Trevor Stewart is pretty darn good on a motorcycle. Winner of both the 2018 and 2019 Big 6 National Grand Prix Championships, Stewart has cemented himself as a staple in the off-road racing scene. But just as intriguing as his racing credentials is Stewart himself; his lean figure and sharp features wouldn’t look out of place in a runway show, and his interest in modern culture and his willingness to get a little weird with his personal style has started to earn him a reputation both in and out of the motorsports world. “I get a little bit of hate from people in the scene who don’t really get what I’m doing or understand my interests, but at the end of the day I’m just having fun with it,” Stewart says with a shrug as we chat with him in his Hollywood home.

Born and raised in Rancho Cucamonga, Stewart grew up racing within the thriving dirt bike community of the area, but at 18 he was nearly ready to quit. After a broken wrist and subsequent blown-out knee sidelined him for nearly 9 months, Stewart was feeling burnt out by both the sport and the surrounding scene. It was then that he received a call from Honda about flying out to Japan to test ride their yet-to-be-released bikes. In this break from racing and experience of a new culture, Stewart started to fall back in love with the sport, and with the support of his new friends at Honda, he came back to racing with a vengeance.

Unlike many of the top racers, who live close to the track to eat sleep and breath the sport, Stewart has done his best to keep a separation between his personal life and that of racing since his return . Part of rediscovering his passion was realizing that racing isn’t all he is. Stewart is part of a multifaceted generation: he wants to live in the city, he wants to go to concerts, play video games, wear the clothes he likes and not be defined and consumed by just one element of his life. And with this newfound balance, Trevor is learning to do both what he loves and be who he wants to be.

Fashion’s infatuation with action-sport subcultures is well documented, and the vibrant jerseys and oversized silhouettes of motorsports have started to creep into runway shows from the likes of Balenciaga, Vetements and other prestigious designers. But unlike fashion’s forays into skating and surfing that has created stars within those industries (like skater Evan Mock’s seemingly overnight rise to internet fame or surfer Danny Fuller’s Chanel partnership) the forays into motorsports have been purely aesthetic. This understandably has to do with the more insulated nature of the sport, but perhaps the industry needs someone to bridge that gap, someone who can easily fit between the grittiness of the dirt bike track and the glamour of the big city. For our money, Stewart is the one to take it there.