Michael Graham who was born and raised in the Bed-Stuy/Bushwick area of Brooklyn New York, has traveled the globe for creative pursuits: he lived in South Africa while making his own feature film, in Colombia for work as a National Geographic documentary producer, and he lived in Europe and developed into a motivational youth speaker. Now he’s back in Brooklyn, and the past few years he’s focused on his Savant clothing line from an Bed-Stuy boutique located on Fulton Street, which he opened in 2019, taking occasional trips to Yucatán, where he works with leather artisans to produce the handcrafted tote bags, wallets and bucket hats that are displayed among the store’s graphic tees and hoodies, tunics, varsity jackets, work vests and other fashionable wares.