00:01We're not saying that we feel like our city is better than any other city, but that's how we feel.
00:07We're both born and raised here in New York.
00:09I think the love affair for us is this is our home, this is our city, and we take so
00:13much pride in that.
00:15There's an opportunity in every single corner to be great or to do something that you want to do.
00:20If you have determination and the hustle and the street smarts, you can figure it out.
00:27You know, when we started this company, it was just Dow and I not knowing much.
00:30We were in a dusty warehouse in Queens, packing clothes up and having t-shirts around our face because it
00:37was really nasty.
00:38And then learning how to pick and pack and ship and invoice. We learned everything on the back end really
00:43fast.
00:43There was no strategy, there was no plan. We kept pushing forward and I think that that's been the spirit
00:48of where we are now.
00:50I think we're in this box that nobody really knows where to put us in.
00:55That's new to people, right? So people can either call us streetwear, some people call us high fashion, but we
00:59take street influence.
01:01But it really isn't any of those things. I think it's really just our upbringing and the fact that everything
01:06is just intertwined.
01:08I think that the hard part isn't necessarily getting there, the hard part is probably staying there.
01:13The end goal is to build this long, sort of lasting career that you can look back on.
01:19But while you're in it, you can't say that you made it because you haven't really made it.
01:23We don't feel like we've made anything yet. I think we still are learning how to have that viable business
01:28and, you know, build a foundation that we could actually stand on and build from.
01:31Because everything moves so fast here. In fashion, it could be in one day and out the next.
01:36So I think we just want to make sure that we're here for a very long time.
