We were lucky to catch up with Alexander Lewis recently and have shared our conversation below.
Alexander, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Before we get into specifics, let’s talk about success more generally. What do you think it takes to be successful?
I think it’s take a lot to be successful. Day in and out night in and out you have to make a way for yourself an make a name for yourself in what ever it is you do or the career you choose. Nothing happens overnight success doesn’t happen overnight, it takes basically everything to be successful, sacrificing time is one of the main things. Making time to get to where you want to be in life and making those extra moves to make things happen for yourself and a lot of that comes with sacrificing your time, energy, surroundings, etc. i think to be successful you also got to believe in yourself have faith in yourself and what’s to come for you. If you don’t believe in yourself you will never be as successful as you want to be. It starts with believing in yourself.
Alexander, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
My name is Alexander but I prefer to be called Alex. I have my own clothing line/brand in the making as we are building every step of the way and reaching new heights as we continue to build our brand throughout each process. My brand pretty much only provides clothing wear, streetwear for now. Accessories have been in the mix when it comes to certain drops in the past but for now we keep the main things, the main things. As I continue to learn and grow with my brand I will look to explore and branch off into other creative ways to make this brand grow and stand out in the way I vision it to be. I’d say what separates myself from others is the passion I have for what I’ve created. My passion for this is unexplainable to be honest. It’s just something I’ve grown to love and working with clothes. Also would have to be I keep it going no matter what. A lot of things happen in life at my age where you tend to forget the main goals and what you’ve set yourself out to do because of certain situations or hiccups that come along the way but what sets myself apart from others is that I keep going. If you want to reach the goals you have set out for yourself in life you have to keep going no matter what and have faith that everything will be alright at the end of the day. I am proud of the fact that minus the hiccups that have came with growing a brand is that we still reach new heights each time we present new ideas or products to this brand. Although I have plans in the future to restructure when it comes to a brand as I learn more and more about the business side of things I am still proud of the way I am handling this brand with the help from a close friend/business partner where he too has helped with growing this brand. As well as gaining support not just from around my area or where I’m from but when ever I am out or traveling it’s always a sign of love shown to the brand I’ve created and I will always be proud of that. What people should know about my brand is the main thing – we are still a small brand that’s growing. We have a lot of content and support along the way and we have only gained more since I have started working with clothing but we are still a growing brand and each year I plan to continue to grow and learn about everything that surrounds clothing, fashion and business side of everything. We are currently working on putting out a new collection for this year (2023) as we are winding down finishing the finals bits and pieces of this collection. We hope to release this collection by the end of the summer. It’s been almost two years since we have dropped a full collection so we are excited to have everyone following see what we have in store. After this collection we will be working on a new project while still releasing small items in between and also working more on the fitness side of things as well but for now we are focused on finishing up the collection set to drop real soon.
How do you keep your team’s morale high?
The only advice I would have for this would be if you want your team to work everyone has to be all in. Everyone has to have the same vision, passionate about the same things. If that doesn’t work then it will be impossible to grow a brand or a business with your team. If those things work and everyone is all in, you will see more success in managing a team and building your business.
How did you build your audience on social media?
When I had the idea in mind that I wanted to start a brand I went on the social media site I know was used the most and continue to post around the information surrounding the brand and products that were being sold right away, and as I did that I have had a bunch of support from family, friends, associates even where they have spread the word whether it’s on social media or around different cities, I’ve also have grown my social media base just by staying consistent with working on my brand and building it to new heights.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://patienceisvirtue.com/password
- Instagram: alex7lewis
- Facebook: Alex Lewis
- Twitter: alex7lewis
Image Credits
Michael Nzungize- main photographer for brand.