Ohio native John Dean, who runs an organization with R&B singer Chris Brown, discusses how his humble beginnings in Akron led him to associate with the soulful recording artist.
In an interview with the Akron Beacon Journal, the 33-year-old designer tells the media outlet that reaching out to the “Run It” singer’s stylist in 2014 led to the 2 turning into companions in The Auracles. He most just lately created merchandise for the “Breezy Bowl XX” tour, which is celebrating Brown’s 20-year singing profession.
“Chris and I’ve a extremely shut relationship now, I’m in tune together with his design aesthetic simply naturally as a result of we’ve had a lot time collectively simply engaged on the model,” Dean stated. “I’m glad he trusted me together with his imaginative and prescient to have the ability to create clothes that represented and embodied his work.”
Whereas attending St. Vincent-St. Mary Excessive College, he discovered inspiration for trend, and in his senior 12 months, he began his personal firm, Famend.
“Once I ran my model Famend, I reached out to certainly one of Chris’ stylists as a result of I’m only a massive fan of his and I needed to get him a few of my Famend stuff,” Dean recalled. “Principally, Chris ended up sporting the stuff, and he favored it. The stylist got here again to me and stated ‘Hey, Chris would really like extra of your stuff, however can we’ve got these colours? Can we do that, that?’ after which I began making customized garments for Chris.”
That led Dean to create items for his first Brown tour, “Between the Sheets Tour,” in 2015. He went on to design merchandise for Brown’s “Underneath the Affect Tour” in 2023, “11:11 Tour” in 2024, and the latest, “Breezy Bowl XX Tour.”
“Principally, our brains had been on the identical wavelength and on the finish of the dialog, we had been like ‘we must always do one thing collectively, we must always do some artwork challenge,’ and to make an extended story brief, that artwork challenge is our model, The Auracles,” Dean stated.
The Auracles footwear was offered on the “Breezy Bowl XX” tour, and after releasing boots in 2024, the model is prepping to launch a brand new shoe on Black Friday, in addition to a brand new toy, Dean stated.
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