I am a Birmingham based designer and I have lived here all my life although I spend 90% of my time in other cities/countries. My life has been a roller-coaster from a very young age, for good and bad reasons! I soon realized that I was unlike anyone I knew at the time and still to this day I find it rare that i meet anybody that has the same realness and upfront character that I see myself to have with unquestionable loyalty,intolerance and fearlessness to life! I have been though a lot in my years and I have sculpted myself on all the good traits I saw in others while growing up and also learned from all the bad that I have experienced/witnessed. I am no angel and I have done terrible things in my life showing no remorse for 99% of them because in life you have to stick to the rules you set for yourself an for others with no compromise! You knew the risks when you took the job its as simple as that! The difference in my life is that, THERE ARE NO RULES!

Basically everything that I have done good or bad has had a reason behind it, a reason that I believed in and a reason which to me condoned my actions and still does,and will till the day that my box goes into the hole!

I have been interested in fashion all of my life but started to make 1’offs for myself about 4 years ago. It wasn’t until I met a women who is an amazing artist and now a close friend of mine around 2 years ago that a creative side of me was brought out and I have never looked back since with it now turning into my full time job.

Since becoming involved in the fashion scene many other things have started spiraling off from this and for the past year i have started doin alot of modeling work which i love, no two shoots are ever the same an i get to meet and work with amazing people and i am constantly surrounded by beautiful people. ( women )

I love art and I am in ore of certain artists/designers/photographers/photography which i am constantly inspired by but my real passions are MMA and my bikes even thought in the past couple of years I have rarely had time to do any of these things due to traveling and other commitments. I live hard and fast with no regrets, life’s to short to worry and ponder on things, just do it, and if it don’t work then do it again and again until it does work. never let anything or anybody stand in the way of you getting what you want out of life, you are entitled to as much as anybody else is so fuck’em! You cannot lose what you never had to begin with so you win either way……….go for it!

In growing up with the mindset that I have had and the care free personality that I have developed it has enabled me to do whatever I want whenever I want with whoever i want or to whoever i want including things like changing my name/appearance etc etc. I have been since a child looking upto and idolizing my dad and always knew that I would follow in his footsteps and becoming heavily tattooed, I never really thought that it would go this far but I live my life with NO LIMITS and I act first then think later, so when I look in the mirror I am not at all surprised at what I see and also know that my image will never be the same for more than a few months at a time, whether it be through my constantly changing clothing styles or adding/removing tattoos etc. I am constantly evolving never pretending and I am totally comfortable in my own skin!

I live with multiple personality disorder and have done since a child,it is a fucking nightmare at times and has destroyed many good things/people that have been in my life and my uncontrollable behavior has landed me in the shit more than a few times, but it also gives me the versatility to mix comfortably in completely different circles wherever in the world I might be with whoever i might be with and if it wasn’t for this condition I doubt I would have got to where I am in my life today and also if it wasn’t for how my life has turned out I wouldn’t be writing this little story to you now!

Jay Read.