It can easily be said by anyone, that they created a style that did not exist before them; but how many people have proof. I was wearing glasses with the punched out lenses before "LIL WAYNE" turned 15. Around 1994 I went to school with a pair of glasses from the dollar store that had a lens fall out of them while I was in class (6th grade ) After everyone laughed for hours and days and months, I still chose to wear them. They evolved from one lens to no lens, to tape and glitter to eventually embroidery floss, and that is how the journey began. By the time I got to high school I had a pair of glasses and pens to match every outfit. It was never my intention to be a cheap and tacky fashion mogul, but it is what had become. I purchased the domain polystylez.com in 2003 (a few years after graduating high school); The intention was to market my creations as a specialty brand. Before that date their was no other creator or publisher using that name in history-infact, few people even had websites (search the whois. listings for proof).
Interestingly enough, I made the web site worth over $2ooo in market value by 2010 and by 2020, it was purchased for an astronomical figure by an undisclosed company who was STILL trying to sell it that year. The last time I checked, "polystyle(s)" which was previously a tech term, is now an e-commerce selling fashion and apparel. But this is what it was in 2012, and I am what it will always be.
