TV: How would you describe your brand, and who you are designing for?

DB: I would say we make fantastical denim with a Caribbean twist.

TV: I was waiting to hear that, because all of your imagery is very rooted in Haitian culture.

DB: I design for people with a youthful spirit, that want to be bold in their expression and life. Because when you wear my pieces, I don’t think you’re trying to be settled; no, I think you want to be seen. I think you want to enter a room and command attention.

And I think I make conversation starters. I make things that, when you wear it, people want to talk to you. They want to be like, “What’s up? How’d you get it? Tell me all about it.” It’s very playful, very bold, very big. Definitely not minimal, definitely not. Simple.

TV: Do you have a dream collab?

DB: There’s so many! Studio Museum in Harlem. I want to be the first designer to show there. That would be amazing. I want to take over the space for a day or a week. I wanna do a fashion show there, and I want it to feel like how people felt when they were watching Kerby [Jean-Raymond of Pyer Moss] do that show with the choir.

TV: What are some things you have learned and unlearned about having a brand?

DB: All brands will die one day, and you have to be okay with that. The brands I’ve looked up to have come and gone, and that’s just how fashion works. I think the sooner you realize that as an emerging designer, and as a founder, it puts less pressure on us to create this thing that is everlasting and perfect.

I know my brand was just birthed the other day, and it’s so, so soon, [but] we’re already speaking about the death of it. It’s something I think about a lot, you know? Because the brands I look up to aren’t around. And I’m like, “Okay, they had their moments. They had their heydays.” They made the money, and then, you know, that was the time. Everything, everything, must come to an end.

TV: Since you’re aware of your mortality in the industry, how do you see yourself evolving in the industry? Do you have other goals for yourself that you’d want to turn to? Goals for yourself or for future brands?

DB: I think part of the reason I’m not afraid of my mortality is because I never saw myself as just the fashion designer, and I never was. I always like to reiterate that I come from the art world. And an artist’s career doesn’t end. The designer’s career doesn’t end; their brand might end, but they still go on to do amazing things.

TV: How will you translate that energy into your merch designs?

DB: Sometimes people just want something they can digest. They just want something that’s the equivalent of, like, a nice vanilla ice cream on a hot day.