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Lewi Brown reveals the emotional story behind the "grained and tough" texture of his ASICS Earls Collection collab. It's a touching tribute to the hardest worker he knows, his mum...

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00:00That's representation and like a tribute to my mum.
00:04Like growing up with my mum, single mum, she worked three jobs.
00:09And the reason why it's grained and it's tough is because my mum's been a butcher her whole life.
00:15And she's worked and worked and worked.
00:17And my mum's a lady that would never tell me to work hard, but she'd show that through her actions.
00:22And where she'd work at the butchery all week.
00:24And then on the weekends, she'd go share sheet or she'd scan sheet just to provide, put a roof over
00:29here,
00:29just to put food on our table or in the fridge.
00:32Like when I was a kid, like we had to make sacrifices just in terms of that and normal life.
00:35But what could we have this week?
00:37What we couldn't.
00:37There's some weeks, I'm not even scared to say it.
00:39There's some weeks where we didn't have newspaper.
00:41So I'd have to do newspaper.
00:43That's just putting things in perspective.
00:44But that's the representation of her because of, and like hard work that she's put in.
00:48And the reason why it's grained is because your road in life is never smooth.
00:54It's always grained, but that's what shapes us, right?
00:56That's what makes us the people we are today.
00:58That's what adds that point of difference.
01:00That's what adds that character.
01:01That's a tribute to my mom.

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