I'm from Queens, New York. I was born and raised in New York. I've been into fashion, my whole life. But I started off, with sneakers, buying and selling shoes when I was in middle school. And then that kind of transitioned into streetwear. So like Supreme and Bait, like the hype brands at this time, it was kind of a different world. The street where it kind of transitioned into high-end stuff. And then I got into like archive fashion and that's kind of like what I do now. Archive fashion is basically old clothes from designers that I collect, sell, rent out. I think like the most important thing in fashion right now is archive fashion.

I got into sneakers cause my friends were into sneakers, like Jordan's. And then I had this one friend that was really, really big into sneakers, had really, really rare shoes. He had a social media following. He was a little older than me, but he's what inspired me to get into sneakers. I started posting on Instagram with my shoes and join the sneaker community through him kind of. The first shoes that I bought were the, Jordan bred 11s.
I went to sneaker con with my mom. I remember I was so young. I was in sixth grade. It's probably the biggest sneaker convention in the world. It's like convention, you go to a warehouse or whatever, and everyone have their table set up with their sneakers and everyone's buying and selling shoes. I, and then I sold them at sneaker con the first, my first sneaker convention. I remember we had no tickets and my mom came with me and my brother, we had waited five hours in line freezing cold, we had no tickets. And then someone, some random dude came up to us and like, gave us free tickets because he didn't want to wait in line anymore. My mom, she waited like five hours for that.

It was just snowball effect from there. Sneaker community was already reselling a lot. I just like saw opportunity that you can make money off of it because, like, you'll buy a shoe, and then get sick of it and then you want the next thing. So like, When you start selling your old shoes and buying new ones, you realize that there's money into it. It got the motivation. I reached the point where I was buying and selling shoes that were 2 to 3, 000. Because you keep wanting like the more expensive shoe, I mean, you want to make money to get the better shoe, it's kind of like a cat and mouse game, but that's kind of how I got into selling shoes. I would want something cooler than what I already had. I never really had that many shoes at one time. I'd usually be like five to 10 pairs, but it's pricey. The shoe closet was constantly changing. One week I have 5 shoes and the next week it's a whole different five shoes, you know what I mean? I would make a couple hundred bucks off a pair of shoes.

I don't know if you're familiar with StockX, it just wholesales the shoes, it became a wholesale game. So like all the love for shoes just went away, I guess that's why that's how I got into fashion. Cause I didn't want to adjust to wholesaling. 8th grade, I stopped, stopped with shoes. High school is where I got into fashion, high fashion. 8th grade, I was going to Barney's New York and hanging out in SoHo too. Barney's shut down though. I would go there all the time, when I was super young and, just check out the off-white clothes and like fear of God and, Kanye's new Yeezy collection. I'd be wearing Supreme at school. I was just like fooling around. Like that's all I cared about. I thought, and being so young gives you a little bit of an ego.

I started archive fashion like five, six years ago. But it's definitely a trend right now. A lot of people like don't know. It's still very under the radar even though the community has become very large. Archive fashion is like the rarest. You could walk into, into, a designer store like Neiman Marcus or Bergdorf. And like, you can buy, and anyone can go in there and buy the latest designer stuff. You can buy the craziest, rarest, most expensive thing. But what's, what's beyond that. And that's archive fashion. That's like, you can get, that's even rare.
We sell archive fashion. Our, our job is basically to find new brands, the next trend. We sell clothes to multiple rappers and Artists and famous people. Our job is basically to find new pieces, new archive pieces, rare old stuff that is unattainable, and also just new brands. Like we have to discover new brands to bring to light.

It's so fun, if, if like I find a piece or like one of my friends find a piece for a really good deal, we'll call each other immediately. Like, "Yo, yo, I just found this." Like, it's like looking for gold. The only sad part is that it just gets really expensive. Like, you know, it's like, how much can you possibly, possibly own. I'm just a college student. I make all my money on my own strictly through like selling these clothes. I can only own a certain amount at a time. I don't really want to sell anything anywhere. I've been doing buying and selling clothes and stuff for like my whole life.

Everything I sell, I love everything I sell. I don't want to sell. You know, that's also another part of the game is you get the clothes and it's not gettable again. So it's like, it's really like, you have to make a decision whether you want to sell it or keep it. when I buy it, I'm like, I absolutely love that piece. I want to wear it. But at the same time, in the back of my mind, I am like, "I'm getting it for a really cheap price and will be sold it at expensive price." Some people are offering an unrefusable price too.

When I sell clothes, because it's kind of an intimate parting, like, you know, these clothes are rare, you wear them and you become them and you don't want to sell them. I just appreciate the, the history of the clothes. I appreciate the collections, and I appreciate what the clothing means and why the designer made it. It's not just about the money, is not just about status. It's about, it's about just, I don't know, I just, I appreciate and miss the history.

I would say definitely a memory, for sure. You know that the fashion industry like Soho and like how people dressed and hanging out in Soho, completely different world, something I like, I honestly miss, it's the 100 percent of memory. I have friends that are from New York that we were around since 2012 or 2014 and hanging out in New York City and like being part of that trend and seeing how it evolved. It's 100 percent of memory, going to the city when I was super young, skipping school and middle school and going to New York City. That sounds crazy because I'm all the way from Queens. It's really far away. But I just loved it, it was way better back then. Now there's just, it's so oversaturated, it's just a different world.

I have a lot of friends, guy friends that are from different States, that moved here to go to school, FIT. And like, they're into the same thing as I'm into like fashion, but they don't understand like the history that I understand the archive fashion. So I actually had to like educate them. In this present day, they don't know or understand what it was the history of things like just the whole culture. Fashion influencers were different back then. How people following is different now. Like there's just the next person and the next person and people making, getting popular off like reels and, it just copy paste, copy, paste, copy, paste, copy, paste.

It was more authentic back then. And I think that's the memory and stuff I try to hold on to. Like the people in the culture hanging out in Soho, and Lower East Side, and in the city and the fashion community. During those years, all those people in that community became very big very popular, went on to do great things and like became like legends. We're not seeing that now. We're not seeing that. People in today's fashion community, we're just not seeing that influencers. It was more real. There were more, I don't know how to put it, I feel like, I mean, I can be wrong, but I feel like there was more communally there. I don't know when we'll see another one of those years. I don't know, like 40 years from now, there's still people talking about those years of Influence. It's more like, where everything stems from, like now everything stems from those years, almost.

Creating is so important to me because 2014, 2016, people were truly creating. And the more, the more creative it is, the more different it is, the more likely you have an influence on the world. I really do miss it.