Up-cycling Shoes 2023
On October 22 2022, I won $5000 for my sustainable shoe design concept in the Apollo Crypto x Centre contest. I moved up to the final round for the chance to win $25,000. Although I left with no money, I received a third place title- landing me a live streaming job at EZZE. At EZZE, I streamed myself creating custom shoes 3 days a week. Two days were spent a week with hands-on designing, while the last day was used for interviewing creatives in the Venice Beach area. I created four custom pairs of shoes, one a week, from upcycled clothing materials. These photos are from a 3 dimensional Venice art crawl show organized by Tobi, Co Founder of GrlSwrl, at the Emeco Chairs space on Abbot Kinny. Here, I was invited to showcase my collection of up-cycled shoe designs. Beside each shoe, I wrote a description of my process, materials, and overall experience. I auctioned off the shoes with bids starting at $100.
Graveyard Garage x Sandborn Swim Runway 2022
This show came to life after months of preparation, planning, and dreaming. My vision was to showcase my favorite handmade clothing items I had created over the years for my brand, Graveyard Garage, as well as the bikinis my mom and I have been designing for SandBornUSA. I hosted this event locally at the Rose Room and invited Ali and Akki, (Both artists with their own brands: Cosmic Demise, and Father AKKI) to show 5-6 full body outfits, and provide their own models. I also invited my other amazing artist friends Dani T, DannyBoy, and Eric to cover the walls with their psychedelic artworks. I got a local kombucha company to sponsor the event with free drinks, as well as have an open bar with two bartenders. I decorated the room with party city supplies, my own cow rug, ect. and purchased the turf grass runway at Home Depot. I reached out to my currently working model friends, and pro surfers/skaters to see if they would want to be apart of the Runway. I put together full body outfits for each selected model, and asked everyone to come hair/makeup ready. Outside of the event we had all of the outfits on racks under a canopy, and I utilized my dads surf van as a changing room. The video above shows several street wear style SandBorn Bikinis, as well as my favorite airbrushed/hand painted/hand drawn clothing pieces. I asked Ali and his crew to get video coverage of the event for later content creation. Immediately after the event I got to work with Ali to get this video and others like it edited. This video I personally cut, and put music on top for my website.
GYG Collection II 2021
The vision behind this shoot was to capture the culture of Venice while showcasing the Graveyard Garage T-Shirt Graphics I drew and digitized.
My role: Creative direction, wardrobe, location, model sourcing, final selects, edits, and graphic overlays for all socials.
Location: the Venice Beach skatepark, boardwalk, and graffiti walls.
Models: Kate Baum, Tai Waters, Shawn Hale, and I.
Photographer: Kamden Kodimer.
Here are the final selects:
British Vogue 2021
These images were featured In the British Vogue Magazine Issue, "Steezy does it"
Credited in the magazine,"Hand-painted up-cycled trousers, to order, Graveyard Garage," Brianna King stood against a Venice Beach palm tree rocking my pants.
Details:
Working alongside the renowned photographer Craig McDean, six-time Vogue cover model Julia Obis and skater Brianna King was a dream. The team embraced my creative input and artfully integrated my up-cycled wardrobe, authentically capturing me and Venice.
Apple iPhone 11 2019
This photo of me wearing my hand drawn design from the GYG collection 0 was shown around the entire world in every single Apple Store on iPhones 11-14 for the last five years. This hoodie was the only version made in pink, as the rest were neon green.