Starting a New Line/Brand Feedback Thread

Shot the lookbook at random today just because my homie bought the tees and we had nothing else to do.
Let me know what you think.

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Here are a few samples THE MASSES came up with recently. Let me know what you think. 

What do you guys do when you have a design ready to print, and then later you see a bigger known brand post a preview of the same concept?

This shit happens way too fucking much for me. Prime example, I was looking at old helmet graffiti from the 70's(a family friend that served was showing me his, pretty cool shit) and went "You know what would be cool? An all over pattern shirt of this shit". I put in hours remaking the camouflage pattern they had back then, and was writing up some graffiti for it, trying to figure out what all I wanted(including shit like the BOMB 'EM peace sign and tour calendars or just drug references). I was so fucking hyped. I loved that shit. I felt like I finally had a really cool idea.

Looking up some more images of helmet graffiti for inspiration, I found this shit:

Erik Brunetti had the same idea as me, 3 years earlier. The thing is, I don't even really like Fuct. There was no way I saw this shit a while back and was just remembering it as my own idea.

Streetwear is the largest hivemind I've ever seen. We're all looking at similar places for inspiration, we're all coming to similar conclusions. Shit, I've had ideas that would be in my notebook for months, just to see a big brand(Supreme, if you were wondering) put out a product that was so close to mine, I couldn't put out mine without be accused of biting. The shit's crazy.

Edited for spelling and shit, because I'm a basic bitch.

What do you guys do when you have a design ready to print, and then later you see a bigger known brand post a preview of the same concept?

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What blank did you print those hoodies on? They look nice and beefy

I made this and posted a sample, had gone up for full print yet



I think it was 2 or 3 weeks later a buddy saw this at the local mall from a local brand.



I said fck it, switch it up and put one money bag

Looks like kite life...

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Omg.. There's all kinds of shit going on here..

My business partner and I have been working on our idea for many months now. We've

been working in the raw denim industry for about 2 years now as a denim

jeans retailer (Mostly Japanese and American brands) so we've had the

opportunity to work with some of the highest quality denim in the

market.

However, with every pair that we sell, there are things we personally think we can improve.
Our

idea is to create a new technical garment brand. We get much

inspiration from other technical garment brands like ISAORA, Stone Island, Acronym, Outlier, Arc'teryx Veilance, Nigel Cabourn and some high fashion designers like Boris Bidjan Saberi, Carol Christian Poell,

Damir Doma, etc.

Why technical garments?
1) We're from Vancouver - land of rain
2) We believe that the clothing you buy should make your standard of living better in SOME way. The garments you buy should contribute somehow, and having this "third dimension" would create so much more value to the piece in addition to it looking good.

With

our expertise lying in denim jeans, we've been researching technologies

to make the denim fabric water-resistant while still being able to

fade. We're aware of the Levi's Commuter but to be honest, it's not that

great. We got samples from the factory in South America that makes the

fabric for them and we didn't like them.

We're going to start with 3 fits: straight, tapered and curved-seam.
Hopefully if our company can grow, we can expand to other things like shirting, outerwear, luggage and accessories.

We've spoken with many, many, many denim mills and we think we've found the fabric we like:


We have a name and our website domain had just been purchased but I don't want to release it until it's ready :p
Not much to show yet, but I would love to hear some of the HB community's feedback.

My business partner and I have been working on our idea for many months now. We've

been working in the raw denim industry for about 2 years now as a denim

jeans retailer (Mostly Japanese and American brands) so we've had the

opportunity to work with some of the highest quality denim in the

market.

However, with every pair that we sell, there are things we personally think we can improve.
Our

idea is to create a new technical garment brand. We get much

inspiration from other technical garment brands like ISAORA, Stone Island, Acronym, Outlier, Arc'teryx Veilance, Nigel Cabourn and some high fashion designers like Boris Bidjan Saberi, Carol Christian Poell,

Damir Doma, etc.

Why technical garments?
1) We're from Vancouver - land of rain
2) We believe that the clothing you buy should make your standard of living better in SOME way. The garments you buy should contribute somehow, and having this "third dimension" would create so much more value to the piece in addition to it looking good.

With

our expertise lying in denim jeans, we've been researching technologies

to make the denim fabric water-resistant while still being able to

fade. We're aware of the Levi's Commuter but to be honest, it's not that

great. We got samples from the factory in South America that makes the

fabric for them and we didn't like them.

We're going to start with 3 fits: straight, tapered and curved-seam.
Hopefully if our company can grow, we can expand to other things like shirting, outerwear, luggage and accessories.

We've spoken with many, many, many denim mills and we think we've found the fabric we like:


We have a name and our website domain had just been purchased but I don't want to release it until it's ready :p
Not much to show yet, but I would love to hear some of the HB community's feedback.