Hi my name is Louis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

What got you into or being interested into the fashion world?

Well, it was this new music that was coming out of the Bronx right around 1982, 83, it was called, you know, rap music and it made its way into

Queens where I lived. And his music was amazing, it was fascinating. And before that

I would listen to music, you know, great people like of course, you know, rest in peace David Bowie and

and Rolling Stones and Donna Summer, Stevie Wonder, Barry White. But all these people had this beautiful way of singing, they had this

orchestra and everything else, and they touched on some of the political issues in the world,

but this music that was coming out of the Bronx, named Rap, Rap was kind of like our version of Twitter today, I always say.

It was like a disruptive technology because I started to hear about other kids, their hopes and their dreams their aspirations are plight so the

neighborhood things that I wouldn't be able to see on the news and they were putting

it in a rhythmic form and it was starting to educate us and it came with a way not only to listen to music but a way to walk, talk, and even dress.

And you felt like you were part of this society if you wore your Adidas with fat laces on or you knew how to breakdance and and that's where I sort of find my identity as a young man.

So that's really where fashion started. I wouldn't know until probably about another 10 years 15 years that maybe we should all do something that we love.

I tried everything else but I never thought about fashion. It's kind of like you know you bust your

butt to go and work and make a living and then you go out and on the weekends you kind of snowboard and do all stuff like that but you never thought

about busting your butt.

Snowboarding snowboarding or yeah or snowboarding and making money.

So how old were you when you sold your first article of clothing?

It was 1989 Good Friday, 3 o'clock in the afternoon, 37 degrees outside.

I still outside the Coliseum Mall in 1989, so I was 20 years old. Wow, okay. Yeah was 20 years old.

Wow, okay.

Yeah.

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