ONE ON ONE WITH FLOOKEY JONES, MR MELLOWS

A quote goes, “Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.” We catch up with Mellows Nation founder Flookey Jones to share his journey into fashion.

Tell us briefly about Mellows Nation

Mellows nation it is a clothing brand but mellows means someone who is peaceful and calm in mind loving and caring Soo we bring peace love and togetherness in the nation.

How did the Idea come about?

Okay mellows was my idea back in 2016. I came up with the name and I shared my idea with my best friend. When I started it I wanted to be like Taylor gang by wiz khalifa. ‘Cause am a rapper, I needed a gang to help push my music so we started calling ourselves mellows gang. We started going out to events together eventually we were four in the gang propeey, Haward, Flemsy then I Flookey jones and people started noticing us.

What type of clads do you deal with?

Types of clads okay we deal with varieties of outfits both gents and ladies we have tracksuits hoodies t-shirts capes etc…We also dress models of fashion case events.

Where do you draw your inspiration?

My inspiration comes from mainly Kanye West, chrisbrown, Rick Ross, Drake, Diddy; these are the guys I look upto they are both rappers just like me and they have brands, So they inspired me to start one when I look at Kanye West Yeezy shoes he started it jus like a joke now he is making over 150million on his brand and that’s what I envision for as the brand founder of Mellowsclothing. I want to walk through city, the streets and see everyone having my label on them. As mellows we gotta make it coz we have no option.

How can one become a brand ambassador of Mellows Nation?

For one to become an ambassador of the brand, we require someone who has a bachelor degree in international relations or politics and history or sales and marketing; someone who is able to create audience, to engage and build alot of customers. Someone with professionalism, and who is able to talk positively about the brand. Also, he should have Instagram followers of at least minimum 20k followers.

What are the challenges that you face?

The only challenge we face is inadequate materials for the clothes. We have inadequate designers on the brand also fake imitation of our clothes that’s reduce our sales.

What’s the future of your brand?

We envision to be the top best selling brands in Africa and in the world. We want to dress Kenya and Kenya to dress the world ⚡

What’s your advice to any youth out here who’d wish to start a clothing brand?

My advice to any youth who wants to start a brand is first to believe in himself or herself, create a team that believes in you and you believe in them. No matter what, keep pushing, it’s never easy, have a vision and motive that pushes you everyday and put God first in everything.