Each panelist spoke on topics such as perceptions of streetwear, sustainability through community, how the term “entrepreneur” is applied to their creative output, and also dove into the familial backgrounds which served as their earliest inspirations.
“Dynasty and I are from Flatbush, Brooklyn,” Soull said. “Inside of our household, there was a melting pot already happening. Our mom is from Dominica in the West Indies and our dad is from Nigeria and we’re first generation. So while we were trying to exhibit being from Flatbush, in the house it was a lot of Caribbean and African happening. Whether it was the music, the food, the clothing, the way that our parents dressed, or the way that they dressed us. When we stepped outside, there was also that larger spectrum of this melting pot.”
Bravado added, “my grandmother had a church not too far from here–1191 Bedford Avenue. So Sunday mornings, a lot of us know as black people, African-American people, Caribbean-American people, is when you put on the finest. And my dad being a tailor and coming over to the country, he’s from Barbados, my mom from St. Vincent. It was an affair to see everyone get dressed on Sunday morning.”
