I think about this all the time like why me kind of feeling like how did I do it
but I think I just found the perfect balance between school and fashion kind
of just balanced it perfectly like used all my time properly like didn't waste
any time I'm Leo Mandella I'm from Warwick and I'm 15
it's kind of crazy at school because they obviously like any school there's a uniform policy
well in England anyway so for me I try and like just bring my style into it
as much as I can like as far as I can get it and that I either be like by my
shoes like supreme 98s or like a badge like a teacher made and then gave to me
a supreme learning a badge or even just a bag like just doing it as much as
I can because obviously I can't get away with the other stuff I work cause it's
like bright-colored or like not uniform so as much as I can like as far as I can
get I'll go but yeah I just try and like pimp it my kind of way as much as I can
until they say you have to take off
it's really small like it's a really small space but I've learned to like
work with it the desk is there my chair playstation
for when I'm like bored at home and then straight next to it it's just the
clothes I guess but this isn't all of them this is just like the ones that I
wear the most because I have like so many I have to keep them all dotted
around the house and because my room so small they like overload like onto this
side of my thing like all my hoodies and stuff and then obviously like you can't
ignore the huge amount of shoes up here which isn't like a lot more to some
people but it looks like so many because they were in such a small space and it
was like actually becoming impossible to like put them around because they used
to be like up there and stuff so I had to like find something to do it's just
like my little space basically which I've come back to and I'm like traveling
or whatever but yeah it's pretty much my entire room there's not much to show because of
how tiny it is
when I was getting into it there was nothing like everyone was kind
of dressing the same and it was more about like dressing to fit in there than
dressing because you want to dress how you want to dress
it's mostly my mate Dan who takes most of the photos I'm gonna try find one
that my mum took because when I'm at home like she'll take the odd one this
is one that my mum took this is like this like one of my favorites as well
which is fire to me cuz this came from my mum normally I'll like leave the
camera and I'll put it in the air and just tell her to like take my spot but
now she's actually getting better like she's actually doing it now without
without me
it started off I used to have like the supreme long sleeve it had
like the flags on it the worldwide one I think is called and I sold that and then
I bought something online I think it was like did a navy warm up tracksuit I just
started like reselling and then before I knew like I had some money to like put
into clothes I don't knock anyone's hustle like how they're getting money
and I think that's what people need to start doing like realizing that people
have to do different things because some people aren't born into it or whatever
and I think that's why people hate because if you can't do it all you don't
know what the access to do it or the time to do it you're kind of like damn
like I'm missing out on like even up to like a grand each week like a thousand
pounds even more just cuz you can't get there so I can see why people are salty
but at the end of the day it's like 2018 people just like
appreciate hustle or whatever and just do what they have to do
Hate it's such a big
thing like everywhere like even on like HYPEBEAST any platform ever there's going
to be haters to me like at the start obviously it was something that did
affect me because it is quite some of the stuff people say but as I've like
developed I've realized that hate is just like weak and it doesn't actually
affect me anymore for me it's just more about like ignoring them and let them
have their fun but not getting fed you know I mean for me two years ago would
never expect that I'd be like on a tube station on a billboard on a bus wrapped
that's going like straight through Oxford Circus and like central London
this is crazy as well this is even more crazy oh my god
i gotta take a flick of this
even if you don't like me you can at least use this as a way of like just saying I
can do it as well when ever you're watching this and you're thinking
that ah I'll never be able to get there like that's what I thought like two
years ago and now I'm actually doing it and it sounds cringy but it actually is
like true and that's the craziest thing
I know it's easy to say for me but literally just like be yourself and like
whatever people say you just guys have to ignore even if they're haters even if
they're your best mate if you like it then you like it inside your head
just let yourself kind of run with it because eventually if you're so
passionate about something you're gonna make it