Fashion Barber is far from running out of ideas for fashion statements. Known for boasting bright colours, his outfits bedecked with random
accessories from teddy bears to Scotch-Brite cleaning pads and dangling shoes,
'Jamaica's most stylish barber' said he is eager to create more unique looks going into 2020.
"I see Jamaican fashion going a far way, there's no stopping for Jamaican fashion because you can pop style any way you want. You see, I not only think outside the box ... I come out the box and wear the box," the St Thomas-born fashionista said.
"Fashion can't end. There are too many styles and things to be recycled. 'Cause, at the end of the day, that is what we are doing. We are recycling different styles, finding new ways to look fashionable; new ways to look clean and pop style."
Born Sulliman Brown, Fashion Barber was the first to win the title 'Kingston's Most Stylish Male' for the 2017 in the Campari Pop Style series. Since then, he has gone on to become one of the faces of Campari Pop Style, a series that rewards the boldest fashionistas in Jamaica.
"When I first fell in love with fashion I was a youth. Fun day was coming up at school and I thought to myself, something going [to] have to pop now. That day I just wore a scandal bag. I put on a pair of pants and put the scandal bag over the merina. In those days, the pants were what we called a 'boot-cut,'" he recalled.
Fashion Barber believes there are no rules to fashion: "Fashion to me means anything goes. As long as it's clean, and it looks good to me, it's a go."
A major source of inspiration for the style icon are the fashion eras ranging from the '60s to the '80s. Fashion Barber describes the common aesthetics of the times as a true 'statement', saying they were bold and creative without being all the way androgynous. He also makes it clear that he tries never to draw much inspiration from any person or era.
"I'm not trying to be a follower, I'm trying to be a leader. So when you see me in my ackee trash and things like that, I set those trends over the years. Sometimes you will see people going out of the box with those looks, those are things I did years and years before," he said.
