Our Founder, Managing Director and lead model, mentor & stylist, Kwame "Flyzel" Christian!
Flyzel's Role Models was born out of a necessity while running around being a socialite in the NYC social scene. While navigating the world of modeling, social events and education, I noticed most of young people I was meeting and socializing with were immature, unfocused and undisciplined mentally, physically and morally. Especially with the males in the social scene, it was parties, parties, parties; event hopping and open bars every.single.day! I met some great guys through the years but I saw that a lot of these men really had no direction in their careers and personal lives. They had no real guidance or moral balance, no one whom they could look up to who had a impressionable fashion style & good character and no one that they respected as a man who was also in the same fast lane whom they could relate to! While earning my bones and name on the social scene and in my daily life I've acquired the moniker "Flyzel" because I was known to be just too fashionably fly and super stylish when I stepped out of the house and it stuck! After some years in public education, I was introduced part-time into fashion and modeling by accepting a last minute position as a runway model and I liked it so much I slowly transitioned into modeling and fashion as a secondary career and Flyzel Washington was born! I already was managing a educational services company for adolescent, teenage and college-aged students so I was adept in mentoring, tutoring and educating young people in the space of education to becoming the best version of themselves. My track record speaks for itself. In 2011, I was nominated along with a handful of others as Teacher of the Year in New Jersey by Mayor Cory Booker. However, i noticed that the same need and services were needed in the world of fashion, modeling and in the party & social scene. There are so many individuals in that world that are predators, lowlifes, coldhearted and with their own personal agendas that its not even funny and this world is really unregulated with no safe guards and protections towards ones personal safety to go to and rely on. This was even more prevalent towards the young women in the lane. Those ladies that did not have any strong, moral backbone or physical protection or no firm, mental stability were the most susceptible to all kinds of unfortunate incidents and occurrences when they were in the fast, social lane. Mind you, as a educator I already had the responsibility and custodianship to look after every student that came through my classroom doors as well as those children that I was hired to mentor and tutor at my office, so needless to say, I am use to protecting those who are deemed at-risk, innocent and who are the most vulnerable. Teachers are the first line of defense while their children are not in the care, so us educators take our jobs and positions very seriously. This was my light bulb & ah ha moment! I wanted to use the same skills I've acquired as a teacher, tutor, mentor, coach, camp counselor and advisor throughout the years and transfer them into the world of fashion, modeling and being a socialite in the social scene to help, assist, guide and mentor young aspiring models to reach & achieve their goals, potential and dreams. Thus, Flyzel's Role Models was born!
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