Firestyle Magazine Issue 1 - Autumn 2015 | Page 9

Tomiwa, what are your aspirations for the future? “I would love to balance and develop my role as both a firefighter and designer as I have been doing. Ideally, I would like to produce a niche brand as my ideas are very particular and quirky. I like to work with a traditional base and then put my spin on them. Fundamentally, my focus is that I would like to make an aesthetically grounded product based on quality” Finally Tomiwa, how did you come up with the name ’Brother’? “My ’Brother’ collection was inspired from my link to the fire brigade ethic... it is like a band of brothers and sisters.” Firestyle would like to thank Tomiwa for his help with this article and we wish him all the best for the future! Photography: Egle Aravici and John McGrath. Collaborators on project: Rozanna Walecki and Emily Goodaker 09