta just changed to the
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  Speaker 1: point where we're more we're actually wearing more high fashion brands.
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  Speaker 1: So it's incredible, I think for me with with Atlanta fashion.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's grown into the metropolis that it is.
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  Speaker 1: I think because of all the beautiful people that moved
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  Speaker 1: here to you to go to school, um, to pursue
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  Speaker 1: a loved one too, whatever you came last year in
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  Speaker 1: high school. I think Atlanta has built up of so
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  Speaker 1: many different cities, and those cities have poured into Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: and now has you know, attached themselves to not only fashion,
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  Speaker 1: but music and everything else that has to do with lifestyle.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I remember coming here and it was
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  Speaker 1: country like that. That's how people referred to Atlanta. They
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  Speaker 1: referred to everything Atlanta country, their style, their music there, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And I had a certain affinity because of the tempo
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  Speaker 1: of the music. And I would go off the reservation
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  Speaker 1: because when I first came to school, Atlanta didn't funk
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  Speaker 1: with the colleges. It was like, you go to college,
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  Speaker 1: don't come over here. But because we were in the
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  Speaker 1: street a little bit, we were allowed to go play.
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  Speaker 1: And I think when I first went to Cascade, when
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  Speaker 1: I would go out to Old National Highway to make
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  Speaker 1: my runs like I would just I was immersed into
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  Speaker 1: the culture and and to be honest with you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta unlike any other city in the world, that was
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  Speaker 1: its own thing. And then as the people started coming
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  Speaker 1: in and making their families here and growing. Because I've
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  Speaker 1: been here almost three decades and to see where it's
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  Speaker 1: at now. It's a true metropolitan city. It's a true
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  Speaker 1: thoughtful city, and it's offering. We're not only leading the music,
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  Speaker 1: We're not only leading in tech on a lot of levels.
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  Speaker 1: And with Paul Is bringing to the city, we're not
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  Speaker 1: only you know, we I mean, I would like to
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  Speaker 1: really dissect on who spends what I would believe Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: would be in the top ten in the world. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I just I like and I want to
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  Speaker 1: challenge everyone here, like, you know, how many people are
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  Speaker 1: residents here, live here? And how many of you are
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  Speaker 1: not from here? Like this is your home? Wherever you're
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  Speaker 1: from is cool? Everybody on on this stage was not
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  Speaker 1: born in Atlanta? How many people aren't born in Atlanta?
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  Speaker 1: I want to see that, Grady baby, what Georgia? Okay, well,
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: so there's another hospital. Sounds graty. We just learned, we
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  Speaker 1: just learned important. Where's that at? Okay? Well, the fact
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  Speaker 1: that it was another hospital makes me feel whold. I
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  Speaker 1: just because all you hear is grady. But I just
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  Speaker 1: want to say this is our home and keep repping
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  Speaker 1: it the way we do. Um. I'm gonna get to
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  Speaker 1: the next question. How do you think having this exhibition?
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  Speaker 1: How many people have seen that exhibition upstairs? Okay, well
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  Speaker 1: those who haven't, after this you'll be able to see it.
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  Speaker 1: But how do you think having this exhibition effects or
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  Speaker 1: inspires the creative culture or trends here? Um? A whole lot,
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  Speaker 1: because if you look at the history of this Virgil
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  Speaker 1: Pick there is ever to be in Chicago first service
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  Speaker 1: in his hometown, then anybody to Atlanta. He could have
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  Speaker 1: chose any city else in the country or the world
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  Speaker 1: to bring a second, and for him to bring his
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  Speaker 1: second that just shows the impact that we have that
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  Speaker 1: he the world is watching and people don't even realize it.
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  Speaker 1: You think about all the dope brands out of Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: like Cease and Desist, Raunchy, All Friends, Welcome by the
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  Speaker 1: Original Fani, you know, all of these brands. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta think about these brands that actually live in
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta that is moving throughout the world, that is influencing
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  Speaker 1: Because a lot of our rappers are wearing them. And
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  Speaker 1: if anybody don't think that these guys like Virgin Damn
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  Speaker 1: are not paying attention to what these young designers are
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  Speaker 1: doing in Atlanta, you would be crazy. I I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: you saying that, I really do, because I think that
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  Speaker 1: he might not get the credit for that, and that
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  Speaker 1: is a very I mean, I'm sure he could have
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  Speaker 1: went to New York, or he could have went anywhere,
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  Speaker 1: and he brought it to Atlanta. Do you guys have
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  Speaker 1: any more energy with that? Sure? Sure? Sure? Um. One
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  Speaker 1: thing I appreciate about what Virgil has done is to
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  Speaker 1: actually express himself with like um, the political aspect of
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  Speaker 1: life through his art and also the fact that fashion
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  Speaker 1: is at his best right now. Ever, where I would
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  Speaker 1: be in a thousand years because working at Rop Floren
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  Speaker 1: for me was soon talk kind of thing on a
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  Speaker 1: daily basis, but I started off at Polar Sport where
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: it was more casual. Um. I was actually shopping this
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  Speaker 1: past holiday at Louis Batton and I walked into the
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: leaving store and I just noticed a scarf that was
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  Speaker 1: an American flag made out of fur with a Ghanaian flag,
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  Speaker 1: and I was amazed by it because it was like
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  Speaker 1: a piece of art. I was like, Wow, this kid
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  Speaker 1: is amazing where he's actually expressing his native roots. Me
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  Speaker 1: being West African native, I was touched by it because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as far as like the culture is concerned
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  Speaker 1: in Atlanta right now, we're like the most powerful state
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  Speaker 1: of emergency. Man, It's it's crazy. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: good things happened in the city. We have the typ
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  Speaker 1: fairy thing popping, we have music, we have fashion, and
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  Speaker 1: you have people all walks of life. So hey, let's
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  Speaker 1: get it guys. Sure. So I was just gonna say,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's interesting. I think we all should need
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: to consider the contents of the exhibit, like the pieces
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: that he chose to display. I don't want to spoil
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: it for those have not seen, but there's a whole
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: bunch of rugs up there, y'all. It's um. It's quite vast,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: like he had covered a lot of bases um with
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: this exhibit. And the fact that to your point, he
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: decided that he felt Atlanta could appreciate all of the
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: different aspects of the exhibit is really important. Considering the
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: fact that what you said earlier, Atlanta used to be
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: a place that with a joke to people. Um so
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I think I think the city is finally is the
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: post and I think it's important and people are paying
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: attention to it. She ain't. La Poe used to try
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: to hate on Atlanta all the time on the side
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: side conversations. Um this, this next question is gonna resonate
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: heavy in here. And I'll be the first to say,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I am one that really tries to find the value
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: in Virgil and not that you know. Like I said,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I'm most proud that he is the first American of
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: African descent ascent, I mean decent to lead a men's
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: fashion house in you know, French fashion house. But I mean,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, I said it earlier. We wanna take chapter.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: He is the first American of African descent to be
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: named artistic director at a French luxury fashion house. Um,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: but I you know, I had a bad experience. You know,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I'm a host. I host all over the world, and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: he ran in the booth when he was gonna DJ
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: after Q tipping Oye one time, and he was just
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: so arrogant. So every since then, I've been trying to
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: hate on him, but I can't. I can't. I try.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I'm like skining. I'm a scorpio. I tried, and but
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I can't because I think his offering is too special.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: But I want to read this and then after we
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: give you our opinions, I want to know your opinion
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: because I'm gonna fry him a little bit. Virgil recently
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: made these comments. Uh, on days Virgils say wow, I
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: would definitely say it's gonna die. He's referring to street
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: where like it's time will be up in my mind.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: How many more T shirts can we own? How many
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: more hoodies? How many sneakers? I think like we're gonna
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: hit this like really awesome state of expressed. This is
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: his words, expressing your knowledge and personal style with vintage.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: There are so many clothes that are cool that are
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: inventage shops, Like people don't already shop inventage shops, and
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: it's just about wearing them. I think that fashion is
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: gonna go away from buying a box fresh something. It'll
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: be like, hey, I'm gonna go into my archive. Scott,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I know you're a vintage shopper. Now this is true,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: not in ten years. Talk to your people. Well, first
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: of all, I have I kind of have like two
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: different opinions on I'm gonna pay play Devil's advocate on
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: my own opinion politically correct, I'll be the asshole. I
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I'm a little bit bit of an asshole in this
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: situation too. Okay. I was a little a little disrespected
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: by this because, first of all, you have the most
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: popular streetwear clothing brand and you are saying that it's
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: gonna die. So I'm just trying to figure out, are
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: you just trying to push the culture for a second
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: and then pull out, or like, where are we going
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: with this? Where are we going? One side, it's just
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: one side. The other side, we're very excited to hear um.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: The other side. I have been shopping in thrift store
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: since I was in a stroller with my grandmother. UM.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: There's no piece, no outfit that I go out and
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: that does not have a vintage something a part of it.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: This UM. So I am personally excited that he feels
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: like there is um a new hope for the vintage world,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: but it hasn't gone anywhere. There is an entire subculture
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: of people that specifically go to thrift stores to find
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: personal pieces to accident outfits. So they'll go to Niemans
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: and find an outfit, and then they'll go to a
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: thrift store and find a brooch as an accent piece.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: So it's not we're still doing that. Um. But I
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: guess I'm okay with him shutting some lights, Renaldo, for
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: him to be boldly, to feel like you're bigger than
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: what made you, it's kind of weird. Um. So that
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: and for me personally, streetwear would never die because I
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: was raised in the streets, and so streets is a
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: guy that is fresh cut. Your cameras on my my
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: O g s and the guys that I looked too,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: you know, in Miami, we wore Dickie fits and Wallabies
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and Chucks and and Clark's and my uncle's and they
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: told me, don't you ever get dirty. And I just
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: give you money because all the girls gonna love as
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: long as you look good and you smell good. And
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I live by that model. Is that true? So you
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: want to thug? I know you. But I see all
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: of this to say, a street where it's just not
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: one genre is like music. You cannot take away something
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: that impact the world. And at the end of the day,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Atlanta is a big representation of streetwear. Street where is
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: just not Streetwears high ended me. Also, you get what
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, the evolution that we're starting, And I'm gonna
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: just say this to be honest at Wish, it's a
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: new definition of what street wear is gonna be. We're
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: gonna raise that standard. So when he says that Streetwears
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: did something, say, well, listen, when you come to rich
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you're gonna pay homage to Atlanta, hold on to say
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: street where it is dead. You gotta be from the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: motherfucker streets. You cannot say I had to. I'm sorry.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: As long as there is it, as long as there's
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: a middle class and a local class, there's always gonna
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: be street This is my issue. I'm sorry. Cars, you
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: get some burnings up, that's fine. You know, we talk
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: about culture vultures and we talk about them being white,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: but we have our own culture voltures. How do you
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: create a brand called Pires? I got it on? Actually,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: how do you how do you create a brand called Pyres?
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: And you can't tell me off white? Don't mean you
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: hear me? And I'm just confused. How when you're ready
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: to move on in the sin you leave a whole
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: culture behind. I'm sorry, you going? I got something else
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: say after your qual well, I come from a different
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: era where when you actually bought fashion, it was almost
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: like buying a piece of art. So at this point,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: right now, three quals with you. You know, fashion is
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: at the point where when you're buying a hoodie, it's
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: almost like you're paying twelve hundred dollars for a hoodie,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you see it on
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: self like three dollars. You realize that it's it's oversaturated,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: there's no more value to it, and everybody's gonna have it.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: So that's the game right there, right where mass production
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: takes place. And then he he mentions that street was
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: that because he's made his money. Now he's moving on
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: to other things. But can I say one more thing
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: to hold on? Come on, like skin brother, let me
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: just say one more And then another issue that I had.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: You're not from Chicago? Hold on fashion? Is he from Chicago?
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Is he? That's what I wanted to say that man
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: out there, wait is the leg hold on, Zoe? Is
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: he from Chicago? Because you know I'm from DC, but
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: people from Alexander, Virginia say they're from DC, Oxy Hill, Maryland.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Is he from Chicago zough so so. But I'm gonna
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: tell you a quick story though. In Vegas almost fifteen
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: years ago, I was in Vegas with my golfer, the
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: John Monopoly and him and I saw this fashion geek
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: ron Stone hoodie going up this escalator. I chased him
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: all the way down. It was like, you got to
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: give me one of these. I never got it, because
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: this is why he was ahead of his time. He
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: was doing a rhymestone with the geek that Kanye Ward
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: and everybody went crazy over. I sent him a text
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: a couple of months ago, maybe a year ago. I said, brother, listen,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: you have to bring the geetback with the ron Stone hoodies.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: All right, Gee, I got you. Next month later, Chinatown
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Market came out with the same hoodie with the same colors,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: with the Roon Stone. When I tell you, I called
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: him and I was livid because he is the street
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: where God to me, thank you for flying down here
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: to give it up for Alonzo jact Right. You know,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I had to have somebody from Chicago on here if
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I was gonna talk ship, and then let me talk
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: about ship. So let's go back to him saying that
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Vintage will be the experience in ten years. It's because
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: he's making all that big boxing ship that's going out
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: of style, and this is we're self serving. Sue for heroes.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Get on my motherfucking nerves. You gotta always remember you
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: from the Kanye School of University. Jear mean. But all
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I'm saying to y'all is as leaders in your prospective fields,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: as responsible humans, we have to deliver messages that are
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: not self service. This is a selfless life, or it
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: should be. And I think he said that my personal opinion.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know if any of the Fantastic Four Greek,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: but he said that because all the ship he making
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: that is gonna be in the thrust though, say nobody
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: can want that ship and ten years. That's my personal opinion. Now,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I'm amazed that he is the first American of African descent.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: What I say earlier, I want to say that again
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: because I'm very proud of that, and that takes us
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: further and further in our plight to get what we
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: came for. I am saying, though, it is irresponsible for
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: you to take streetwear culture, launch your career and then
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: say nah, it's gonna be done. It's never gonna be done.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: As long as poor people have vision and want to create,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the streets will matter. And there's always going to be
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: a disparity in class. You know this. So I just
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: want us to be focused and hold people responsible but
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: also giving their credit because again I am proud that
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: he is the first American of African Dissett descent to
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: be in the Fashion House. Now what I wanna do
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: is I'm gonna pick a couple of people. Now, it's
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: some free game going on in here. So if you
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: have questions I've been getting d m s, please feel
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: free to ask them. But if you have a question
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: and or comment, I just like you to raise your hand.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna send Aaron to you and you can get
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: your things off. You got somebody already first and foremost,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: thank you all for coming. My name is Joshua Burrell
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: and my Moorhouse College Junior Cinema, Television and Emergent Media
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Studies Major and Generalism minor from Maryland, Paris in Southeast
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Family already right front boat black bas lifestyle. But um,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: all right, come closer to the stage. I want to
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: see your face on stage. Oh, standing standing right there?
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go, all right, so, um, considering all
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: things considered, UM, how do you all think street street
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: fashion would develop away from fast fashion or high fashion
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and take more of a local or regional urban influence.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: For example, a lot of my friends make clothes, and
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking that, you know, we're gonna go from less
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: of Glucci and Proud and things like that too. Like, uh,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: my friend makes some nice clothes, I want to buy
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: that off him. And I'm gonna represent myself through the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: people around me what they make, you know. So what well,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I think when you have UM the great world and
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the great family over there, I wish UM were more
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: in supporting the community in Atlanta, you know what I'm saying.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: And my thing was, as I became a creative director,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I wanted to take Atlanta to the world and to
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: showcase young talented designers that deserve that right and to
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: make them as high fashion respected as Gucci, Louis and
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: all these other respected brands. And it all just come
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: to the point that the community has to support y'all.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: If I see a young designer and yourself is fired
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: by it, I have them presented to the gods that
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: maybe a wish to say, listen, I believe in this brand,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: that this brand deserves to be represented in our story.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: That the world looks at as an establishment of Wish
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: because once the young designer gets into that store, that
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: changes your life. So then when Barney's or somebody come
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: talk to you, now you have the legs and that
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: this city and this foundation of Wish supported us. So
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the thing is that the community, we just have to
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: get behind the young designers and push y'all just as
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: well if we're gonna push anything else that is major. Yeah,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Sky and I had the opportunity to come to Clark
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Atlanta University UM during the Revolt Music Conference and there
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: was a festival of sorts really, I mean market Thursdays. See,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: she's not far removed from college twenty seven years off,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: that motherfucker. But what you need to think about, young blood,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: you need to think about how can you put your
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: clothes or your friends clothes on someone's back. I think
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of times, especially in the city like Atlanta,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: people are like, how can I get on what? They
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: walk through Lenox every day, They walk through phips every
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: day to buy something. Run up on them. You see
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: them little kids out there trying to sell water and
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: canny and everything else. Gon't sell your clothes, and I would.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I would encourage your friends even on a market Thursday situation.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: You know, I remember when I was at the end
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: of au See, the formally defunct Morris Brown. Anybody okay, great,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: but I would encourage the au See to figure out
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: some type of unity or union rather where you can
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: put those collectors together and have an offering like a
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: market Thursday. I think it's a beautiful way. You're good,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: thank you for your course, and we got one more
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: course and coming. Okay, let's go. Hi. I'm Ada. I
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: am the co founder of a brand called floor Plan,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: and we do thematic retail experiences that change on a
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: yearly basis. And I wanted to know how um as,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Macy's and other big box retailers are closing. How can
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: new emerging retailers um help streetwear brands, beauty brands, um
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: these emerging entrepreneurs thrive. Well, I have to So what
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: is that to ask you a question? Right now? In
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: our new era this social media. So social media is
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: one of the things where you can actually, you know,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: kind of promote your business. And for the most part,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: have you ever worked at a retail job at all
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: pop pop hotels, pop up shop, popp shops. Okay, so um,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: you know with me, my personal experience started off with
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: my first job. Like I said earlier, it was Lord
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: and Taylored, and then I moved on to J Crew
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: and after J Crew was pulled Sport and once I
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: stted into the rough Lauren world, it was amazing the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: fact that this man just created his lifestyle and I
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: crossed over the men's suits. So um, I learned so much.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: It was like to go into like a school of fashion,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: you know. And as you know, fashion changes, what goes
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: around comes around. So um. For this particular question, I
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: would say to actually keeps driving and don't give up
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and keep promoing your brand. And um, also be specific
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: about your target market, you know, because a lot of
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: times I've noticed in Atlanta people kind of think, oh,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: a sweatshirt and a T shirt, it's a cloth line.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: No it's not. It's a whole collection and there has
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: to be a certain lifestyle behind it. Also, you know,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: if you look at um, well, people don't know. Andre
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: three thousand had a cold aline called Benjamin Bigby, and
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Benjamin Biggsby actually launched at Barney's and also launched it
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: um Nemon Marcus, and most people really weren't aware of
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: it at the time. Um, they actually pulled it because
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: it was the cells are pretty low and it was
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: kind of like a spinoff of Ralph Lauren. It was
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: the Quesrian lifestyle where he sold you to for jacket,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the rugby shirts and so on. Um. So my thing
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: is most boutiques and vendors wanted to actually see a lifestyle,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: you know, if it's like a question lifestyle, or if
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: it's like a you know, if I don't have a
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: cycling or something like that, if it's just a hoodie
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: and a saying it's kind of like black you know. Um.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: But one thing again, the fact that this is a
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Virgil show and we're honoring him. There's a lot of
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: cool things that you well, to be honest with you, minimentistically,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: he's impeccable and he's done so me political things in
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: fashion that if you're able to see it, you don't
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: understand it. So it has to be a message behind
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: your fashion sense, you know, because you gotta you can't
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: think for yourself. Sometimes you gotta start slowly and gradually.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Once people get ahold of your brand, then you can
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: express yourself freely. UM. One thing before the gentleman screamed
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: out breaking mortar, I personally think that you don't need
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: department stores. I think if you are in your perspective
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: markets and you want to have a foundation by property
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: and sell your stuff on your property, I think that
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: you know, we to Quasis Point. We have an opportunity
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: with social media that is unheard of, so there's an
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: online component. But I think people want to see you.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I think they want to see your brand. I think
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: they want to have an experience. And like the gentleman said,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know who said it, but I think that
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: it should be some ownership in the properties. A lot
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: of this rent and I mean you've been renting, you
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: know for fourteen years years and yeah, but there's nothing
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: like owning your property and paying it off and having
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: your stuff for self. UM. Agree. I also want to
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: let you guys know that you guys are doing an
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: amazing job and like, you guys are absolutely amazing. You
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: guys just opened and you guys are making waves. So
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: congratulations to you guys on that. Um, but also continue
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: creating this world around the brand. The brand is new
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: right now. But that doesn't mean that you can't create
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: this like this world around it. So figure out exactly
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: who who you're targeting and then push that create these
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: pop ups in there, and then also move your spaces.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Is is like concrete for now. But also you said
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: your background is in pop up shops. Do pop up
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: shops in Atlanta that push your business back to your
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: brick and mortar. That's fine. The city is big and
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: it's also small, but people talk. So make sure you
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: create this world and then also bring the business back.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: And I agree with the pop ups. I agree with
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the problem thing that actually works till as visuals. You know,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: it's a lifestyle again, even when you're working at the
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: workshop or getting ready to set up your shops, doing
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: a short from a short film to kind of show
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the world what you're working on and people are really
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: loving the nada's or even go live online. You know,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: just don't buy your don't buy your likes and their followers.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: We got some more dope people, dope questions. My name
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: is Anita Brian. I'm from d C, havingue okay, real
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: d C. Yeah, what I wanted to ask you is
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: n d C. There are designers that are trying to
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: amp up the manufacturing and infrastructure. I'm wondering what you
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: guys are doing to improve manufacturing of your products, to
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: create jobs and give you all longevity. Yes, well, first
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: and foremost, I was inspired from Washington, d C. To
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: do fashion in general. When I was growing up. Do
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: y'all remember EU the butt to younger? So there was
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: something they're not too young. Everybody know the butt, but
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: there was a video that you might not remember, and
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: they had this this this store called the Madness Shop.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: And the Madness Shop inspired me beyond belief because it
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: was the neighborhood shop and they would always make clothes
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: to match back to your sneakers. I see, you know
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: remnants of that in Chicago with fashion geeks O. Not
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: that he got it from d C, but just the
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: neighborhood shop is always respected um and value because you know,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: they grew up with the person, They know the person,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: they know the authenticity behind the brand, as far as
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: as far as fortifying opportunities and you know, manufacturing for
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: smaller companies. I think like my my son is for
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: fifteen years old. He has a clothing I called b RNs.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: His mom and I to your point of pop ups.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Went to our friend on our first collection and he
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: gave us his store free or charge. We made forty
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: two tho allars two days. He didn't charge me. But
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I think those are the things that help business. We
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: are a community, we are a village. It takes a village.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: If I know manufacturers, printers, graphic designers, I'm totally willing
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: to share um. And I think a lot of time
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: as creatives, y'all, we don't want to share because we
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: think that someone's gonna steal our swag where no one
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: can do you like you. That's one and then too,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: if you're a real creative, a new idea comes up
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the in the middleseconds. So don't
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: be afraid to lend um your um, manufacturers, your distributors,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: your creative graphic designers, people that you know can help
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: someone out because you know, just like the question back
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: to department stores, that's that's that those are dinosaurs. People
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: aren't even consuming in stories like they used to. So
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: it's gonna take new creative ways and obviously us helping
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: each other to go forward. Anybody else, I gotta hand
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: the MinC ring Okay, there we go. I would like
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: to ask some clarity to a lot of the Atlanta questions.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I'm from Atlanta to the west man, Um, yeah, Um.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: We were not a joke, Sky Yeah. And we were
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: not country Kenny. We considered southern. This is just a
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: southern area. Hey, don't you ever despect your brother, your
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: big brother in public? You you not being from You're
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: not being from like being from out of that. I
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: was providing clarity. Yes, So as streetwear designers, I totally
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: understand what Bertha was saying because urban berth streetwear, and
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: if you remember, urban doesn't exist anymore. So a hat
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: streetwear has to birth something new, it has to evolve.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: That's what fashion does. And because he's in that position,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: he's not leaving us my arm. He's telling us that
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: we were designing thirty five dollar T shirts. Now we
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: can design three hundred dollar shirts and a luxury platform.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: So if we follow the path that he's making, then
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: we're able to put ourselves in a position to not
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: only like thrive like ad is asking, or like young
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Man is asking, we can now make real profits and
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: actually make a life from being designers. It's a very
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: difficult path. Preach the math actually designed the first collection
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: for my son's first, second, and third. Thank you gonna
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: say that, thank you, no, no, But I agree with um.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: We're gonna go to the next question. But I agree
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: a dent where the evolution conversation comes in. But the
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: word street is never going anywhere. Where is going anywhere.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: So however you phrase it, however you want to call
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: black people urban, all that ship is connotation. I'm talking
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: about the spirit and the selfishness, sorry, the self the
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: selfishness of the statement, and that that's where we now.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: This is the first American of African descent in the
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: luxury house. You have the world on your shoulders, you
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: have the responsibility of generations on your shoulders. You cannot
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: discourage someone who is in the streets from creating. That's discouraging.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: And we'll go to the next question. But thank you
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: d Matt for clarifying all of that. First off, I
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: am or everything you guys are doing. UM. I really
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: love what you do. H Kenny um with just from
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: college being the promoter all the way to what you've
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: done now and the legacy if you created you Um.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: But my question is where in a moment did you guys,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: turn your passion into a legacy that you've created and
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: a business for yourself. Um, because at one point you
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: were just a fly kid in high school or you
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: were just a popular kid in college. Um, and that's
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: kind of something that you know, I've always kind of
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: thought about myself. That's a great question. Thank you for
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: shouting me out. Um. You know what, who was popping
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: before Instagram? Individually? They put the motherfucking hands down. So
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: for me, I think I realized my superpowers when it
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: became no longer about me and the first time I
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: got some real money, I took all of my best friends,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: gave him forty thousand dollars a year, and we moved
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: to California, And I felt like growing up as friends,
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: it was my responsibility because we said we were gonna
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: do things together. When we moved to California, we started
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: this record Labe. We had a girl group called Dream.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: He loved Me. He looked okay, great, biggest debut girl
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: groups behind Spice Girls. But when I started happening, everybody's
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: passion and started to arise. I think, you know, in life,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: you think that you know your friends supposed to go
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: with you they're gonna go with you all the way.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: I think for me that was defined the defining moment.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: I knew I had things to offer. I knew that
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: I can offer them to millions of people, and not
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: just the tend that moved with me to UM to
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: l A. But I think that was a defining moment.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: And then it was about teaching people what I know.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: You know, d Nice and I had this thing called
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: the Nice and Burn Show, and we're creating a curriculum
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: where we're gonna college and universities of because all history
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: is his stories about things that happened in the past.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: All English is are really kind of stories of things
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: that happened in the past. And I think hip hop culture, uh,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: lifestyle culture now, um, black culture, UM, it's so important
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: to share what we know. And I think that was
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: the defining moment for me because I wanted to share
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: what I knew. I had an unconventional story at a
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: non traditional blueprint. I was convicted fella in at eighteen,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: single mother, like the whole If if I was to
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: post a child put on the screen and they don't
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: have it, if I was to post a child for
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: he ain't gonna make it it would have it had
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: been that. So I just think that you know selflessness. Guys.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: This goes back to my dear from from d C.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Like we have to share all the information, we have
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: to share all the information. We can't hold all the
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: information so close to our chest that other people cannot
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: benefit from because I think that we're doing a disservice.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: But that was when't I jumped off the porch my
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: question to you. And of course I understand all of
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: y'all of the business. I've been to your DMS before
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: and act about three years about being a mentor. But Kenny,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: I'm asking you when up Ronaldo, why is we? Why
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: is you? Why? But real talk on the most non
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: social media person. It's not respect. It's not respect. I
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: ain't you know. I ain't throwing you under the bus place.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm shine. But no real talk though, um
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: and I actually opened it up for all for you
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: because the clothes mouth don't get fed if you will
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: be open to a possibly mentoring me because I want
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: to take my man at this point, I work with
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: a mayor. I actually have a cultural fest day in
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: my city and the Goustor, Georgia August Um, so we've
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: been doing. She shooting hold on, hold on, she's shooting
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: the hell out her shot. Give her the mike, give mike.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this, hold on auto, and then you
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: can defend yourself. I tell everybody that wants to be mentor,
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: let me see your face in the place. If you're
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: around me enough and we have a conversation, we connect.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: It's organic, it's easy. So don't nobody asked that ship
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: the rest of the night. But but I'm I'm anyone
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: in here that knows me. I speak to everybody. I
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: answered every question if I'm in the vicinity. But I
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: think the best way for you to get on is
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: to show people what you have to offer and we'll
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: go forward. You want to find yourself, and she fried
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: you a little bit. She's a she's a queen. I
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: her bro. I don't go back and forthard On. But
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: who got the next question? Y'all? Um, so can't you
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: be my mentor? No? I'm just so I'm from Atlanta
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: and went to Howard, So you know, you know, so
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: coming from Atlanta and going to Howard, I feel like
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: that kind of made me think differently about fashion. Um,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: but I kind of want to bring the conversation back
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: to Virgil and Eat and Dapper Dan, like why why
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: is it that we have to attach to these high
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: fashion brands? Like there's so many designers in Atlanta, d
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: C l A, New York that have popping ship, to
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: be honest, so it's like why does why do we
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: have to attach to high fashion? Like why can't we
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: seek out these people on social media and use that
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: and then when you do get the platform. As Virgil,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: people talk about his attitude all the time. I mean,
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: I can't say which way, but Dapper Dan, even on
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club, he kind of was on some I'm
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: trying to be international. It's like, when you get to
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: a certain level, you leave the community behind that basically
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: gave you all your swag, everything that you have, all
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: your making. Well, let let me just cut it out
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: on the situation is not accurate. Dan. In the eighties
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: he would still basically from M C M Gucci, but
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: he was the hottest thing cracking. So he got in
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: some issues with that and couldn't really do it. But
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: the God works some mysterious ways. He designed a particular
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: garment that was his design, his pattern, his thought right
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Gucci remade it and didn't ask him, and then he
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: went to Gucci and said, you know this man, seventy
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: something years old, y'all took my design. I want you
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, my hall of half a dash
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: to get back pot and that that's basically what happened
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: to that. And I and I want to say this,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: that's rare in general, but for him to get his dude,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: please God give it all to him now because he
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: he had a big guy from the eighties to the
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: two thousand, nineteen eighteen before he really saw his dude.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: So you know, um, I just help people to do
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: what they say. Don't talk about it. If you're gonna
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: support somebody. If a guy said you're my teasher called
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: fifty dollars, bro, I'm not gonna ask you for no discount,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: but give the man his fifty dollars, you know what
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. The same way, if your friend that's in
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: this circle or anybody that's in here, just because you
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: don't see a celebrity wear it, that doesn't mean that
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: it's high it's not high fashion, you know what I'm saying.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: So it's like everybody in here put that same effort
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: and live by what you say. If you say that
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: you want to support and get these young designers to
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: this pedestal, that's what I do as a stolear for
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: fifteen years. I could say in this room, I don't
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: put designers on celebrities and gave them a look of life.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: You get what I'm saying, And I can stand by
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: that and guess what. I gave the designers what they
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: asked for, and I gave them the money to hould
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: support you. Because if I didn't know you, I still
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: would have brought it anyway. So it's just like, you
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: just gotta live bout what you You believe in what
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: you say, and I come from a different code. So
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: if I believe in you, I'm brock with you, even
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: if you're sitting beside a Louis and yourself is in
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: the same store. If I like it, I'm gonna buy
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: you this first on my walk out. And that's what
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: it has to be. But we gotta stop hating on
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: each other. The egos gotta go out of the way.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: This is the problem people. Black and brown people the
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: biggest haters in the world. And until we support each other,
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: like is there a baby. Is there a whole baby
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: and it's my mother, give me, give me my baby.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: I thought I was hearing ship, But I think I
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: think the problem is and the ultimate answer to your
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: question is we would be better off from a you know,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: fashion standpoint, if we supported each other. There's a lot
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: of amazing designers in the world that just don't get
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: half the chance because oh now I'm gonna get that
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: balanc of y'all. I'm gonna go get that whatever. You
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And it's cool to have all
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: of that. It's cool to be, but involve your community
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: as well. Hi, how is everybody doing? Um? When you
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: asked the question, you said, how does Virgil inspire Atlanta?
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: Immediately my mind went to how does Atlanta inspire Virgil?
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Because at the end of the day, Um, I used
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: to work at Louis Batton. I worked there for about
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: two years. I've seen I'll call some people. I've seen
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: a couple of guys in there. Um, no, you only
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: work with no but anyway, UM know, but I ain't
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: working with any anyway. I ain't working with Claude no more.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Claude is like a total sweetheart. Yes he does so Anyway,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying is we inspire the streets. We I
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: mean fashion, the streets inspire fashion that happened even back
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: from the eighties, even further than that. So you know
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say is Atlanta Vaton is about
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: to go to two stories. Okay, this is before Virgil
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: even got on, So it's not a coincidence that he
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: has his exhibit here in Atlanta. Atlanta has the highest
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: sales associate in the Louis Batton Company in in America.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, probably saying too much, but um, and it's
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: he's in men's he's in men'swear. So, um, if you
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: go inside of Louis Baton, are you go inside of
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of those high end stores, it's streetwear, it's
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: hip hop. It's a lack of people. So streetwear is
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: never going anywhere. Hip hop is never going anywhere, like
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: people are never going anywhere. So you know, it's just
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: kind of preposterous to me the way he kind of like,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: you know, said that. I just thought that that was
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: just real. So to answer your question, though, he has
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: people that's from Atlanta around him. You got in Connor,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: you got my brother Blue that with two change that
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: just did the virginal discount. You know what I'm saying,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: He has the South around him because we are everything
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: from the back when James Brown and everybody stole his style.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: He is influenced because he's paying attention to Atlanta, because
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: people from Atlanta is telling him what it's cool. Once
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: you come to Atlanta, there is nowhere else in the
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: world that like this. When you get off that off
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: that plane, the energy that you feel here is never
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: nowhere else ever in life, you know what I'm saying.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: So like, even when I go to Paris on Tuesday,
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: they represent with wish, They're gonna know that I'm just
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: gonna drop that. You're right when they see me, they
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: go and guess what, I'm wearing Atlanta designers the whole
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: time I got my whole outfit. I'm wearing runchy the
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: first day I'm when all friends welcome to the next day,
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: I don't represent everybody. That's so when somebody watching they
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: see me walking, They're gonna say, bro, whatre you I'm
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: from Atlanta while I live in Atlanta. That's the best
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: thing in the world is that? So if you want this,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: you gotta come to Atlanta, come to Wish and we're
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: gonna supply you, and then you go back home and
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: you tell the world where you got it from. So
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: trust me when I'm it's gonna be respected. That's why
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: the outcast muror is over there a little five points,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So he is respected and
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: and he has had an influence around him every day.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: Trust me. So it's all right, little baby, we got there.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: All right. I appreciate you all. What's going on? How
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: y'all doing South American New York? And I've been in
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: Atlanta for about fifteen years. My question is it's gonna
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: be a little off pointing, but uh, Nipsey hustle been
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: getting that new legend non legend kind of status. But
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: the same thing for streetwear. Um, I've been shopping that
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: motive for for since it started. Since respect new buildings
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: that Wish. I'm trying to get some of that Coca Cola,
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I see you, I see you,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Kenny Burns. Um, But how can we give our flowers
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: to the new street where the new street legend? Because
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: I'm definitely a consumer. A lot of what I got
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: on is just been paid for on the regular. I
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: ain't designer, I ain't coming up. But how can we
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: give flowers to the new street where the old street where?
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: Or the Atlanta Street where as a whole I'd say,
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: go by their whole collection. Now every time they do
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: a pop up, every time they dropped them, go by
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: the whole thing Atlanta, Atlanta fashion is up for grabs,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Street where is up for grabs there? To your point,
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: there's nobody leading the pack that everyone across the world
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: has to have. I think it has to be supported
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: locally before can be supported worldwide. The efforts that everyone here,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: from Quasi putting in his store, from you know, Ronaldo
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: putting it in his store, from Scott just being fly like,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: I think you have to literally support it and I
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: don't know, you know. To to his point, yes, by
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: it where it, But at the end of the day,
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: tell people about it and you know, and that's the
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: only way we can grow and own fashion like we
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: own music. And I think that also this is this
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: conversation is coming full circle because it has a whole
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: pop up like experience where the clothes could be in
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: her store. When they're in her store, you can buy
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: them and this is a cycle. So we have literally
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: in this room. We have the designers, we have the
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: brick and mortar, we have the promoters, we have the fashionists.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Everybody is here. It's just about utilizing each other. Come on,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: we got three more questions out here. What name is
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: a mirror? I got a clothing line called a Miyor James.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: And my question is how do we develop a fashion
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: house of our own to build that value for for
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: black designers. We got a gang of talent out here.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: How do we develop a fashion house of our own
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: to cultivate the talent to bring it up and through. Yeah,
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: I say it's here. What we said it a couple
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: of times is here. But you know, brick and mortar
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: is a smart way if you want a fashion house,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: to build your own fashion house, I don't I don't
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: think that there's you know, there's a guy by the
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: name of Howdiaki who does custom clothing, and I don't
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: know if y'all know what he's doing, but he has
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: five floors of awesomeness from lounges to be spoke areas,
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: to get fitted to play pool wash TV. So I
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: think you gotta build it. You build it they will come.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: My name's LaToya. I'm from North Carolina and my question
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: is for Sky, what advice would you give to other
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: young women trying to enter into a Caucasian or male
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: dominated field such as fashion and set design? And how
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: do you enter into some of these environments if you're
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: not really were I'm not really sure where to begin at.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: I've been waiting for that question. Thank you very much
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: for asking. As the only woman on this panel right now,
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: I would like to to speak to my ladies. UM.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: It is quite difficult, and it takes a lot of
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: time and perseverance and thick skin, and that comes from
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: being knocked down many times by many different situations. But
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: if you have, if you know for a fact that
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: that whatever you're doing is exactly what God puts you
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: on this earth for, there's literally nothing that anybody else
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: can do to you, Like you literally get knocked down
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: and you wake up in the morning and you think
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: to yourself, like, well, what else would I be doing
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: with my life? This is what the funk I want
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: to do? Right, So you should keep on going. You
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: have you can't stop. Um. As it relates to being
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: a woman in a male dominated sector, UM. So I'm
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: a set designer, A built sets for music videos, so
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: to shoot TV shows stuff. UM, and I have been
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: the only woman in situations many times. UM, but sometimes
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: that's that's my advantage. UM. I can be the voice
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: of reason in situations where there's a lot of male
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: energy and people look to me for the to be
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: the voice of reason. So you just have to figure
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: out how to use you and your talents to your
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: advantage and then figure out how to work the system.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: So what exactly do you want to do what you do?
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: I would love I would love to get your contact
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: and UM, I would love to bring you onto a
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: set with me the next time I have something. Look
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: at God, I love your Scott. I would like to
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: just say this. And I know I'm not a woman.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: You know you can detect bad energy off the rip
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: and I think there's a lot of the times we
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: think we're supposed to put up with some bullshit to
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: get something, and I promise you that is not the
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: way to go. And also we tend to put our
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: hopes and false prophets hands. We tend to put ourselves
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: in people's way that really don't want to do nothing,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: but for themselves and I I've worked with everybody, and
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: you can google me and look at the pictures in
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: the history, but I want to really share that nine
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: of these people I wasn't trying to help me. I
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: had to find a way. You're gonna have to deal
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: with something in life because just shift around every corner,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: but you're gonna have to be able to detect the
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: bullshit quicker than then before you get on your clothes.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: And I'm stressing this to y'all because I know we
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: have a lot of entrepreneurs in here, and it's hard
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: to go through life knowing that there's so many evil
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: people and so many people that don't want to help you.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: But you have to know that you are one of one,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: and that you are necessary and that you have a
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: purpose on this earth. And you have to have that
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: mindset when those doors get closed or those people aren't
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: giving that help and hand up. And you have to
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: be unapologetic about what you want. You have to And
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: also we'll get to the next talk where is a
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: difference between what you want what you need, but go
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: after what you want because you seem like you're in
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: your early twenties. I just want to add one out.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: I want to add one more thing to that. So
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: you said interior and set design, so haven't done. I've
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: done both of those, interior for Club Daydreams and set
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: designed for Trot Music Museum and Dinner. For having done
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: both of those, people have told me to choose many
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: many times. They told me, like, choose one thing and
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: just like put all of your energy into that, which
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: is valid. But if you don't, honestly, if you don't
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: know which one you want to do, continue doing both.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: It's gonna make you tired. But that's fine. You're young
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: where it's time for you be tired. You can work, um,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: do both until you figure out which one weighs heavier,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: and then choose. Don't let people tell you that. Don't
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: let people limit you, because that's something that I wish
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: someone would have told me when I was younger. So
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: that's very important. And if you work long enough, they'll
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: pay you to be you. Trust me, We got right here, man.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, brother, I didn't mean to look y'all. I
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: can't to the whole panel up there and expected my
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: man right here, track star. I still remember those days
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: and ken Burn, but but the retail model is about capital,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: brand awareness, and distribution. Right, So where do you see
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: Nipsey Marathon store fitting into that and being the distribution
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: for some of these streets where brands coming up, if
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: he's putting them into our neighborhoods, and the way I
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: view it is kind of like the strip club where
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: where Future and the rest of the guys will bring
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: them mixtapes and put it out there. So if you
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: have these distribution outlets like a Nipsey store and others
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: where local people can bring their stuff and market it
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: into the streets, how do you see that working. It's
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: just like wishure. It's just like we're talking about with
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: these brick and mortar concepts. If you build a store
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: and you want to have motiple, I mean, Amanre, I
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: mean there's there's a lot of them, social status, there
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: are a lot of them that are popping up. And
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: actually what you're what you're saying as far as sadly enough,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: the marathon thing, I think that's a phase. I don't
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: know how long that would last as a distribution hub,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: but I do applaud wish I applaud aman yeah, Motor
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: four for so just that these are the hubs you're
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: talking about, and they should be just like Renaldo was
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: just mentioning the hubs for Atlanta streetwear culture, for streetwear
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: culture in general, if you have an opportunity to present that,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: that's the distribution you're talking about, and I think it's happening.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: I think we should celebrate it more. I know my
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: first trip is still to Wish for shoes. I go
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: certain place forst certain things. I go to Quasi for
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: certain So you know, I think that as they grow,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: the model should grow um and there will be more
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: distribution opportunities for street where brands brands in general. And
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: I could just say openly that I'm approachable to any
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: brand um if it's amazing our presented, especially the team
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: and of you know us that wishes we believe in
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: it as well as because we're gonna support everything that
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: comes out of Atlanta. That anybody could pull up on me,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. If you've got a major
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: dope brand and stuffing to pull up on me, meet
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: me outside in the back of the parking lot and
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: wish we're gonna talk people to pull up on you.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: This is the A but it's an open door house
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: that you know, and it's a family. I wish that
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: we're open to anybody. If we feel like your businesses
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: is in order, we going to support that because it
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: is a business, like you said, and if it's not
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: in order, I'm that's my responsibility to tell you this
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: is what you need to do, so then I could
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: put it in Wish so we could support you to
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: the world. And so like any brand out here, I
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: openly say, feel free to come pull up on me,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: we have a conversation, have your line sheets and everything
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: like that, because that's what wishes the family We're going
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: to do is support in Atlanta and take it to
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: the world because we want everybody just to feel like
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: if they come need a brand, that they could come
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: to Wish and get it only in Atlanta because it
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: is Atlanta, you know what I'm saying. So I mean,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: we support it, you know, but just don't don't be
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: don't be scared, man, Just pull up. Man. If it's amazing,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna rock with it. We got one more question
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: closing remarks to get over to this. Uh good evening.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you'll coming out. When I saw a T
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: Street where it was gonna be here, and now I
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: was like, I'm there. Definitely one thing like they're saying,
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: is obviously a t L we have it. When I
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: look at these brands, like on California, see how many
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: people to each other. I know, I got people got
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: vans on. I look at Brixton, I look at our
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: v c A, I look at Levi's, I look at
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: the California Republic. All those are California brands coming out
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: of Orange County. And when I look at those brands,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: I say, what are they doing? They capture like they're
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: capturing the surf culture, the scape culture. We have our
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: culture all right, and it's the music. So like they said,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: we got a lot of dope brands in Atlanta, let's
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: remain to stick together, just like we've done in the music.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: But as we stick together, let's make sure we've got
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: our business type. One thing for me is, you know,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: when I'm looking at somebody like you know the Rocks,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: Rock Fellow, you know rock Nation, and what they're doing
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: with planes, they're looking for ex strategies. They want to
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: remain some ownership. But what I'm also looking at is
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: we're here and I know there's a lot of entrepreneurs
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: in the room. There's a lot of brands in the room.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: But one question I haven't heard tonight was obviously we
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: get to a certain point and we're like, all right,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: I spent this much money, I need a little push.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: Where's the invest Grisette, where's the venture capitalists? Set I'm down,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: raise your hands. I mean you've got the money or
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: you're looking for investor. I'm looking for the investor. And
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: once again, I'm sorry. My name is Ann Mathis. I
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: represent Atlanta Good Company, and if it's possible, can y'all
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: invite some of the investors venture capitalists and stand up
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: here before we leave to night? Thank you, my brother. No,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you all this though. And to his point,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: money ain't hard to find. It's just what you're looking forward.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: And I promise you, good brother. There's so many people
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: with disposable income in Atlanta and that come through Atlanta.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: You know I would I would plot and playing a
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: little different. I would look. You know. I don't know
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: if you know about Paul Judge, but he has an
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: incubator on the tech side that he puts smack in
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: the in the middle of the city and they have
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: every month they give away a hundred thousand dollars to
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: a business in tech. Figure out you're at part of
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: your clothing game. Trigger the system, get the bag, give
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: me temper. Do we have time for one work? One more? Can?
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: Can Ronaldo get the Plague guy? You said you saw
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: somebody Ronaldo? Yeah, I'm the Plaque guy. Hey, what's up
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: you guys? Um Scott Freeze at Last Clothing six Feathers Clothing.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: I was born in Atlanta, shout out. I just want
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: to say, Ronaldo and dude been following your curve forever
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: and been going to Wish since they had the DJ
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: booth up top motor forty four at Killers like an
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: all homieh for for Kenny Burns a specialist anyway, man. Like.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: What I want to just say is how inspired I am.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: But what I'm seeing tonight, it's it's amazing to see
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: this amount of people here engaging and seeing streetwear culture
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: and just fashion culture in general in the city. I've
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: been here so long, I've seen since it was super
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: country and the ship wasn't popping, and even if you
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: were white and you hung out what black people people
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: would like think you were crazy. And so I'm saying
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: you know, to see this and be part of this
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: and watch what you guys are doing and see how
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: you're pushing the culture and how long you've been doing
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: it for. I've been messing with wishing since I was
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: a little boy, you know what I mean. And now
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: I've come up in this thing and we're doing some things,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: we're making some moves finally, and it's nice to be
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: part of this. And so what I wanted to stand
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: up and say to everybody in this room is you're
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: all part of this and we have a real opportunity
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: right now to really take Atlanta to the next level.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: And I see it happening and it's so inspiring. It
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: opens my heart, it opens my mind, and I'm just
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: I'm so honored to be part of this. And I
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: wanted to tell the people on the stage. I've been
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: watching her for a long time and it's so nice
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: to see you on that stage. It's so nice to
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: you to have this conversation. Yo, bro, I'm gonna send
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: you a bunch of that. How about you. I got you,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: we got a studio down the road. I got y'all.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: But like straight up, like I have honor and what
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: you've done and what you're doing, and it really has
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: gone come a long way, and it's an honor also
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: to be here at this growth in the city and
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: everybody in this room who's part of this and pushing like,
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: don't be discouraged. I can't tell you how many times
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: I've been hungry and just kept going despite everybody said
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: that's not gonna work. And now we're at a moment
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: when it's gonna work. The music popped, the film popped,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: and that's our turn to pop. And so thank you
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: for what you've done in the community. And you guys
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: right here, I'm not editing that out. Hello, this is crazy, y'all.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: I kind of I pay attention to everything. You Remember
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: that one autist I told you that inspired me coming
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: from Miami. He's right here, to the right of me.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: I see him a gift, give respect times in the building, sir,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: listen inspired the whole fashion game for me, for your
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: man out of the South. I tell you that already.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: Hold you put that image on the on the screen
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: from the from Wish, from the back of Wish. So
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: we're gonna give our clothes and remarks. Guys, um, I
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: don't have too much to say but Atlanta, you know,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: thank you for inspiring me. Thank you for giving me
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: the opportunity. I want to be half a wish. We
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: opening the backup February. We got some amazing stuff. Guy's
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  Speaker 1: about the change and pushed the culture of Atlanta to
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  Speaker 1: the sky. Um, all I'm gonna say is the both
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  Speaker 1: ladies truly gonna be mad at me. But we're building
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  Speaker 1: the baddest motherfucking store in Atlanta. The ship is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be incredible. I promise you. I'm gonna go broke because
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  Speaker 1: all my money gonna go back in the store. But
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  Speaker 1: y'all have a home to come to. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be experienced, man, and like feel free. Man out staff
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  Speaker 1: is amazing justin Malachi. You know what I'm saying, Ladies.
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  Speaker 1: You know we have an amazing photographer named Nikon p
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  Speaker 1: So guess what if y'all want to come model for us,
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  Speaker 1: we support it. If you wanna get your model on,
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  Speaker 1: you have a home. You know what I'm saying. Wishes
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  Speaker 1: there man, and we're supporting everything Atlanta. So just gonna
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  Speaker 1: pull up on them. You know, I sit outside with
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  Speaker 1: you in the back. You know, go to the Zesttos
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  Speaker 1: or something. But thank you. I just want to say
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming in, spending your time
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  Speaker 1: to listen to us ramble for the past hour and
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  Speaker 1: a half. Thank you for being a part of this
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  Speaker 1: conversation with us and pushing this culture forward. Um. And
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  Speaker 1: from a personal personal note, thank you Atlanta for welcoming me.
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  Speaker 1: I've been here for thirteen years and I truly became
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  Speaker 1: a woman at this at this city and my business
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  Speaker 1: group here. Shout out to the Trap Music Museum. See
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  Speaker 1: y'all back there, I see y'all. Yes, indeed, thank you
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  Speaker 1: again Atlanta for coming out tonight. This is a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: And UM, I hope that we continue to actually have
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  Speaker 1: these type of panels so we can have some of
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  Speaker 1: input and also some feedback from you guys. And I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be in business for you guys for fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to say thank you from the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of heart. Feel up forever. I love Atlanta. Or that
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  Speaker 1: was hard? Shout out? Are you into that player? So
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  Speaker 1: do y'all stand up with me on my last one?
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I want to give a shout out
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  Speaker 1: to these beautiful human beings for joining me on this
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  Speaker 1: on this panel. I do want to say this. It's
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  Speaker 1: okay to hold your superheroes accountable. It's okay to ask questions.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay to have discussion, because see, the only way
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  Speaker 1: we can fortify our community is if we have conversation.
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  Speaker 1: We cannot point fingers, we cannot blame. We can hold
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  Speaker 1: people accountable. Though, So please, if you're going to join
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  Speaker 1: us in the hallway, we'll say hi and take pictures
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  Speaker 1: and do all that. Aaron, are we gonna go straight over?
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  Speaker 1: Is everybody getting it free? Shout out to Aaron and
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  Speaker 1: everybody gets in for free. There's a discount at the shop.
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  Speaker 1: Everything is free, coffee, table books, Oh the shirt, no, God,
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  Speaker 1: bless you'll. We'll see you all upstairs. It's Ullio.