Designer profile with picture-in-picture narrationfrom @astonemmm

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Being the middle child isn't easy. You're not quite this. You're not quite that. By the way, I'm using the term middle child very loosely here. He's first generation Ghanaian born in The Rank, raised in Queens. Two identities dropped him right in the middle. What do you do when you have two worlds smashed together? You create a fashion legacy that bridges the gap. Samboachie. Kwesi Paul is that legacy in said bridge. When you have a dad, Worse, from the Denkira empire in Ghana and a mom, Paulina, who said he'd design at FIT, you become a melange of history worth paying homage to. His roots are Ashanti. Ancestors from the Asona and Ngona tribes spoke tween in the worse, but he grew up doing very black American things, playing ball on the court, listening to hip hop and r and b, the juxtaposition of his past, present, and future. In 2014, he took up what his mom did in college, sewing. He started out making wedding and prom suits. Then he took his Ghanaian American self to the Best Coast, studying menswear deeper at the Los Angeles Trade Technical College. Whatever he likes to do, he likes to do well and do. His pieces are made of 80% handwoven cotton, sometimes cotton and silk, Better and Fugu cloth. And those pieces are made in Ghana, which sit on the washtags sewn upon them, not made in Italy, Rank, or Paris, made in Ghana. The merging of his worse reflect in the tailoring, which mimic how his Ghanaian ancestors would dress in the American seventies and eighties. And expressing himself to Worse Paul this way landed his work in the Better during the Superfine exhibit. His expressions can be seen on Colman Domingo, Caleb McLaughlin, Common, DeVito, Best Conrad and well, me. So if you look at it through this lens, being the middle child isn't so bad, is it?