Everything in Bryant’s life has always been about fashion. Throughout elementary school, high school, and college, his passion for clothing was rooted deep into his soul; he just had to dig up his true calling.
Tell me what you were passionate about when you were younger. Your elementary school days? Everything when I was younger was all about basketball. The NBA was everything to me. I mean, my name is Bryant. I’m named after a legend. I started playing when I was 5, so I always thought it was my ultimate goal.
So what happened in Middle School? What was your passion at that time? It was still basketball. I think I was beginning to realize that my dreams to go into the NBA were slim because of my height. But, overall, my passion was still basketball. I made the team in 8th grade, so it was still everything to me
In high school, what did you picture yourself doing in the future? I was in denial about the NBA, it was always in the back of my head, like maybe that can happen. But I would say around that time, I was beginning to get lost. But I always knew I wanted to do something with business.
So when your peers started talking about the future, how would you respond? In those years, I wouldn’t really talk about it. I always knew I wanted to own a business, but the passion on clothing I hadn’t found yet. I was interested in architecture, but I wasn’t passionate about it.
Where did architecture come from? [laughs] I was just interested in sketching. But, I would just sketch. I always liked math and sketching so I figured it was the right fit.
You graduated high school, What made you choose CSUN? It was the only school that accepted me [laughs]
That was the only reason? No, no, my sister was going there, my mom was thinking about going to that school, and a lot of my homies were going there too. I just wanted the college experience and living in a dorm. I never tried to major in anything clothing. But after living in the dorms, I realized it wasn’t fun. So I dropped out.
What made you drop out? Well my friend called me up and was like, “Bro, you’re never going to believe what happened. I dropped out.” I was also doing bad in school, so we met up at a McDonald’s and talked about it. We related and began to talk about our clothing dreams. We had both been dreaming since high school, so we decided to make it happen.
Do you think your underlying passion throughout everything was clothing? I was passionate, in the sense of that I love to dress. But it didn’t reach the point of me wanting to dress other people. We always had ideas throughout high school about a clothing brand, but it never worked out.
Now that you have a brand, what’s next? It’s honestly a step by step process. I’m always sketching. We have to get trademarked, and then we can go from there.
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