Normal Clothes are Boring. (jacket pictured above from @internationalparker on Instagram) Something about walking into a thrift store that makes me feel an instant rush of satisfaction. Something about possibly finding the coolest jacket from the 70's or a BANGIN jumpsuit from the 80's or anything that the " normal" person would look at as junk, but in my eyes I just had a "come up". I never want to look the same not even a little bit. I'm not the walk past H&M store , stare at the over styled mannequin and want everything I see presented.... That's pretty boring right ? The thought of knowing possibly out of 125 people that went into that store today maybe 15 people had a mannequin stare down and either bought everything they see or a few pieces and this is just might calculations. You now have to deal with the fact that 15 people just that day are going to look like you.. UGH 😒. Who wants to have a world full of twins ? Don't you want to always be fashionably memorable ? I know I do!!! Thrift shopping makes me feel fashionably memorable every time I find an interesting piece even if I'm just throwing on something quick for the day. I know that no one has this item and if they do I'm sure they live 3,000 miles away or I'm not running into them anytime soon. The odds that I see someone wearing something I got from thrift/vintage shopping are pretty high. Our artistry ties into the concept of thrifting. Everything we do as brand of artist we want to make sure it's one-of-a-kind. No one has our imagination! It's like we have our own little thrift stores in our head and the only way of knowing what is in our "store" is you have to wait to see what we make. NORMAL is boring, I would rather be BOLD and BANGIN anyday -SHAYLABANG (creative director of HB)