November 21, 2024 • 32 mins
The Breakfast Club Sits Down With Telfar Clemens Reveals New Bag Designs, And Talks Flagship Store Opening. Listen For More!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wake that answer up in the morning. The Breakfast Club
more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Everybody's the DJ n V Jesse Larious, Charlamagne the guy.
We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest
in the building for Queens, New York Queens. Get the money.
He got a lot of it. He got a lot
of it.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Ladies. Fall Club is welcome, brothers.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
What's up Breakfast Club? Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
How you feeling this morning?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I feel good. I'm glad to be here with y'all.
Glad to be here with y'all. H glad to be
here with y'all. Lots of new things going on. I'm
back in being to a Manhattan night. So I'm like,
lots of cool things are coming to the city.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
So you know I have to come and drop y'all
off of the newest news, all the new things.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
What is the newest news?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, first off, November twenty third, the tell Our Store open.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Congratulations in New York.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
In New York City, We're gonna bring back, you know,
going downtown so Ho shopping loitering. You know, I'm going
to be down there where all the fake bags are
and the real ones, and we can pick and choose.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But they just recently did a sting and they say
they got forty million dollars worth of fake bags.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Off the streets.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
That's horrible. That's horrible, And leave those people alone. I'm like, yeah,
what is it. They don't have anything better to do,
you know. It's like I love to be able to
go down I love seeing my bag down there. I'm like,
that's when you know you made it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
But that doesn't affected sales though, the fact that somebody
can get your bag fake.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It's the same price, that's the same price. I made
good friends with all the bag dealers down there. They're
very sweet men. It's very sweet man.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
That's definitely like a different way of looking at it.
I love that. I love that trying to you know.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
No, you know, it's like the bag's the same price,
so it's like we're going to be on the same street,
we're sharing the same turf. You know, they might be
selling the same bag.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
How long has it taken for you to actually get
your store.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
You've been talking about it for a while.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah. I dropped the news actually here two years ago.
When I said it, my team started like scrambling to
try to do it, and we're like, wait, if we're
going to do it, we need to really do it.
It shouldn't be a pop up. So this isn't a
pop up. And it's on the eve of the twentieth
year anniversary of this brand, which is really cool because
this is what I wanted to do, you know, yeah,
(02:28):
the whole time, because this is the type of brand
that is three sixty that you need to kind of
experience everything together in one place. You know. It's tying
back to the TV station that we have tell Far TV,
so a lot of the you know, like people that
come to the store will get a chance to be
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a part of that TV process and that's where all
the new Runway shows are gonna be. Yeah, it's just
like you know, like the clothes like are made for
a certain type of person, and like the stores that exist,
you know, that person isn't really like you know, cater
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to You're not you know, so you know, I'm a
Unix brand. That's not that section in you know, any store.
So I have to do it myself, and I think
it's going to be a really interesting experience that people
are going to be able to take part in.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You have enough product, right, because that's one thing people
always say that when they try to buy your bags
or your stuff is sold out.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
They're sold out.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
If you have at with only one bag because it's
sold out, how you fix that problem.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
That's why you knock the people on canav Street, That's why.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Go back down there. They might have it before.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
You know, we're good friends now, so you know the
real ones are out there. But I mean, like there's
no more like you don't have to wait for the drops.
Like when you go to the store, you can basically
get any bag, any size, any color, and bags that
you haven't even seen yet will be there. And then
also to the main thing is like you know, really
(04:06):
getting to experience the clothing. So there's one section that's
for clothing, one section that's for bags, and then one
section that's for TV so and all those things will
you know experience.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
But does that make you nervous though, because one of
the things about tell far War.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
People love the bags, they love the clothes.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
But some of the mystique was trying to get it
right because you know it's sold out.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You got to get the drop before the drop date.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
But that was part of the mistike getting kind of
like with sneakers, Right, you want to get you want
to win it on that app but everybody to get
to this it's like I don't want it. So how
does that affect business?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well, I think that that's not what we were trying
to do in the first Yeah, that's just a beautiful
thing that happened, and it helped to like because that's
when I took the business basically like independent, you know,
like we weren't like trying to sell the stores. Just
was kind of during COVID and it really it was
like the most beautiful thing because that's when I realized that,
(05:04):
you know, the brand was bigger than what you know,
like a store could project how much to buy or
like you know, the industry could predict how much you
can sell in the season. You know, it was like
bigger than that. So I it was reassurance of this
next process that you know, should happen now.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
For people that don't know, you here a couple of
years two three years ago and you talked about this.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But I want for people that's just listening now, because
some people might have just heard about you in the
last two years, right, Lake Comers. For people that don't know,
the first question I would get was You're from Queens,
New York, the same.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Place as Nori.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Right, how did a young boy from nor from left
Rack get into making bags and how did it become successful?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And fashion? You know? I you know, I always have
been interested in clothes. I've always had, like, you know,
my own perspective on what I wanted to wear. I
love both women and men's clothing and the right type
of thing that I was allowed to wear or you know,
like you know, like I come from West African parents,
(06:09):
you know, I'm from Liberia, you know, and there's like,
you know, a certain way of how you should dress
and how you should carry yourselves. And I completely like
was not with that shit. So it's like I wanted
to be me, like literally like actively tried not to
go to any school that had uniforms or anything like
that because that's the way I expressed myself, you know
(06:30):
what I mean. So from very young, I knew what
I wanted to do, but I didn't know what that
that was a job.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I wanted to be an accountant. I was like really
really really really really good at accounting, you know, So
that's what I thought I was going to do, and
then be able to like buy and you know, like
afford the clothes that you know that I saw. And
when I actually like was going down that path, I'm like, wait,
I'm really interested in fashion and making it and selling
(07:01):
it to people rather than like math. And also too,
it's like the things that I wanted to wear didn't exist,
you know, and it didn't exist for like, you know,
like a person like me to be like, oh, that's
the thing that I want to wear. It's like where
can you get that? It's like I have to make it,
you know. So it's like challenging myself and you know,
the industry that I'm in to kind of understand where
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it's coming from, which is like, you know, I think
that I actually had to like divorce myself from the
industry to be able to do, you know, because it's
just like it's not made for the type of brand
that I am.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And I was going to ask that people are so
closed minded, especially the time that you were growing up, especially.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Especially in Queens.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
That's like that's the grit for me, you know, like
all of that, you know, like what you can't do
and like walking down the street and like five million
people being like bagget this that the other is like.
For me, that was like reassurance, you know, and I
know that that can be dangerous for like people that
just don't want the energy all day. For me, I
used to be like, yo, I'm I'm doing it right,
(08:04):
and I like that. And then it's like seeing people
look like me a couple of years later and being like, damn,
you look gay. You know.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
It's like you know, and it's just like.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
All of that is exciting for me. And that's like
when you see that that's what people look like, it's
like that means you did something and you actually changed,
you know, you actually did something.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
A fight, you not a fight.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I got a lot of brothers. I can talk a
lot of shit.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Okay, that's because coming out of left rack down at
elevator when he's seen Tims and caught hearts and all
that and you're wearing whatever you want to know, it
was like they probably had jokes. I'm like, you must
know how to fight a lot of Yeah, my brother
is not.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
How to fight. Shout out to all my brothers. I
love them, and also to my neighborhood. Was really like,
I think New York's a different thing. You know, because
I also grew up in Maryland, DC, Virginia too, CMV.
You know, Maryland's also seems like more like you know,
closed minded when you're like in the suburbs and different
places like that. But all of that, all of those
experiences like shape, the type of clothes that I wear,
(09:04):
and the types of challenges I want to like take on,
you know, because I'm like, that's what those people wear
over there. I want to twist it like this and
like change it like that, and then we're all wearing
you know, these different tropes of like American culture that
get twisted and this different way that make a whole
new thing.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Now, in the last four years, your brand has become
one of the biggest black owned brand names and without
any investors, without any stores, any traditional advertising.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
How stuff did you do all it?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It's the people. It's the people, you know, like you
see a mayor of yourself. Even like how I relate
to the Internet, It's like I don't really use it.
It's like I just see other people that post things,
you know, like they post themselves in the bag, they
post their lives, you know, and it's like, really, the
bag is like this entry way that people begin to
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like enter into the brand and like kind of understand
what's behind it. But it's like it's like I've been
doing this for twenty years, you know, and each each
year I make two collections a year, you know, and
this bag has helped us be able to kind of
communicate it and people can get a piece of it
in this kind of way. And I'm excited to see
(10:16):
how you know, it being available. They're being a store
this third component in the business now, you know, like
what happens in real life because it's a real life brand.
It's not an Internet brand.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, it's like before the Internet. It's like you can't
even google me.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
And what I love is that you never change your prices,
like even when everything because listen, I'm gonna be honest
with you, I didn't buy one into I say, be honestly,
what I got, I definitely, But I just love the
fact that even with that all the recent success with everything,
(10:54):
you still have not skyrocketed your prices.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Like Sundaysign Style. Money doesn't buy a style like the
Brokent people are the fly as people ever always been.
Like that's like where style and styling culture isn't bought,
you know what I mean. That's like again latecomer attitude,
you know, and I really like that's the person that
I want to be able to be in things. It's
like I'm not necessarily it's like broke, but it's just
(11:19):
like it's like it's not a challenge, you know what
I mean. It's like if you're going to try something
new that you haven't ever worn before, never trying before,
type of thing you never seen before, it's like you
should be able to get it, test, drive it around,
get three colors of it, throw it away, give it
to your friend, take it back, you know, wash it
(11:39):
in the washing, you know what I mean. It's like
that's the type of fashion that is fashion to me. People.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
You know, people for a long time thought Beyonce was
an investor, right me?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, who thought that. I've seen her aline because she
wore she wears the bag, So people like, you know
Beyonce just don't wear anything.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
She she has a lot of investment, like in both
my brain knowledge, you know. Just like that's the person
I've followed my entire life. Like that's like legend icon
also too, just like the Knowles family, like Solange was
one of the first people to ever wear a tell
far bag and have a tell far bag and like
have me participate in like you know, like a project
(12:19):
that she's doing. So it's like just the sweetest, most
beautiful people. So if they're investors, yes in that sense. Yeah, yeah,
in that sense, but you know, I think like everybody's
an investor in that sense, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
And how did you meet people?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, invested in this you know business that's now a business.
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
How did you meet that family? How did you meet
the Nole's family through Solange?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Through Solange? Yeah, like we met each other. We did
a project at the Googenheim when she was like doing
doing her album Rollout for a Seat at the Table.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, I had just gotten back from Europe. Loved the album.
She was asking me to do this thing at the
Google Teim, which was like really cool. There's one of
a kind one time performance, like everybody wore white, like
and you know, like I dress like the entire cast
of this like performance. I think it was like maybe
like fifty sixty people. That's dope. And that was like
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one of the first things that like you know like
kind of like the style of like runway shows that
I want to do are like it's involved in that,
you know what I mean. That's like it's not like
walking down a catwalk like that. You know, it's like
a music style, gotcha, you know. So there's new things,
you know, and there's just like a memorable experience. And
(13:39):
that was like one of the first most beautiful things
that I got to do.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
You know what is tew far TV? What can we expect?
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Tell far TV? You're on it right now.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It's an interactive public access experience that's kind of very
similar to like the energy that you see online and
then all of our videos that we make, but I
think in more long form, I would say, and also too,
it's like, you know, you can add things to it
yourself by posting your own videos on it. I think
(14:13):
we're building it right now. I think with the TV
station and different projects that are coming on and just
like you know, being here right now, I record every
day of my life and.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
You have a camera on your glasses, So that's wow,
that's dope.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
So each time that you see me in these glasses,
you get to be a part of this experience that
is to Far TV.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yes, so you always a fly on the wall.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, I'm a flyer, right, you know, I keep my
mouth shut, you know. But it's like it's been a
part of just different projects. That's how we release different clothes.
Sometimes it's like different things are going on in my
life and rather than having like a camera crew with
me all the time, I'm the camera crew. I see
how people actually react to me, you know what I say.
(15:01):
It's like, yeah, it's like this very like kind of
unique practice to how I want to start releasing clothes.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
And they're slick, like they're they're definitely slick. They not
just you know, yeah, you're definitely given.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I want to ask.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I noticed, like when you google your bags, you see
a lot of designers starting to copy.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
What you do.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I see y'all too right, Yeah, what I.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Was saying, any names like coach, how does.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That shot shout out to Stuart Vivers, who was like
a very very very good mentor doing c F d A.
You know, like, it's just it's what it is. I'm
gonna let you speak. I'm gonna I'm gonna let you speak, So.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I'm not a lot of their stuff looks exactly like
the line that you put out.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
But you know, how does that affect you?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Because you design it, you put your heart and energy
into it, and to see other people, you know, kind
of mimic to what you're doing. How does that affect
you and the brand and the business and mentally, yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Without collaborating without it, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And I think, like, you know, I have really really
really really really beautiful customers and a fan base that
like if you know, you know, you know, and I'm
not in competition with you know them, you know. I
started doing this thing kind of like as like like
when I made that bag, it was based off of
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the Bloomingdale shopping bag, and I was like just around
during Christmas and I was like, Damn, everybody looks so
good when they have when they have come from shopping.
I was like, bags all sizes. I was like, Damn,
everybody looks good. A man, a baby, you know, like
everybody looks good. I was like, I was like, I
want to make a bag like that, and I want
a bag like that that has my logo on it,
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you know what I mean. And we started like that,
and then we started to refine what it was made
out of, you know, and we were like, you know,
like maybe it should be made out of something that's
not It's like, I'm not like this type of person
that's like it needs to be this material on this material.
I'm like, it's more like is it useful? Like do
you look good?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
And like what it is, it can be categorized in
all different kinds of ways. So it's like, you know,
like we decided to call it a vegan leather bag.
That was just like this joke on people that like,
you know, a steam vegan that's still like you know,
it's like I eat meat, you know what I mean,
but it is vegan because it's not leather, you know
what I mean. So it's like when we did that
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and just like all these different takes on things that
you know, on the industry's standard of what is desirable
and what is you know, what is fashion? You know
what I mean, it was like it was really a
take on that and having that be like actually, like
you know, the mascot and the vehicle that got me
to the place that I am. I'm like thankful for
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that because everybody can take place in that. Just like
it's like this New York thing that just became global,
you know what I mean, but make a lot of
different bags. Though I did, did I did?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I did?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
And also to I have a really big surprise, like
a really big surprise. Well, it was not too big.
It is not too small. It's not too small. It's
a size in between. It's a size in between that
everybody's been asking for. Like literally, I get hate mail
about not making the size of bag. So this is
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going to be available only at the store and only
with you.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Guys love it today. And also to.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I brought you guys the new gear from the store. Yes, yes,
did we bring the I T C New York? I
might be lying? And if I did it, no.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You're lie everything.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I don't lie. I don't like, I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I want to ask is there more pressure for black designers,
Like I look at some of the black designers and
when they put out clothes, I feel like they get
crucified a whole lot more like I don't want the designers.
Curby he was in my aid for a couple of months.
People were criticizing him.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Oh, Kirby, I hope you're well.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
You know, so is it more? Do you get criticized more?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Do you feel like they criticize black designers more than
white designers or other designers I should say.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I mean, first off, let's just start at like white
designers aren't called white Designers's true? Yeah, yeah, you know,
it's that level of It's like I have I have
to really learn that, you know, because it's like when
I first started making clothes, I think people thought I
was Japanese just because of the aesthetic of what the
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clothes are and these different things, and like when they
saw me, they're like, oh, you know what I mean,
and it's like and I I have to just like really,
that's like within the other person and within like our
own community too, of like what you're supposed to look like.
And I'm like, I love being able to challenge what
that is, you know, and also to everybody being able
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to accept that as not just like a black thing,
but just like a thing on fashion. It's like when
I travel all over the world, I take little bits
and pieces of these things, and it starts to come
back to these things. But then again, I'm like in
left racket, I'm like, oh, and I know what this is,
and I know what that is, and on that person,
it becomes this whole new world of like what it
can be, you know what I mean? And yeah, it's
(20:36):
like I think getting it first and getting it having
it hard is like part of fashion. It's like if
you actually believe in it, it's like take the hard road.
It's like if you actually want to look like that
and you are that girl or that person, like do that,
you know what I mean. It's like like again like
I said, like I will walk down the street and
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people will be like, you know that's what you actually know?
You might be doing something right. And if you actually
just look like that. It's like I'm not changing my
clothes every day. I didn't change my clothes every day,
you know, like back in the day, and like I
ride a bike everywhere. But it's like I really respect
the person and it's like, you know, I wore this
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this morning, I took the train, came home, went to
this thing. It's like you're actually that person. You're not
putting on a costume like Instagram or something like that.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
You know, you take enough money now where you don't
got to take the train everywhere now.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You know, I haven't taken the train in a very
long time, and I don't even think I took the
train back in the day like that, because I ride
a bike everywhere, Like I said, I ride a bike Queens, Brooklyn,
Manhattan in all in one day, you know, and handle
all my business from all year round. So it's like
I've never been like it's like, whenever I get on
the train, it doesn't come. That's how you know. I'm like,
(21:50):
I'm actually from Left Rock City. If you know about that.
It's like when you get on the train and it
doesn't come, but you have to get back out. Yeah,
it's like yeah. So it's like, you know, the fashion.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
When you first broke into the industry, you did it independently, right,
any of the fashion houses try to box you out
because the way that you move was totally different from
anywhere else.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I think, you know, I just had like I like,
what I do? You know, It's like I've gotten offers
from everybody from everybody, gotten offers from everybody, you know.
And it was around a specific time around like twenty
twenty when people wanted a black face to be a
mascot for a brand that's not black owned, you know,
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to be acceptable for the time being. You see twenty
twenty four, things are shifting back it's like I force
like I enjoy what I do. I have the freedom
to do what I want to do, say what I
want to say, you know, which is really important. Have
the freedom to choose, you know, like when I put
out a collection, how I put it out and with
(22:57):
who you know, and I couldn't imagine being able to
do that in this system. Is like, like I said,
I had to actively choose to leave the fashion industry
because I'm like, it's not it's not it's not what
this brand's about.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
You know, why didn't you Why didn't you sell? Like
because I mean, I'm sure they will offering a lot
of money.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Again, No, it's like the deal that most designers get.
It's like you make a like small amount of whatever
your business is the first.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Off they sent you, if you remember.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
They they who I'm like, you know first it's like
kind of like, you know, people want to produce a collection,
which I would love to produce, you know, and making
that sacrifice to be able to do runway shows and
fashion weeks and all these things. But do you get
to sell those clothes? No? You know, like do you
(23:51):
actually sell those clothes? No? And it's like that's why
most designers have just this little runway to be able
to make it or it or it's all over, you
know what I mean. And it's like season to season,
and it's like do I want to do that? And
go to Europe to do that where it's like I
could just get fired any second because you know, and yeah,
(24:12):
and it's like I enjoy what I do, you know
what I mean. So I've been trying to figure it
out independently, you know, and figure it out with my heart.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I've been doing this since I was fifteen, Like my
name is on it, you know what I mean. And
it's like, you know, I lived in Asia and I've
lived in Europe, and it's like it makes a lot
of sense here, you know what I mean. It's like
I'm home, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Do you want to sell?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
No, there's nothing I could sell and I'm not about
selling anything. It's like I own my own name. It's
like everybody in my company is like I have a
company with my best friends, you know that. Actually they've
been through all different kinds of you know, realms of
(24:59):
different fashion industry is sat worked with different brands and
designers and different things like that, and it's like who
owns their name. There's not a lot of people. And
it's like for me, that's like a big thing. It's
like if I didn't want to do this, you know,
I'd be okay.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
It's like it's like, actually, you know, opening a store
in this industry, like doing all the things that I'm doing,
you know, to actively. It's not about money. You know,
like even the store that I'm opening is not about money.
You can come there and try on some ship and
take a picture in the New Age kind of way
and put the ship back.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Don't tell people that.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
No, I'm gonna tell them that it's an interactive store.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I don't I don't want to buy different.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You see that all the window shops coming right.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I'm a window shopper too. I go through all of
the stores that try something on, look through it to
turn it inside and outside, and I'm like, do I
really want it? We'll see tomorrow. If I wake up
and think about it tomorrow, I'll text someone and be like, yo,
can you send me that ship? You know what I mean.
But it's like it's like it's more special when it's
(26:13):
like someone actually wants you to be in nothing. You
know what I mean, and I want people to be
in that thing. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Gotcha, now, Beyonce, do you send to every piece of
clothing or bag y that you put out?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Beyonce? I heard she just like she does it herself.
She's the queen. I don't know. I haven't even ordered online.
I think she hits someone up and she has good
people working for her, so you know, like, yeah, I can't,
I can't. Like she works in mysterious ways. I'm like, yeah,
I didn't. I didn't even know he did that.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
You know, so giddy you still get giddy and excited
anytime you see her wearing a bag.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I get giddy and excited when I see like everybody
wearing a bag, Like I get giddy and excited when
I see you wearing a sweatshirt. You know, it's like
I watch y'all show in the morning, like you guys
the voices of the morning.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
My wife don't. By the way, I just want you
to know, definitely.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Well, November twenty third, you can come down to this
store and get another Broadway at Canal Street. We're bringing
downtown back. We can loiter, you can try some ship on.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Wait the game. Yeah, that's bringing the gift.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
My beautiful sister will coming bearing, coming bearing, and you
know what I need to do.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Need I need a bigger devil? Did you make a
bigger devil?
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Okay, like you have? Do you have the big one?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
That's like I call it a one day like.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
No, yeah, you got the big one?
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Sorry, thanks for having me, y'all.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Y'all right now we.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Got some good things. So, oh my god, this is
the new bag. It's this size.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
It's the new size.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
It's the new size.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
It's not too big, it's not this one.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Medium.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, and it was available only only only at our
store for only a short media million, million, short amount
of time. So like you gotta get it. You can
only get it at the store. Maybe we'll put it online.
Do you think we should put it online? Yes, it's
(28:32):
the size everybody's been asking for.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
You're so welcome and also envy. I got you a sweatshirt.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I see New York. I t C New York. You
see you can get the Canal Street look just like DJ.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
And check out the back. Check out the back. Check
out the back. Check on the back. Tell us what
that says, tell us what that says? Eight seven seven six.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yes, you can call the request the bag for those
of you at home that can't make it to the store.
November twenty third is the opening of the store. But
hopefully this store will be open forever and many years
to come. So don't all come the same day. Don't
you know you have a party. Don't all come the
same day unless you're with the ships and then let's
(29:22):
do it.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Now, tell us about that day. So you're doing a
grand opening, you're doing block opening, you're doing something for
people to perform.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Right, Oh my god, damn heavy oat.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Okay, just got all it.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah, see you listen to DJ Envy, listen to the source.
The party and the opening is gonna be November twenty third.
If you want to come by and be a part
of Telfur TV on that day, please just stop by
and see us, or don't and come the next day
the twenty fourth, or the twenty fifth, or the twenty sixth,
(30:01):
or the twenty seventh, or the twenty eighth or the
twenty ninth or the thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I don't think thirty second Chris.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, it's like I think we might be you know,
like I want to do really interesting things with this store.
It's not all about shopping. So sometimes we'll have a
TV show being taped there at the same time. Maybe
we'll be shooting a music video, maybe we'll be having
a drink, you know. But yeah, just want things to
work differently. And yeah, I'm excited. I'm happy, happy to
(30:36):
be here for breakfast.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
My name Bushwick Burking came from where Where did that
come from?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Damn it came from the internet. I'm like, damn to
for our shopper, Like why everything got to be related
to a burker? Who's this woman?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Like why do y'all want that bag?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
And I guess, like, you know, I can take the
esteem or whatever the street says it is. But you know,
tell fur shopper and lots more to come.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah, we appreciate you joining us. November twenty third, Yes,
opening of the first.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Store Canal Street and Broadway, and make sure you head
out there.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
There's gonna be all types of things giving away.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
There's gonna be a lot of fun, it's gonna be performances,
and go out there and make sure you support and
purchase somebody. You know, your your fans and your supporters are.
They don't play about.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
You, about y'all either. Don't play about y'all either. This
is your store. Please come and bless it, you know,
treat us well. Let's like, you know, let the city
be what they used to be.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
You know, well, let's tell fall Clemens, we appreciate, we
appreciate all the gifts.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
On tomorrow, just with the media, tell it's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Wake that answer up in the morning. Breakfast Club
Wake that answer up in the morning. The Breakfast Club
more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Everybody's the DJ n V Jesse Larious, Charlamagne the guy.
We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest
in the building for Queens, New York Queens. Get the money.
He got a lot of it. He got a lot
of it.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Ladies. Fall Club is welcome, brothers.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
What's up Breakfast Club? Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
How you feeling this morning?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I feel good. I'm glad to be here with y'all.
Glad to be here with y'all. H glad to be
here with y'all. Lots of new things going on. I'm
back in being to a Manhattan night. So I'm like,
lots of cool things are coming to the city.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
So you know I have to come and drop y'all
off of the newest news, all the new things.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
What is the newest news?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, first off, November twenty third, the tell Our Store open.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Congratulations in New York.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
In New York City, We're gonna bring back, you know,
going downtown so Ho shopping loitering. You know, I'm going
to be down there where all the fake bags are
and the real ones, and we can pick and choose.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But they just recently did a sting and they say
they got forty million dollars worth of fake bags.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Off the streets.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
That's horrible. That's horrible, And leave those people alone. I'm like, yeah,
what is it. They don't have anything better to do,
you know. It's like I love to be able to
go down I love seeing my bag down there. I'm like,
that's when you know you made it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
But that doesn't affected sales though, the fact that somebody
can get your bag fake.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It's the same price, that's the same price. I made
good friends with all the bag dealers down there. They're
very sweet men. It's very sweet man.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
That's definitely like a different way of looking at it.
I love that. I love that trying to you know.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
No, you know, it's like the bag's the same price,
so it's like we're going to be on the same street,
we're sharing the same turf. You know, they might be
selling the same bag.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
How long has it taken for you to actually get
your store.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
You've been talking about it for a while.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah. I dropped the news actually here two years ago.
When I said it, my team started like scrambling to
try to do it, and we're like, wait, if we're
going to do it, we need to really do it.
It shouldn't be a pop up. So this isn't a
pop up. And it's on the eve of the twentieth
year anniversary of this brand, which is really cool because
this is what I wanted to do, you know, yeah,
(02:28):
the whole time, because this is the type of brand
that is three sixty that you need to kind of
experience everything together in one place. You know. It's tying
back to the TV station that we have tell Far TV,
so a lot of the you know, like people that
come to the store will get a chance to be
(02:48):
a part of that TV process and that's where all
the new Runway shows are gonna be. Yeah, it's just
like you know, like the clothes like are made for
a certain type of person, and like the stores that exist,
you know, that person isn't really like you know, cater
(03:11):
to You're not you know, so you know, I'm a
Unix brand. That's not that section in you know, any store.
So I have to do it myself, and I think
it's going to be a really interesting experience that people
are going to be able to take part in.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You have enough product, right, because that's one thing people
always say that when they try to buy your bags
or your stuff is sold out.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
They're sold out.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
If you have at with only one bag because it's
sold out, how you fix that problem.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
That's why you knock the people on canav Street, That's why.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Go back down there. They might have it before.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
You know, we're good friends now, so you know the
real ones are out there. But I mean, like there's
no more like you don't have to wait for the drops.
Like when you go to the store, you can basically
get any bag, any size, any color, and bags that
you haven't even seen yet will be there. And then
also to the main thing is like you know, really
(04:06):
getting to experience the clothing. So there's one section that's
for clothing, one section that's for bags, and then one
section that's for TV so and all those things will
you know experience.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
But does that make you nervous though, because one of
the things about tell far War.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
People love the bags, they love the clothes.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
But some of the mystique was trying to get it
right because you know it's sold out.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You got to get the drop before the drop date.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
But that was part of the mistike getting kind of
like with sneakers, Right, you want to get you want
to win it on that app but everybody to get
to this it's like I don't want it. So how
does that affect business?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well, I think that that's not what we were trying
to do in the first Yeah, that's just a beautiful
thing that happened, and it helped to like because that's
when I took the business basically like independent, you know,
like we weren't like trying to sell the stores. Just
was kind of during COVID and it really it was
like the most beautiful thing because that's when I realized that,
(05:04):
you know, the brand was bigger than what you know,
like a store could project how much to buy or
like you know, the industry could predict how much you
can sell in the season. You know, it was like
bigger than that. So I it was reassurance of this
next process that you know, should happen now.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
For people that don't know, you here a couple of
years two three years ago and you talked about this.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But I want for people that's just listening now, because
some people might have just heard about you in the
last two years, right, Lake Comers. For people that don't know,
the first question I would get was You're from Queens,
New York, the same.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Place as Nori.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Right, how did a young boy from nor from left
Rack get into making bags and how did it become successful?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And fashion? You know? I you know, I always have
been interested in clothes. I've always had, like, you know,
my own perspective on what I wanted to wear. I
love both women and men's clothing and the right type
of thing that I was allowed to wear or you know,
like you know, like I come from West African parents,
(06:09):
you know, I'm from Liberia, you know, and there's like,
you know, a certain way of how you should dress
and how you should carry yourselves. And I completely like
was not with that shit. So it's like I wanted
to be me, like literally like actively tried not to
go to any school that had uniforms or anything like
that because that's the way I expressed myself, you know
(06:30):
what I mean. So from very young, I knew what
I wanted to do, but I didn't know what that
that was a job.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I wanted to be an accountant. I was like really
really really really really good at accounting, you know, So
that's what I thought I was going to do, and
then be able to like buy and you know, like
afford the clothes that you know that I saw. And
when I actually like was going down that path, I'm like, wait,
I'm really interested in fashion and making it and selling
(07:01):
it to people rather than like math. And also too,
it's like the things that I wanted to wear didn't exist,
you know, and it didn't exist for like, you know,
like a person like me to be like, oh, that's
the thing that I want to wear. It's like where
can you get that? It's like I have to make it,
you know. So it's like challenging myself and you know,
the industry that I'm in to kind of understand where
(07:22):
it's coming from, which is like, you know, I think
that I actually had to like divorce myself from the
industry to be able to do, you know, because it's
just like it's not made for the type of brand
that I am.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And I was going to ask that people are so
closed minded, especially the time that you were growing up, especially.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Especially in Queens.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
That's like that's the grit for me, you know, like
all of that, you know, like what you can't do
and like walking down the street and like five million
people being like bagget this that the other is like.
For me, that was like reassurance, you know, and I
know that that can be dangerous for like people that
just don't want the energy all day. For me, I
used to be like, yo, I'm I'm doing it right,
(08:04):
and I like that. And then it's like seeing people
look like me a couple of years later and being like, damn,
you look gay. You know.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
It's like you know, and it's just like.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
All of that is exciting for me. And that's like
when you see that that's what people look like, it's
like that means you did something and you actually changed,
you know, you actually did something.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
A fight, you not a fight.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I got a lot of brothers. I can talk a
lot of shit.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Okay, that's because coming out of left rack down at
elevator when he's seen Tims and caught hearts and all
that and you're wearing whatever you want to know, it
was like they probably had jokes. I'm like, you must
know how to fight a lot of Yeah, my brother
is not.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
How to fight. Shout out to all my brothers. I
love them, and also to my neighborhood. Was really like,
I think New York's a different thing. You know, because
I also grew up in Maryland, DC, Virginia too, CMV.
You know, Maryland's also seems like more like you know,
closed minded when you're like in the suburbs and different
places like that. But all of that, all of those
experiences like shape, the type of clothes that I wear,
(09:04):
and the types of challenges I want to like take on,
you know, because I'm like, that's what those people wear
over there. I want to twist it like this and
like change it like that, and then we're all wearing
you know, these different tropes of like American culture that
get twisted and this different way that make a whole
new thing.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Now, in the last four years, your brand has become
one of the biggest black owned brand names and without
any investors, without any stores, any traditional advertising.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
How stuff did you do all it?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It's the people. It's the people, you know, like you
see a mayor of yourself. Even like how I relate
to the Internet, It's like I don't really use it.
It's like I just see other people that post things,
you know, like they post themselves in the bag, they
post their lives, you know, and it's like, really, the
bag is like this entry way that people begin to
(09:54):
like enter into the brand and like kind of understand
what's behind it. But it's like it's like I've been
doing this for twenty years, you know, and each each
year I make two collections a year, you know, and
this bag has helped us be able to kind of
communicate it and people can get a piece of it
in this kind of way. And I'm excited to see
(10:16):
how you know, it being available. They're being a store
this third component in the business now, you know, like
what happens in real life because it's a real life brand.
It's not an Internet brand.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, it's like before the Internet. It's like you can't
even google me.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
And what I love is that you never change your prices,
like even when everything because listen, I'm gonna be honest
with you, I didn't buy one into I say, be honestly,
what I got, I definitely, But I just love the
fact that even with that all the recent success with everything,
(10:54):
you still have not skyrocketed your prices.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Like Sundaysign Style. Money doesn't buy a style like the
Brokent people are the fly as people ever always been.
Like that's like where style and styling culture isn't bought,
you know what I mean. That's like again latecomer attitude,
you know, and I really like that's the person that
I want to be able to be in things. It's
like I'm not necessarily it's like broke, but it's just
(11:19):
like it's like it's not a challenge, you know what
I mean. It's like if you're going to try something
new that you haven't ever worn before, never trying before,
type of thing you never seen before, it's like you
should be able to get it, test, drive it around,
get three colors of it, throw it away, give it
to your friend, take it back, you know, wash it
(11:39):
in the washing, you know what I mean. It's like
that's the type of fashion that is fashion to me. People.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
You know, people for a long time thought Beyonce was
an investor, right me?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, who thought that. I've seen her aline because she
wore she wears the bag, So people like, you know
Beyonce just don't wear anything.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
She she has a lot of investment, like in both
my brain knowledge, you know. Just like that's the person
I've followed my entire life. Like that's like legend icon
also too, just like the Knowles family, like Solange was
one of the first people to ever wear a tell
far bag and have a tell far bag and like
have me participate in like you know, like a project
(12:19):
that she's doing. So it's like just the sweetest, most
beautiful people. So if they're investors, yes in that sense. Yeah, yeah,
in that sense, but you know, I think like everybody's
an investor in that sense, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
And how did you meet people?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, invested in this you know business that's now a business.
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
How did you meet that family? How did you meet
the Nole's family through Solange?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Through Solange? Yeah, like we met each other. We did
a project at the Googenheim when she was like doing
doing her album Rollout for a Seat at the Table.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, I had just gotten back from Europe. Loved the album.
She was asking me to do this thing at the
Google Teim, which was like really cool. There's one of
a kind one time performance, like everybody wore white, like
and you know, like I dress like the entire cast
of this like performance. I think it was like maybe
like fifty sixty people. That's dope. And that was like
(13:18):
one of the first things that like you know like
kind of like the style of like runway shows that
I want to do are like it's involved in that,
you know what I mean. That's like it's not like
walking down a catwalk like that. You know, it's like
a music style, gotcha, you know. So there's new things,
you know, and there's just like a memorable experience. And
(13:39):
that was like one of the first most beautiful things
that I got to do.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
You know what is tew far TV? What can we expect?
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Tell far TV? You're on it right now.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It's an interactive public access experience that's kind of very
similar to like the energy that you see online and
then all of our videos that we make, but I
think in more long form, I would say, and also too,
it's like, you know, you can add things to it
yourself by posting your own videos on it. I think
(14:13):
we're building it right now. I think with the TV
station and different projects that are coming on and just
like you know, being here right now, I record every
day of my life and.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
You have a camera on your glasses, So that's wow,
that's dope.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
So each time that you see me in these glasses,
you get to be a part of this experience that
is to Far TV.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yes, so you always a fly on the wall.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, I'm a flyer, right, you know, I keep my
mouth shut, you know. But it's like it's been a
part of just different projects. That's how we release different clothes.
Sometimes it's like different things are going on in my
life and rather than having like a camera crew with
me all the time, I'm the camera crew. I see
how people actually react to me, you know what I say.
(15:01):
It's like, yeah, it's like this very like kind of
unique practice to how I want to start releasing clothes.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
And they're slick, like they're they're definitely slick. They not
just you know, yeah, you're definitely given.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I want to ask.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I noticed, like when you google your bags, you see
a lot of designers starting to copy.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
What you do.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I see y'all too right, Yeah, what I.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Was saying, any names like coach, how does.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That shot shout out to Stuart Vivers, who was like
a very very very good mentor doing c F d A.
You know, like, it's just it's what it is. I'm
gonna let you speak. I'm gonna I'm gonna let you speak, So.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I'm not a lot of their stuff looks exactly like
the line that you put out.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
But you know, how does that affect you?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Because you design it, you put your heart and energy
into it, and to see other people, you know, kind
of mimic to what you're doing. How does that affect
you and the brand and the business and mentally, yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Without collaborating without it, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And I think, like, you know, I have really really
really really really beautiful customers and a fan base that
like if you know, you know, you know, and I'm
not in competition with you know them, you know. I
started doing this thing kind of like as like like
when I made that bag, it was based off of
(16:28):
the Bloomingdale shopping bag, and I was like just around
during Christmas and I was like, Damn, everybody looks so
good when they have when they have come from shopping.
I was like, bags all sizes. I was like, Damn,
everybody looks good. A man, a baby, you know, like
everybody looks good. I was like, I was like, I
want to make a bag like that, and I want
a bag like that that has my logo on it,
(16:48):
you know what I mean. And we started like that,
and then we started to refine what it was made
out of, you know, and we were like, you know,
like maybe it should be made out of something that's
not It's like, I'm not like this type of person
that's like it needs to be this material on this material.
I'm like, it's more like is it useful? Like do
you look good?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
And like what it is, it can be categorized in
all different kinds of ways. So it's like, you know,
like we decided to call it a vegan leather bag.
That was just like this joke on people that like,
you know, a steam vegan that's still like you know,
it's like I eat meat, you know what I mean,
but it is vegan because it's not leather, you know
what I mean. So it's like when we did that
(17:32):
and just like all these different takes on things that
you know, on the industry's standard of what is desirable
and what is you know, what is fashion? You know
what I mean, it was like it was really a
take on that and having that be like actually, like
you know, the mascot and the vehicle that got me
to the place that I am. I'm like thankful for
(17:53):
that because everybody can take place in that. Just like
it's like this New York thing that just became global,
you know what I mean, but make a lot of
different bags. Though I did, did I did?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I did?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
And also to I have a really big surprise, like
a really big surprise. Well, it was not too big.
It is not too small. It's not too small. It's
a size in between. It's a size in between that
everybody's been asking for. Like literally, I get hate mail
about not making the size of bag. So this is
(18:34):
going to be available only at the store and only
with you.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Guys love it today. And also to.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I brought you guys the new gear from the store. Yes, yes,
did we bring the I T C New York? I
might be lying? And if I did it, no.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You're lie everything.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I don't lie. I don't like, I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I want to ask is there more pressure for black designers,
Like I look at some of the black designers and
when they put out clothes, I feel like they get
crucified a whole lot more like I don't want the designers.
Curby he was in my aid for a couple of months.
People were criticizing him.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Oh, Kirby, I hope you're well.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
You know, so is it more? Do you get criticized more?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Do you feel like they criticize black designers more than
white designers or other designers I should say.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I mean, first off, let's just start at like white
designers aren't called white Designers's true? Yeah, yeah, you know,
it's that level of It's like I have I have
to really learn that, you know, because it's like when
I first started making clothes, I think people thought I
was Japanese just because of the aesthetic of what the
(19:51):
clothes are and these different things, and like when they
saw me, they're like, oh, you know what I mean,
and it's like and I I have to just like really,
that's like within the other person and within like our
own community too, of like what you're supposed to look like.
And I'm like, I love being able to challenge what
that is, you know, and also to everybody being able
(20:14):
to accept that as not just like a black thing,
but just like a thing on fashion. It's like when
I travel all over the world, I take little bits
and pieces of these things, and it starts to come
back to these things. But then again, I'm like in
left racket, I'm like, oh, and I know what this is,
and I know what that is, and on that person,
it becomes this whole new world of like what it
can be, you know what I mean? And yeah, it's
(20:36):
like I think getting it first and getting it having
it hard is like part of fashion. It's like if
you actually believe in it, it's like take the hard road.
It's like if you actually want to look like that
and you are that girl or that person, like do that,
you know what I mean. It's like like again like
I said, like I will walk down the street and
(20:56):
people will be like, you know that's what you actually know?
You might be doing something right. And if you actually
just look like that. It's like I'm not changing my
clothes every day. I didn't change my clothes every day,
you know, like back in the day, and like I
ride a bike everywhere. But it's like I really respect
the person and it's like, you know, I wore this
(21:17):
this morning, I took the train, came home, went to
this thing. It's like you're actually that person. You're not
putting on a costume like Instagram or something like that.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
You know, you take enough money now where you don't
got to take the train everywhere now.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You know, I haven't taken the train in a very
long time, and I don't even think I took the
train back in the day like that, because I ride
a bike everywhere, Like I said, I ride a bike Queens, Brooklyn,
Manhattan in all in one day, you know, and handle
all my business from all year round. So it's like
I've never been like it's like, whenever I get on
the train, it doesn't come. That's how you know. I'm like,
(21:50):
I'm actually from Left Rock City. If you know about that.
It's like when you get on the train and it
doesn't come, but you have to get back out. Yeah,
it's like yeah. So it's like, you know, the fashion.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
When you first broke into the industry, you did it independently, right,
any of the fashion houses try to box you out
because the way that you move was totally different from
anywhere else.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I think, you know, I just had like I like,
what I do? You know, It's like I've gotten offers
from everybody from everybody, gotten offers from everybody, you know.
And it was around a specific time around like twenty
twenty when people wanted a black face to be a
mascot for a brand that's not black owned, you know,
(22:35):
to be acceptable for the time being. You see twenty
twenty four, things are shifting back it's like I force
like I enjoy what I do. I have the freedom
to do what I want to do, say what I
want to say, you know, which is really important. Have
the freedom to choose, you know, like when I put
out a collection, how I put it out and with
(22:57):
who you know, and I couldn't imagine being able to
do that in this system. Is like, like I said,
I had to actively choose to leave the fashion industry
because I'm like, it's not it's not it's not what
this brand's about.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
You know, why didn't you Why didn't you sell? Like
because I mean, I'm sure they will offering a lot
of money.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Again, No, it's like the deal that most designers get.
It's like you make a like small amount of whatever
your business is the first.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Off they sent you, if you remember.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
They they who I'm like, you know first it's like
kind of like, you know, people want to produce a collection,
which I would love to produce, you know, and making
that sacrifice to be able to do runway shows and
fashion weeks and all these things. But do you get
to sell those clothes? No? You know, like do you
(23:51):
actually sell those clothes? No? And it's like that's why
most designers have just this little runway to be able
to make it or it or it's all over, you
know what I mean. And it's like season to season,
and it's like do I want to do that? And
go to Europe to do that where it's like I
could just get fired any second because you know, and yeah,
(24:12):
and it's like I enjoy what I do, you know
what I mean. So I've been trying to figure it
out independently, you know, and figure it out with my heart.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I've been doing this since I was fifteen, Like my
name is on it, you know what I mean. And
it's like, you know, I lived in Asia and I've
lived in Europe, and it's like it makes a lot
of sense here, you know what I mean. It's like
I'm home, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Do you want to sell?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
No, there's nothing I could sell and I'm not about
selling anything. It's like I own my own name. It's
like everybody in my company is like I have a
company with my best friends, you know that. Actually they've
been through all different kinds of you know, realms of
(24:59):
different fashion industry is sat worked with different brands and
designers and different things like that, and it's like who
owns their name. There's not a lot of people. And
it's like for me, that's like a big thing. It's
like if I didn't want to do this, you know,
I'd be okay.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
It's like it's like, actually, you know, opening a store
in this industry, like doing all the things that I'm doing,
you know, to actively. It's not about money. You know,
like even the store that I'm opening is not about money.
You can come there and try on some ship and
take a picture in the New Age kind of way
and put the ship back.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Don't tell people that.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
No, I'm gonna tell them that it's an interactive store.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I don't I don't want to buy different.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You see that all the window shops coming right.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I'm a window shopper too. I go through all of
the stores that try something on, look through it to
turn it inside and outside, and I'm like, do I
really want it? We'll see tomorrow. If I wake up
and think about it tomorrow, I'll text someone and be like, yo,
can you send me that ship? You know what I mean.
But it's like it's like it's more special when it's
(26:13):
like someone actually wants you to be in nothing. You
know what I mean, and I want people to be
in that thing. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Gotcha, now, Beyonce, do you send to every piece of
clothing or bag y that you put out?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Beyonce? I heard she just like she does it herself.
She's the queen. I don't know. I haven't even ordered online.
I think she hits someone up and she has good
people working for her, so you know, like, yeah, I can't,
I can't. Like she works in mysterious ways. I'm like, yeah,
I didn't. I didn't even know he did that.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
You know, so giddy you still get giddy and excited
anytime you see her wearing a bag.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I get giddy and excited when I see like everybody
wearing a bag, Like I get giddy and excited when
I see you wearing a sweatshirt. You know, it's like
I watch y'all show in the morning, like you guys
the voices of the morning.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
My wife don't. By the way, I just want you
to know, definitely.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Well, November twenty third, you can come down to this
store and get another Broadway at Canal Street. We're bringing
downtown back. We can loiter, you can try some ship on.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Wait the game. Yeah, that's bringing the gift.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
My beautiful sister will coming bearing, coming bearing, and you
know what I need to do.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Need I need a bigger devil? Did you make a
bigger devil?
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Okay, like you have? Do you have the big one?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
That's like I call it a one day like.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
No, yeah, you got the big one?
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Sorry, thanks for having me, y'all.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Y'all right now we.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Got some good things. So, oh my god, this is
the new bag. It's this size.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
It's the new size.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
It's the new size.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
It's not too big, it's not this one.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Medium.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, and it was available only only only at our
store for only a short media million, million, short amount
of time. So like you gotta get it. You can
only get it at the store. Maybe we'll put it online.
Do you think we should put it online? Yes, it's
(28:32):
the size everybody's been asking for.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
You're so welcome and also envy. I got you a sweatshirt.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I see New York. I t C New York. You
see you can get the Canal Street look just like DJ.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
And check out the back. Check out the back. Check
out the back. Check on the back. Tell us what
that says, tell us what that says? Eight seven seven six.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yes, you can call the request the bag for those
of you at home that can't make it to the store.
November twenty third is the opening of the store. But
hopefully this store will be open forever and many years
to come. So don't all come the same day. Don't
you know you have a party. Don't all come the
same day unless you're with the ships and then let's
(29:22):
do it.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Now, tell us about that day. So you're doing a
grand opening, you're doing block opening, you're doing something for
people to perform.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Right, Oh my god, damn heavy oat.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Okay, just got all it.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah, see you listen to DJ Envy, listen to the source.
The party and the opening is gonna be November twenty third.
If you want to come by and be a part
of Telfur TV on that day, please just stop by
and see us, or don't and come the next day
the twenty fourth, or the twenty fifth, or the twenty sixth,
(30:01):
or the twenty seventh, or the twenty eighth or the
twenty ninth or the thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I don't think thirty second Chris.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, it's like I think we might be you know,
like I want to do really interesting things with this store.
It's not all about shopping. So sometimes we'll have a
TV show being taped there at the same time. Maybe
we'll be shooting a music video, maybe we'll be having
a drink, you know. But yeah, just want things to
work differently. And yeah, I'm excited. I'm happy, happy to
(30:36):
be here for breakfast.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
My name Bushwick Burking came from where Where did that
come from?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Damn it came from the internet. I'm like, damn to
for our shopper, Like why everything got to be related
to a burker? Who's this woman?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Like why do y'all want that bag?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
And I guess, like, you know, I can take the
esteem or whatever the street says it is. But you know,
tell fur shopper and lots more to come.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah, we appreciate you joining us. November twenty third, Yes,
opening of the first.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Store Canal Street and Broadway, and make sure you head
out there.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
There's gonna be all types of things giving away.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
There's gonna be a lot of fun, it's gonna be performances,
and go out there and make sure you support and
purchase somebody. You know, your your fans and your supporters are.
They don't play about.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
You, about y'all either. Don't play about y'all either. This
is your store. Please come and bless it, you know,
treat us well. Let's like, you know, let the city
be what they used to be.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
You know, well, let's tell fall Clemens, we appreciate, we
appreciate all the gifts.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
On tomorrow, just with the media, tell it's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
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