Kemmy Smith

I met Kemmy when he was my barber at a shop called Ascension. He wasn't as talkative as the other guys but he would pipe in with a sharp verbal jab periodically to get us laughing. Then I later found out he was a NSCAD student and he told me about his interest in customizing sneakers. I'm not a sneaker head so I didn't feel equipped to offer much feedback on his work but I loved the idea. Fast forward to last year, I wanted to make a statement with my shoes for Atlantic Fashion Week so I asked Kemmy to go nuts and surprise me. In this episode we talked about: Where he's from, the shoe design process, how he collects payments, how he promotes his business, the shoes I commissioned him to design, how his time at NSCAD prepared him for his creative career.