My name is Waraire Boswell.
I'm a designer.
You're at my offices in downtown Los Angeles.
I've been commissioned by 1800 Tequila to create a refined ensemble
from raw pieces
that I'm sourcing from all over the city.
It's for a red carpet event.
There's going to be lights,
a bunch of people
It's very hot.
And the heat will be omnipresent.
So what's important is that what's created is breathable.
I wish I could you who it's for.
He's a professional basketball player and a rising star.
I am under a very strict timeline.
I have two and a half weeks to make it come together.
I come from a family that's rich in love, not necessarily finance.
It was like, "You're out of college.
You're an adult, you got to figure it out."
So with the help of family and friends, pretty much just called out to the universe and was,
like, "I want to make clothes."
I wanted to completely sustain my lifestyle and it's trajectory.
Here we are.
I've been blessed to have a really diverse spectrum of clientele; LeBron James,
Ellen DeGeneres.
Traditionally, at these types of events, people are wearing suits.
We're going to something different, something that is more applicable to his personality
and is apropos for the weather.
Make a left right here.
Go down, right at 18th Street, make a left.
We're on our way to one of my resources.
Jack has a bunch of military surplus from all different decades, all different countries.
So what are you looking for?
I'm looking for some fabric that you had at the Rose Bowl.
The Belgian Congo, yeah.
Yeah.
How many are you looking for?
As much as you can...oh, wow!
I mean, we have enough.
That's what we do.
These are the Belgian Congo cammo.
Perfect!
The thing that I found so unique about the camouflage is that it's different from, like,
the camouflage that you see here in the U.S.
You could put it in a frame and it could be a piece of art.
This pattern is, basically, from the '50s, definitely history.
Plenty of it.
Incredible.
These are...they're battle fatigues.
So they're very thick.
I'm going to have to silicon wash them first and, hopefully, that'll loosen them up.
I've put a silicon wash on it and that didn't give it the softness that I need.
That doesn't work, we're going to have to do a stone wash.
And then from there, it's starting to come around, finally, and be the type of flowy
material I need it to be.
So, pretty much what I want you to be is a sexy motherf****er
I mean, I think that come natural for you, right?
I think so.
Oh, that's the one.
That's great.
It really looks good.
I think Los Angeles is having it's moment.
There's so many creative things here and so many creative people.
You can find inspiration anywhere, but for me, it's the inspiration.
I haven't found the fabric that I'm going to use for the shirt.
The blackout curtain, it has just an amazing drape.
The color contrast, yeah, yeah.
It was all about that.
I see the world from an artist's point of view.
I'm always looking for the beauty in something and what's beautiful about the cupro is that
it feels like a silky material because of the way it's processed.
It comes from the outer lining of the seed of cotton, gives it a very fine hand and in
giving it a very find hand, it has a very fantastic drape.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, man.
I really, really appreciate it.
Initially, with the shirt, it was going to be long sleeve, but long sleeves really don't
make sense because it'll be 95 to 105 degrees on the red carpet.
So it went from a long sleeve to a short sleeve and, ultimately, rested on no sleeves.
I now hand this off to my team, we cut it and construct it.
For it to crystalize that this is specifically made for you, I want the client to feel like
somebody receiving a billion dollar check
that's empowered.
I'm having a bit of a creative situation I'm dealing with here.
I only have one week left now.
I have one more piece to make, which is the coat.
I think this may be the hardest fabric for me to find.
Most people who do what I do, the have great archives.
When I go to flea markets, if I see anything that, like, I can gain motivation from,
I'll pick it up and it usually ends up in one of these boxes of stuff.
This Parisian raincoat, double breasted, heat sealed.
And what happens is whenever projects, such as this, come along, I can then say, "I think
I have something that I may be actually able to use for an outfit."
I found this at a thrift shop.
It had these numbers on it.
Like, you know when a parachute inflates, it has the numbers one, two, three, four,
five, all the way around, and it said, you know, "NASA Space Program" on it.
I was just like, "This is at a secondhand shop?"
Where do parachutes go to die?
Like, I never thought about that?
It has an amazing breathability because it's a parachute.
So, naturally, it has to breathe.
So this is perfect.
The robe is one thing.
Shaw lapel, all black, has the belt.
So what I'm going to have to do this is I'm going to have to take it apart and, then,
after I take it apart, I'm going to dye each one of these panels.
It is my hope that this thing doesn't disintegrate, that it stays together
and it just takes the color.
The people designed that parachute, I guarantee you had no idea that some 60 years later,
it would be used on a red carpet.
In finding materials, there's no place that I won't look
because you never know when you're going to find something,
at a junkyard if need be, at a secondhand store.
It's great to find beauty in unexpected places.
Those little things add a world of value to every single piece.
To take something that is raw
and then refine it into something that somebody would wear,
there's no better feeling.