Want even more from Salehe? Listen to the extended interview on our podcast. Twice the runtime, twice the insights, twice the inspiration: anchor.fm/ideageneration/episodes/How-Salehe-Bembury-Went-from-Payless-to-Versace-to-Birthing-His-Own-Brand--IDEA-GENERATION-S2-E3-e1n8pg4
Salehe has a good soul and an eye for marrying the unknown with usable, wearable, art. He used to visit my Marthas Vineyard pop-up shop and when I learned we both had wooden briefcases, it was bruv at first sight. He juggles and I do magic tricks, too. I think in our past lives we were a traveling act. Rooting for Salehe from Boston and looking forward to seeing what he creates next!
So inspiring for someone like me. He went from unemployment to flying out to Milan with 2 chainz to a fashion show where everyone was wearing his shoes. So amazing.
Met Salehe while running my brand's booth at the Market Pop-Up. As a black man in the industry, what he's done for the next generation of POC designers and entrepreneurs is hard to even quantify with words. Truly an honor to watch this video and hear even deeper insights to his processes and progression. Thanks for even spending a little bit of time talking with me fam. I know Anwar and them had you lifted as hell lol.
I’ve been following Salehe for a couple of months on instagram, and how this man is approaching his craft and tryin to make sure it’s more human and close to our lifestyles these days is just so inspiring. And knowing about his whole process in here is quite interesting and you can just learn persistence and know how to keep pushing from looking at this guy’s career milestones 🔥❤️
One of my favorite episodes. So much insight into Salehe’s process that we can learn from and apply. Crazy to think of the people working with Kanye over the last several years have all grown on to create their own successful brands. The Versace sneaker was great - but it took him becoming his own brand, launching Spunge and working with NB and releasing those crocs for me to notice his influence.
This channel def does it all for me. I remember after my 2nd ACL injury as a college basketball player, I listened to Salehe’s episode on Hypebeast radio with Jeff Staple & it changed my life as I began my journey as a designer. Thank you guys for this🙏🏾
This is a phenomenal interview. Extremely insightful and helpful. He stated that he learned to communicate and network through his father, which eventually seems to end up being his way of shining, not only networking through LinkedIn, but also the fact that he admits that he had media written about him while his peers didn't, most likely because of his ability to connect with others. Hope the best for this man's future.
I love Salehe. One of my favorite designers. His Crocs are my favorite shoes period. I love collecting his work and he is an amazing designer and an inspiration.
His designs are instigating a desire to experience the fresh and different elements of the world… to be a part of a greater picture. Intentional and inspiring journey to the present creating objects that are asking us to experience more.
Wow! I wondered why I liked the look of the CROCS. Wasn’t sold into the hype or even want to cash into it bc of that but the Cole Haan X Lunargrand was a great moment in sneakerhead work life. Many of us were heading into or progressing in business at that time and it’s the true predecessor of the classic casual sneaker that’s the staple of many outfits today.
Man, this is super inspiring. Been in that design world of getting let go, just to grind and hustle to find the next gig. Hitting up random people on LinkedIn and sometimes it pops off.
Hearing about Salehe's climb is inspiring. I like to learn about the ins and outs of fashion in my freetime and its nice to put a face with the creation and design. I appreciate how open Salahe was here. I know about that unemployment life so to go from that to Versace is just beyond exciting. Fantastic interview.
These designers look no different then homeless people & are considered stylish. Just go in your closet grab random un matching shit all different colors look messy & dirty and any body can be a top designer now!
Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His Light is as a niche and within it a lamp: the lamp is in a glass, the glass as it were a star Durriyyun, lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil would almost glow forth, though no fire touched it. The exact translation of the saying is, “I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.
@@jelanijoseph1131 Think Microsoft PowerPoint. A deck is a visual presentation of a product or service, where you lay out every aspect you can think of for the project. You use it to pitch to person(s) or an entity, so you want to convey what you're thinking, for them. You want to leave no stone unturned. If he's doing shoes he's probably going to have pages or slides with different designs, statistics from his audience or other shoes he's created, market trends, textures/materials, pricing, milestones, timeline from conception to realization etc etc etc. I know nothing of the shoe industry so those are just things i'm assuming would be covered but you get the point. You can have a deck to pitch a tv show, a restaurant, you name it. The point would be to get investors, distributors, producers, team members, whatever one is looking for.
I'm not really a sneaker head but this was mad insightful and inspiring respect to Salehe... The production on this video is fire too.. and the music... *checks credits... "A-Trak"... that's some Yeezy inception shiii right there. 👌👌👌I once went to a Kanye concert in Cape Town mainly to check A-Trak and his half-time show.. lol
Long story short, be prepared to become expendable and make sure to have a good investment plan. Sheesh. How u go from designing at yeezy to unemployment in three months or whatever? That aint cool.
The amazing value of priviledged in having cross-generational influences. I love these types of stories. Picking up from your parents but in a different way.
Want even more from Salehe? Listen to the extended interview on our podcast. Twice the runtime, twice the insights, twice the inspiration: anchor.fm/ideageneration/episodes/How-Salehe-Bembury-Went-from-Payless-to-Versace-to-Birthing-His-Own-Brand--IDEA-GENERATION-S2-E3-e1n8pg4
Going to have to check this out. Personally, I prefer visuals, but i'm curious to know what else was discussed.
Bro the shoes he designed are fucking badass. Chain reaction sneaker .
Grateful for the vision, thank you
Salehe has a good soul and an eye for marrying the unknown with usable, wearable, art. He used to visit my Marthas Vineyard pop-up shop and when I learned we both had wooden briefcases, it was bruv at first sight. He juggles and I do magic tricks, too. I think in our past lives we were a traveling act. Rooting for Salehe from Boston and looking forward to seeing what he creates next!
wow love this. thank you for sharing your story and for watching 💡💡
I knew I wasn't the only one, when I go anywhere with a wooden attache it's over, they know you mean business but in a completely different mannerism
You gotta get Johnny Cupcakes on your show!!
This is a dope story. Glad you guys made this happen.
More to come!
I love seeing Salehe progression over the years. He is one of my favourite designers to this date.
Thanks for this inspo, we must keep designing!
So inspiring for someone like me. He went from unemployment to flying out to Milan with 2 chainz to a fashion show where everyone was wearing his shoes. So amazing.
(almost} Everything is possible, don't give up what you love.
Met Salehe while running my brand's booth at the Market Pop-Up. As a black man in the industry, what he's done for the next generation of POC designers and entrepreneurs is hard to even quantify with words. Truly an honor to watch this video and hear even deeper insights to his processes and progression.
Thanks for even spending a little bit of time talking with me fam. I know Anwar and them had you lifted as hell lol.
thank you 💡💡💡
Never knew Salehe was part of Greats.. Definitely sent me back in time there. Legendary stuff from NCB as per usual..
I’ve been following Salehe for a couple of months on instagram, and how this man is approaching his craft and tryin to make sure it’s more human and close to our lifestyles these days is just so inspiring. And knowing about his whole process in here is quite interesting and you can just learn persistence and know how to keep pushing from looking at this guy’s career milestones 🔥❤️
Daaaaawwwwggg I’m about to go Super saiyan with my LinkedIn 😤…can’t do any more instant ramen.
get after it!
Go crazy
One of my favorite episodes. So much insight into Salehe’s process that we can learn from and apply. Crazy to think of the people working with Kanye over the last several years have all grown on to create their own successful brands. The Versace sneaker was great - but it took him becoming his own brand, launching Spunge and working with NB and releasing those crocs for me to notice his influence.
My favorite Cole Haan is a pair of black nubuck cap toe boots with the lunar sole with lace hooks at the top.
Bro your channel is the find of the year for me. PLEASE keep going. Salutes from Italy.
Dame Dash doesn’t get enough credit for the influence he’s had on the culture.
I am happy he mentioned him.
This channel def does it all for me. I remember after my 2nd ACL injury as a college basketball player, I listened to Salehe’s episode on Hypebeast radio with Jeff Staple & it changed my life as I began my journey as a designer. Thank you guys for this🙏🏾
“Be a sponge.”
Great video.
Heavy Gratitude
This was awesome. Thank you.
Excellent Interview space and interaction.
Salehe seems like a huge proponent/product of Organic bootstrapping.
Brilliant Stuff for the Mind.🎇👏
This is a phenomenal interview. Extremely insightful and helpful. He stated that he learned to communicate and network through his father, which eventually seems to end up being his way of shining, not only networking through LinkedIn, but also the fact that he admits that he had media written about him while his peers didn't, most likely because of his ability to connect with others. Hope the best for this man's future.
Wow loved every minute of that interview! Very inspiring!
Would love to know where the kid who dressed up like him in 10th grade is in life currently
I just saw his Crocs the other day. They're nice af. Gotta support him. Hope he doesn't take offense to this but I think he's the new Virgil.
I love Salehe. One of my favorite designers. His Crocs are my favorite shoes period. I love collecting his work and he is an amazing designer and an inspiration.
Oh you collect. One day his collection could be worth a lot (finance).
His designs are instigating a desire to experience the fresh and different elements of the world… to be a part of a greater picture. Intentional and inspiring journey to the present creating objects that are asking us to experience more.
Great interview.
Very inspiring interview. Thanks for sharing!!!
Connection + Creativity = Changing The Game
One of the most creative designers right now from shoes to campaign what a story kept pushing and never gave up 🔥🏆
Aye man this gives me the push … let them make fun of people like Us.. we always have the last laugh 😂
Top designer, top guy, respect his story highly
Im gonna be on Idea Generation one day
Amazing episode, thank you for sharing this!
this was too good, super grateful for this
from payless to versace!
This motivated me day before yesterday and couldn't get to listen to it because I was traveling and couldn't hear the intestines of the story 🤞🏽🔥❤️
Man this guy is intelligent artist
Of course he made it, he grew up in Tribeca!!!!!!!!!!!!!! duhhhhhhhh
incredible interview. really love his journey.
LOVE SALEHE! Such a dope guy with a crazy sense of style and eye
This man came a long way. Roots are deep. Nowhere else to go but up.
🔥🔥🔥🔥 salehebembury killing the game right now crocs 🐊 new balance everything he been putting out is just heat
he's got the juice no doubt
@@IDEAGENERATIONOFFICIAL big facts man
Wow! I wondered why I liked the look of the CROCS. Wasn’t sold into the hype or even want to cash into it bc of that but the Cole Haan X Lunargrand was a great moment in sneakerhead work life. Many of us were heading into or progressing in business at that time and it’s the true predecessor of the classic casual sneaker that’s the staple of many outfits today.
This is great
thank you!
This has become on of my favorite channels on the platform. All the best to you!
thank so much. plenty more on the way
To be both left and right brained is how he has KILLED 🖤✨
Why he didn’t talk about New balance
This is the person that actually made me want to wear a croc his designs and process has made want to do bigger and better things a icon
Honestly I’d watch this but I’m give it the same energy he does his shoe drops and go take a hike and care less
Wow I appreciate this so much. Great work
This is a cool insight into the design world.
Thank you for doing this interview
"Alright this is YEZZY!?" LMAO
Great interview and questions
These interviews are incredible, you learn a lot of things, with the right people, Thanks.
This was so good! Thank you, Salehe!
best channel for inspiration period.
thank you so much 💡
What an EPIC conversation ‼️
Gratitude.
A beautiful mind for a phenomenal man. Exceptional interview.
Man, this is super inspiring. Been in that design world of getting let go, just to grind and hustle to find the next gig. Hitting up random people on LinkedIn and sometimes it pops off.
Hearing about Salehe's climb is inspiring. I like to learn about the ins and outs of fashion in my freetime and its nice to put a face with the creation and design. I appreciate how open Salahe was here. I know about that unemployment life so to go from that to Versace is just beyond exciting. Fantastic interview.
Dead ass my favorite designer lately. Keep killing shit Salehe!
Love it
On How to Build your personal brand. Thank youuu so much for this
I wondered what happened to Complex Blueprint…… so glad I found your channel. Bless…..glad you’re back, amazing content.
oooh Payless! create that resume!
Great interview and interviewer. Loving these since the Blueprint episodes. Thank you!
These designers look no different then homeless people & are considered stylish.
Just go in your closet grab random un matching shit all different colors look messy & dirty and any body can be a top designer now!
Quality over quantity my guy, your content is great💪🏿
Best content I’ve viewed in a while 🙏🏿
thank you so much
I really enjoyed this episode
Banger after Banger, keep it up
thank you!!
i fucks with salehe .. hes such an interesting human .....
Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His Light is as a niche and within it a lamp: the lamp is in a glass, the glass as it were a star Durriyyun, lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil would almost glow forth, though no fire touched it.
The exact translation of the saying is, “I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.
I wanna know more about that gap between Yeezy and Versace…. Might try the podcast and see if that gives more detail
"Decks are the road to checks." Ain't that the truth
this might be a little silly but what is decks
@@jelanijoseph1131 Think Microsoft PowerPoint. A deck is a visual presentation of a product or service, where you lay out every aspect you can think of for the project. You use it to pitch to person(s) or an entity, so you want to convey what you're thinking, for them. You want to leave no stone unturned. If he's doing shoes he's probably going to have pages or slides with different designs, statistics from his audience or other shoes he's created, market trends, textures/materials, pricing, milestones, timeline from conception to realization etc etc etc. I know nothing of the shoe industry so those are just things i'm assuming would be covered but you get the point. You can have a deck to pitch a tv show, a restaurant, you name it. The point would be to get investors, distributors, producers, team members, whatever one is looking for.
"decks are the road to checks" ... that's a bar
I love my Chain Reaction sneakers with all my heart! ❤💯⭐️
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Great video. I love these.
What’s the name of the track at the end of the video?
Lakeith brother
So inspiring!!
If you didn’t live through DD172 you will never understand it
Killed it!
what is the song around the 32 minute mark?
the alchemist: salehe brembury.
I could cry. This was so fkn dope! 🔥
I Have Three Words For this Interview INSPIRATION, INSPIRATION,INSPIRATION!
Fan of the show and the Soundtrack is High Quality, Respect A-Trak. What beat is this please? 22:12
Thank you so much for sharing! 🙏
if you're a fashion designer u can get away with wear anything
Design & Function Personified! Keep them coming Noah+Team
I'm not really a sneaker head but this was mad insightful and inspiring respect to Salehe...
The production on this video is fire too.. and the music... *checks credits... "A-Trak"... that's some Yeezy inception shiii right there. 👌👌👌I once went to a Kanye concert in Cape Town mainly to check A-Trak and his half-time show.. lol
Long story short, be prepared to become expendable and make sure to have a good investment plan. Sheesh. How u go from designing at yeezy to unemployment in three months or whatever? That aint cool.
What an AMAZING creative journey. Full of believeth and encouragement. Very inspiring
Such a fire interview dudes versatility is on max. I’d love to see him touch some max 90’s or Primeknit EQT
The amazing value of priviledged in having cross-generational influences. I love these types of stories. Picking up from your parents but in a different way.
Take a shot when you see the same B-roll. In all seriousness though, great interview, really inspiring!
This was a really good one! Yea this one was good!
thank you! thank you!!