Joshua Kissi

Joshua Kissi (born April 25, 1989) is an American fashion blogger, photographer and artist of Ghanaian descent, and one half of the duo that forms Street Etiquette.

Early life and career

Born Joshua Osei Bamfo Kissi in the Bronx borough located in New York City to Ghanaian parents Alexander Kissi and Connie Osei migrated to the United States in 1982 from Monrovia, Liberia. As a young multi-talented musician honed his MusicAL skills throughout his youth, but found a love for fashion when he started to frequent The Downtown streets of Manhattan and explore online forums. Kissi attended and graduated Mount Vernon High School in Mount Vernon, New York. While only completing two semesters of college with a medical pursuit, he left school in order to pursue a career fusing fashion and art with a potent message.

Kissi is associated with Mos Def, Art Comes First, Adrien Sauvage, and Ouigi Theodore.

Kissi currently resides in the Bedford–Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.

Street Etiquette

In 2008, Kissi, alongside his partner Travis Gumbs, started the brand and cultural movement Street Etiquette. Their mission was to create a men’s style site with an urban perspective. What they actually uncovered was that and so much more by actually pushing the cultural dialogue of today's world through arts, music, film and fashion. They have since been featured in magazines such as GQ, VICE, Complex and been labeled as the Best Men’s style blog by UK's The Guardian and named among the ’40 Bloggers Who Really Count’ by the London Times. Their projects list is endless with collaborations with major brands such as MR PORTER, Nordstrom, and Nike

Street Etiquette is currently working on their first short film debut titled SLUMFLOWER which started out as an online editorial in collaboration with Visual Supply Co.