Hi, I'm Ali Jackson Jolly.

I'm here with Brandon Blackwood.

He is a celebrity designer.

He is also the founder of Brandon Blackwood, New York brand.

And Brandon, you also really catapulted yourself to become a household name following George Floyd's murder

when your end systemic racism bag went viral so first of all welcome and thanks

for being here with us thank you thank I'm really excited it's always fun being with

the Forbes fam well so before we get into that viral moment, I have heard you say that you started this

journey to become a household name in luxury bags with seed money of somewhere around $7,000.

I have to hear it, like, tell us about this journey.

How did you start with that, what feels like no money

and make it to where you are now?

Yeah, so it's so crazy because I haven't mentioned that that many times.

So, okay, you're doing your research.

But basically when I started, I was, I just recently graduated.

I was working at Crossroad Trading. Do you know what that is?

Yeah.

So I was working there, shout to Crossroads.

While I was there, I just recently graduated.

So my mom asked me, like, what did I want for graduation?

And I was like, I just want cash.

Like, I don't want a present.

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