[Music]
Hey, it's Neels, what's going on?
I'm super excited to be accepting the Tommy design challenge.
I'm currently in Los Angeles.
I'm going to be designing on live with the team over in Europe.
I’m excited to see what we create.
My favorite emoji to use actually this past week has been the skier.
I just think it's so random.
Throw it at the end of any text and people are just like what?
You know, there's a song by deadmau5 called The Velt and it
wouldn't necessarily makes me cry, but the feeling of power that
it gives me could make me cry.
I don't really cry to music too much but that's the closest.
My favorite tattoo.
I’m going to show you right here, so I have this tattoo.
I'll show this camera, I'll show this camera and I developed this
about a year ago with an artist named Evan Tattoo who's in New York, and
we came up with this design and I really wanted to depict myself as
a Starseed and you know just this kind of more than human thing and we
just came up with all these random things to kind of put around it and
stuff, so it has a lot of meaning to me and it’s I think aesthetically, I
mean look at that, it's ridiculous.
So, yeah, that's definitely my favorite one.
Hi, Neels, nice to meet you.
So, are you ready to start designing?
I'm ready, I'm prepared.
So, there are four different fits.
We have the regular tee as you can see over here, we have a sleeveless one,
a cropped tee, and an off shoulders.
Okay, I think let's do like a standard tee.
Yeah, sure.
So, we have some badges and patches.
Of course, I have your quote over here.
My first idea would be to put the quote on the back.
I've always like kind of on the back top, I've always liked where you know
you can read something behind someone.
Yeah, that's cool in there.
The quote I put on the back of the shirt is “live the way you want,
because you can” and it's actually a quote that I came up with when
I was 16 years old and I had left school at the time and had started to
pursue my life in the real world as an adult, and it was something that
I would kind of remind myself when I was doubting the world or situations
was just “live the way you want.
because you can” and that was something that I kind of live
my life by that I can do what I want just by the mindset and the
thoughts alone, so “live the way you want, because you can”.
You know, what would be cool is to do something like on the left shoulder.
One of the patches maybe, that's cool.
Yeah, a little lower, it's good.
All right, anything else you would like to add?
More badges or maybe some patches.
Maybe put NV on the blue shoulder in patches.
Yeah, sure.
You know, I definitely feel it's very important as an entertainer and as
an entrepreneur and just as a citizen in general to kind of have the hard
conversations that I need to have with other people that may be my friends
that feel differently about things that are going on in the world and
you know, each of those different respective relationships there's
different conversations to be had.
They're not always comfortable, but I think that's one of the first
ways we can start coming together is really being transparent and
straightforward with people you love that it's not okay to think or be
certain ways anymore and that we need to all grow and move together.
And that starts you know like I said with going in each of those individual
groups, friends, family, and business and kind of everyone in between.
I think maybe let's just make the letters smaller.
Unfortunately, they're like a preset size so it can't be smaller, sorry.
So, maybe it would be cool to put it under the quote on the back then.
You want to take them to the back, yeah?
Yeah, I think that'd be cool.
It kind of sits under it.
Yeah, that looks clean, I like that.
Anything else you would like to add?
Maybe something at the front or…
No, I think that's cool, it's got patches like kind of in
each corner now, I like it.
For me, it's interesting because I express myself in a creative way
through music and it's something where I’ve found you know really just an
antidote to my life and something that can always just kind of make me feel
connected with the world is music.
So, my creativity really stems in music and the exploration of music,
the production of music, listening to music, playing it live and I
definitely think it's important for everyone to find one creative thing
because what I've ultimately realized through creative things, in general,
is they tap into a different part of your brain that is operating
different than your analytical mind, and it's really important
from a therapeutical standpoint for like your overall psychology for
your body to have a combination of that creativity and the regular,
you know world that you live in.
Your design is finished, what do you think of it?
I think it looks amazing.
I'm really excited about it.
The colors are awesome and I wish I could wear it right now.
I just finished designing my own t-shirt with Tommy Hilfiger.
I'm super excited about it.
I think I did pretty well for my first time designing.
It's actually going to be up for charity as well, so
hopefully, you'll see it soon.
Passing it on to you.