I too had a pair of Jordan's, i had a pair of original Air Jordan's. The 1's in black and red. The only reason I had them is because my Mom found them on the clearance rack way after they came out. I was far from cool.
Shipping this Vaughn de Heart order with a free shirt from The Good Child that I won in a In my short sleeve contest. The next person to order size small will also get an extra free shirt from The Good Child.
I am very excited for this restart of the series. It seems darker, like what happened when they restarted Batman with Batman begins which is the best thing to ever happen to Batman.
Shipped this order of shirts out to D-structure a store on Haight street in downtown San Francisco. They are the latest store to carry Vaughn de Heart. Vaughn de Heart is now carried in 6 stores worldwide. I made sure to send them plenty of black and orange "Heart" shirts.
Well your first question probably is why? Why have I reached out to the Kickstarter community? Cause I need a dolla dolla. (For all of the Aloe Blacc and How to make it in America fans) This would be an oversimplified answer to the question. The reason is because through the creation of this brand I have tried to make things a bit more personal. The phrases on my clothing may be a bit more passionate
than say the next brand. Even down to the custom tags, that change with every design, I have tried to make a connection with my audience.
Whether that is through their understanding of trying to strike it
out on their own, a love of language, an expression of the motivation
of heart, or even just for the love of sipping hot chocolate and
listening to Parisian instrumentals with the feel of a soft v neck
snug on their bicep.
Kickstarter is another way for me to make my upcoming
collection personal. To make people feel a part of the collection, a
part of its creation. When people pledge their money, I will be able
to create a garment for them with their own name inscribed on the tag.
I don’t even have that, none of my shirts say RoyLyn Palmer-Coleman
all they have is some Vaughn nonsense. Hopefully before they put these
garments on, or see them in their drawer, or hanging in their closet,
it makes them feel a little different than the other garments do. So
that as they go through the winter of 2011 they may stay heated from
the warm fuzzies alone, that came from giving.
Another goal that the funding of my project will
accomplish, is allowing stores to carry more of my items instead of
just the t-shirts. It costs me quite a bit more to produce sweaters,
hoodies, and hats. So I cannot offer them to stores at a competitive
rate. With Kickstarter’s help, I will have the ability to offer my
garments in stores within most people’s price range. It will also
allow more people to take home more Vaughn de Heart items to feed,
care for, and nourish.
Any amount helps the cause. I look forward to making
many garments with your names inside the tags. Thank you, and I hope
you will be a part of my experiment in courage.
You can go here to fund http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vaughndeheart/2011-fall-winter-collection
Here are mock ups from some of the items that I will make for the collection. And at some of the donation levels you can get these items with your name printed on the neck labels.
"Heart" the essence of my brand printed on a soft heather grey v neck.
"Fait avec courage" is french for "Made with courage" printed on a clean white v neck.
"Division Intrépides" is french for "Fearless Division" which is significant to me because starting a clothing brand was my biggest fear. Now that I have I feel somewhat fearless.
Carbon 2011. I remember following Bobby Hundreds blog when he first starting talking about this event. Hosted in Australia Carbon is a trade a fair expo that featured some of streetwear's biggest names as speakers.
Today is the 2 year anniversary of my brand. I wanted to do something to celebrate so I decided to make a video. This story is kind of the precursor to meeting Nick and having that huge experience that you can read about on my story page. I met Nick 2 years ago to the day. This event happened to me about 8 months before the Nick incident (go here to read about it) so even before I met him I was kind of waiting, expecting something to happen to lead me in a direction to hopefully do something different. There are a lot of things shown in the video, but there are a few clips that come up at certain moments when I talk about something specific things because they have special significance.
The first is when I show the "Nous gardons le cardon" shirt right when I say that his words sent me into a rage is because that phrase roughly translated from french means "We will not loose heart." Because for whatever reason his words didn't deter me from what I was determined to do.
When I talk about the fashion industry being competitive and that people's perception could be wrong I show the "Les gens courageux"shirt which is french for "The fearless ones" because I believe that moving forward when people or perception are discouraging you is a fearless attribute.
And lastly when I talk about people who have supported me I show a picture of my brother and I from his wedding because my brother is my biggest supporter. Ever shirt design and pretty much ever move of the brand I run by him first. It's been like this from even before I started the brand with other things that I've attempted.
And a big thank you to the band Lemolo for letting me use their song "Open Air" you can find more info about them here.
A film about Dustin Kott a Californian motorcycle builder who makes custom British style Cafe racers out of old japanese bikes. Watching a designer in his element, I swear there's nothing like it.