
Attended Bauber College and studied Fashion Merchandising
Hometown: Bronx, NY
Life Motto: “Make the money don’t make the money make you. Or my pop favorite one, a promise is a comfort to a fool. Don’t let people be out here promising you anything, like oh yea so and so is gonna get me this, so I’m just gonna wait and get it. If you can get it yourself, go get it yourself.”
Follow his clothing brand on IG: bvdrootsclothing
What is your definition of the grey area? Would you say you are in it currently?
- “I would define the grey area as a block. You are only worried about what’s going on at that moment and you almost kinda loose track of what you are supposed to be doing. It’s like a creative block. Sometimes I want to sit down and think about what I want to do next with the clothes but I get caught up in how I’m going to pay my bills today or whatever. Then I kinda look at it like oh shit. I kinda push the clothes aside to deal with bills and my life and things like that.”
- “I wouldn’t say I’m in it currently. I would say I’m on the way out of the grey area. I feel like the grey area is a little bit of everything. Karma could play into it cause of course if you are a shitty person you gonna get what you give. But, I don’t know sometimes I feel like… like you said…just cause something doesnt work out doesnt mean it wasn’t meant to happen. But, sometimes stuff aren’t meant to happen so that’s why they dont work out. You might try something and you always see it going wrong because it wasn’t meant to happen.”
How do you want to be remembered? (1-3 sentences)
- “I want to be remebered as the Fashion King. As a person that transits, I made everybody around me flier. I’m cool with that.”
Is your post-college timeline still the same? If not, what changed?
- “Although I didnt finish, I still style people here and there. People just , idk, like I said, it’s always what I’ve done, people ask me to find them clothes or an outfit. They give me the money and I go into the city and get them an outift. I literally just did that yesterday. But I mean now, within time, I gotten into graphic design thing a little bit more . I didn’t really think I was going to go into that area cause I was like damn I dont really know how to do anything. But I got good at photoshop and illustrator. I guess I did graphic design too, I didn’t think I would be into graphic design at all.”
How do you view college now?
- “Scam. Scam likely. You see that scam likely pop up on your phone. I mean, college…unless you taking a business class. It almost teaches you to work for people and I feel like if you want to win you can’t work for anybody. You got to actually…like the doctors and the lawyers out here that really are out here in these fancy cars own their own firms. You gotta teach y’all how to work for somebody or be good at working for somebody. You dont wanna be good at working for somebody you want you to work for you.”