Hey everybody Edmond van der Bijl with another episode of Once Around the Block
I'm here with the one the only Stephanie Cantizano. -Hi Stephanie how
are you? -Hi good. -Let's walk and talk. -Ok. -Let's get the hat out of the way? -Oh! -No,
I'm saying... -Oh okay. - I'm wearing such a cool hat...-Oh yeah...-Let's talk about it...
-So that's from my company my daughter and I started a company a clothing line called
Love Legislation and as I went to art school about you know a hundred years
ago I decided to create... it's a brand base...I want to create a logo, so I did an
anatomical drawing...I did all these different drawings...I filled up an entire
pad of paper and then I finally came up with something that I think matched what
we were trying to get across...Love Legislation the opposite of hate
legislation... handed off to my younger to my older daughter excuse me Sophia and
said can you make a computer graphic out of this and she said I sure can and it's
gonna be dope and she did! - Awesome -...And it's an optical illusion and we're very
very proud of it I'd say eighty-nine ninety percent of the people only see
one basic thing at first and they don't see the actual thing there's two images
right and it's always I love to look in people's eyes when they see the other
thing, the other image. -The realization happens I'm gonna do one more shot for the folks at home
with my cool hat... what color is this anyway? That one is sublime
seafoam. -Sublime...I feel fantast...I do feel sublime right now I feel dope!
So, Love Legislation and it's it's hats it's it's it's? -It's hats, it's active where I hate the
term athleisure it makes my skin crawl it's really we're trying we're
coining the term "actual wear" because it's sort of like activist wear and
activist active wear...it's very urban edgy...-Is it is it very like you can
you could do anything with it? -Yes exactly like for instance I love
clothing because it's sort of like like out it's a second skin to me I love
foreign languages too, I like things that make I feel like I can change
fit in and meet new people depending on what I wear and what languages I speak
right so like for instance these are my cool shoes...I think they're Mark
Fisher I love these shoes because they're really cute but they're fun to
walk in but I'm wearing them with with active wear pants. -...And this is for your line? -From...
my line, Love Legislation and I actually design the pants myself it's an
asymmetrical which is also I love asymmetrical things because you know no
one's perfectly symmetrical look it's it it's it's real being asymmetrical is
very real...-It's more honest...-No one is perfectly balanced. -Huh cool. -Yeah. -So it's uh and so okay so
it's it's for everyday life it's for making it to the cut so there's other
things there's tops there's bottom...-We have headbands we have snap backs we
have dad caps we have tank tops coming out unisex tank tops coming out. -And is
this all going to be an e-commerce thing sorry I interrupted...
-Yes yes it is an e-commerce thing but we're gonna try to get into boutiques
that's what we're doing now as well another cool thing is um it's as we say
it's we also call it protest wear... and what happened with the name love
legislation is that when NC hb2 happened ...a few years ago now which is
North Carolina House Bill 2 for anyone who's not familiar was the anti-trans
legislation... my daughter at the time my older daughter Sophia it's at
Columbia University she's she loves fashion but she also loves politics
she's a DC kid grew up in DC...um I love fashion and politics and had just
come off a year living in Rome where I was really juiced about my my fashion
and I said Sophia we got to do something about this I mean to me it's just so
glaringly backwards you know my my ex-husband is Dominican you know years
ago I technically I wouldn't have been a allowed to to marry him in certain
states in the United States because of the fact that you know
he's mixed race and I just thought are we going backwards again we take you
step back so we got it we have to do something that encompasses this but not
just this because it always be something ... so we talked about calling it
unicorn Lu like unicorns are these beautiful magical creatures equating
that with a trans person and then Lu like a bathroom you know in English then
we thought well that's 2 1 that's 2 once that's that one thing right we need to
make it broader right so we took hate legislation and we spun it it said love
legislation and so we came up with this brand we have it copyrighted and we're
really excited very cool yeah and I feel like you remember what Michael Jordan
said years ago sure he's he said somebody asked him Michael why don't you
take a stand on politics and he said something to the effect of well because
Republicans buy my tennis shoes too and Sophia and I just really feel that it's
time to take it stance okay um you know I'm the mom of two latina daughters yeah
and I can't the direction is the person who's heading this country is it
frightens me on words okay I'm very Pro woman feminist so many respects yes so
you're doing something about it we're doing some positive and we believe
everyone has to just take a stand now yeah if you feel if you don't do
anything you're on the wrong side right that's the way we feel anyway sure sure
that's super intense you want to keep talking about it is pretty I mean in its
it's important to but it's also like taking our love of art and design and
computer graphics right and really thinking about things
and calling attention to things you know and then putting that into clothing and
plus you're working with your daughter that's pretty cool you have a cool
relationship with your kids yeah super cool I actually um met Michelle Obama
the other really super cool she's awesome she was at this exercise class
and I had I had some hats with me because I always have hats with me yeah
and I actually was so nervous I thought I'm just gonna go up and say something
so I went up and I was you know sweaty armpits and her Secret Service sorted
through the body block but I was like I'm not gonna do anything I just I just
say mrs. Obama and I call her mrs. O ha I said you are an inspiration and I just
wish you know my daughter nicer to a woman and minority-owned company and we
would be honored if you wore one of our hats and she stopped and then the Secret
Service agent has to stop and she said thank you so much and I
literally walked away and I started to tear up the most intense things going on
there a lot of things going on there and I just think that she is the current day
Jackie Robinson she has to have such grace under so much pressure yes and
then bringing up those two little girls who aren't little girls anymore right in
the spotlight and you know who her husband is yeah I do okay okay um yeah
listen oh we talked we were saying before the blocks can go super fast it's
going pretty fast yes what's up man is there anything else you want to shout
out to throw out there yeah I also would like to say I've been thinking a lot
about being a strong woman lately yes and um you know I'm I recently gotten
separated and I've noticed I've noticed that a lot of times when women are
strong and self-possessed and have an opinion a well informed opinion because
that's always important to have a well informed a pin
and a lot of times men like to shut us down they can't deal with it and I just
want to tell all the young women out there it's not about being except about
by anyone sex you be who you are be as smart as you can be get as well educated
as you can gasps get and speak your opinion be proud of yourself
awesome that's awesome I yeah I have this thing that I usually start now
called the words of wisdom in the WoW moment but I feel like you just did it
do you want to do another one I get a netipot
if you have allergies get a neti pot I always tell people that all right we've
come around the block peace peace everybody put your plug where's the
website love legislation calm and we also have an Instagram and a facebook
business page awesome all under love legislations yes sounds good don't give
out my readin well Nate along thanks for watching everybody see you next time bye
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