Q&A with Dee & Ricky
What were you guys doing before fashion?
D+R: It depends around what time. The past 11 years in a nutshell included: shoplifting, loitering in downtown Manhattan/Brooklyn, skating, playing with LEGOS, riding the Staten Island Ferry everyday, chilling with hot Spanish women, bb guns and sling shots and such. Mad bad shit in school, watching cartoon network and those Saturday morning cartoons. Mighty Max was the shit and so were the Ghostbusters.
What have been some major influences, both personally and in your design work?
D+R: Our Grandmother AKA Gramz & our childhood. Basically, just growing up being a kid in the hood, cartoons & shit.
What sort of resistance have you faced breaking into the industry and putting your product out there?
D+R: Nothing real crazy. But if anything, other people not being on point. It’s really easy for us to get our product out there, too easy.
My impression is that you identify more with the high fashion community rather than the streetwear industry. Would you agree? Where do you see yourselves fitting in with either industry?
D+R: Yeah high end is the shit….but we seem to be on a totally different level. Eight times cooler than Marc Jacobs and one level lower that Margiela….
Your Lego accessories were the first thing to catch on. Now the Starter jacket duffel bags are in stores. Both involve taking a generic product and flipping it into something new. Is this a concept you hope to build the brand on long-term?
D+R: Yeah kind of. It’s fun taking old things and reversing them. But who knows what we will do…we don’t even know.
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