finding the shirts is a that's like Fight Club stuff not to be like a dick
or anything it's just I'll say this that every way that's possible to find
vintage t-shirts I'm doing that like every way so many tens of thousands of
so when I moved to New York this was also 20-something years ago I
thought I was gonna get a lot of work but I I couldn't get a single job I
couldn't give myself away and so one day I was like well I guess I gotta sell
some of my t-shirts that first day I set up on the corner of Prince and Mercer I
was set up for the whole day and no one bought anything and then right when I
was about to start giving up and was about to start to pack up this one guy
goes by and he's like just this does a double take and it's like how much are
these that one that one that one that one and I was like I told him that's 200
I was 300 I was this and he was like great I'll take all of them
so Chris its back not heavy at all I sprained my wrist right here doing
laundry that's how much laundry I was doing yesterday I'll say that there
aren't a whole lot of vintage dealers that I respect what they do because
they're just saying it for money so there's the dealers that are in it for
money and then the dealers that are in it because they love it this was dead
stock I did all the bleach stains on me if it was my size it definitely 100%
would not be here if you're passionate about something if you really care about
something and you your actions are consistent with that eventually people
are gonna notice I think we're done is that it yeah great
okay all the holes all of them on this one I get a little over-enthusiastic
about destroying the t's and sometimes they're really destroyed so we need to
repair these by my hand I would say anywhere from like a week to a month it
takes me to work on a single T this is actually a fairly typical day rushing
from one
all right whoops this is not going this pile is for Kanye like this on him is
just gonna be ridiculous for one it's gonna fit him utterly incredibly like
the size is gonna be so drapey and effortless on him the color will be
great on him and it says Keith Richards without saying Keith Richards anywhere
alright on that we have to go because I am late until until the year and a half
ago I'd never heard of fear of God or Jerry Lorenzo I just wasn't the world
that I operated and I was just really one-on-one with my clients it was
through my selling to Kanye that I met Jerry and he bought a bunch of t-shirts
and then we just started talking about this stuff and then he asked me to do a
collection with him and that was the Maxfield collection
that's good timing my store basically is in my bag yeah and I make house calls
I'm like a drug dealer but with vintage t-shirts there's this whole process that
people people think it's just like oh by t-shirt at a thrift store for like a
couple of bucks and then put it on a rack like that's maybe that's what some
dealers do that's not it's not what I do oh the most expensive piece I ever sold
was 17 grand a sweatshirt please I would totally wear that if I didn't have this
anymore I mean no no but yours is mine is cool
my nice jealous yellow the same as mine I don't want it to sound like you know I
care how it sounds it's like I it's not just like the
collections that I carry it's also my my clients just cuz this stuff means too
much to me and I want to make sure it actually goes for people who care about
it one way another either like Benny who really fucking cares about the music or
someone who cares maybe they don't care about who's on a
t-shirt but they care about the fashion of the way it looks on them so much -
it's like both have me in my opening