Dr. Romanelli & George Bamford: A Tale of Two Customizers
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Fashion Designer and Customizer
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Darren Romanelli, better known as Dr. Romanelli, is a Los Angeles-based designer known for creating customized and limited edition clothing within a number of brand collaborations. His collaborations began with a collection for F.C.R.B., consisting of t-shirts, polos and jackets. By 2004, Romanelli was working with Nike and collaborating on the ongoing RECONSTRUCT project, for which he created a patchwork jacket from vintage Nike jumpers.
Romanelli has also worked with high-end luxury brands such as Jaeger LeCoultre, sportswear labels, artists such as Black Sabbath and Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy, as well as Coca Cola.
Romanelli co-owns a marketing agency named StreetVirus, hosting a client roster including Disney, FOX, Warner Bros., Converse and more. StreetVirus also owns The Pancake Epidemic, a creative agency division that focuses on content creation. Romanelli also curates for Blank You Very Much, a crowdsourcing platform that currently hosts over 50,000 graphic designers from around the world. Apart from these ventures, Romanelli has also director several music videos, among them for Kendrick Lamar.
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United by their knack for customization and re-appropriation, it only makes sense that Dr. Romanelli and George Bamford of BAMFORD WATCH DEPARTMENT are the midst of working together on an upcoming project. We took a particular curiosity in this shared interest involving deconstruction and reconstruction over the respective platforms of fashion for Romanelli and luxury watches with Bamford. Luckily, the two were able to link up a short while ago at the Pallihouse Holloway in Los Angeles as they spoke candidly about their respective crafts.
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