I’m sure most of you remember our infamous NYC sales attempt, and for those of you who haven’t seen the video yet watch it now.  The next day we sold some tees at a market sale along side Saint-Germain.

Cynthia Germain (above, next to Michelle) is Saint-Germain’s owner and creator of thick leather bracelets and belts adorned with beautiful jewels and beading.  She also uses vintage watches in her accessories collection packaged in one of a kind wood boxes. The talented Ms Germain offers scarves, dresses, and shirts as well.  We’ll keep you posted once Saint-Germain is for sale online.

I got the opportunity to attend the VH1 Hip Hop Honors Award Show in NYC. In Rachel Zoe’s words I “Shut It Down” in the original floor length polo Vintage Blue dress I rocked to the award show. The dress attracted so much attention, even Six Feet Under star Freddy Rodríguez commented ” This has to be one of the most comfortable sexiest dresses I have ever seen!” To find out when this dress will be available please register to our mailing list on our website to get all the lastest news about our product. The show was bananas, it honored some of the greatest MC’s in the game including Slick Rick.

Now in our world the night can never end on a normal note, we decided to have a late night snack at one of my favorite restaurants in New York, Cafeteria. They have the best mac n cheese and berry mojitos I have ever had. I’m not sure if you have noticed by now, but I love good food and a great cocktail..lol As we were enjoying our food “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner”

Let’s Just Say “Crack is Wack” “Say No To Drugs”
Till The Next Adventure
Liza

Vintage Blue in NYC from Carmen D’Avella on Vimeo.

Vintage Blue goes to NYC to try to sell some tees guerilla style! Watch the video to get a behind the scenes peak of what it takes to Make the Brand. Special thanks to our friend Cynthia Germain of St Germain for helping out. Keep your eyes peeled for her line and maybe even a VB/St Germain collabo in the future!

So, we’ve been saying how we need to document our lives. It’s time to make it happen. We’re about to get a video camera and digital camera to document our chaotic lives. We have about 5 companies you’ll hear about during our adventures.

So Thursday we had an art event at our store, Denim Society. (By the way, we are Liza and Michelle.) We sell premium denim along with t-shirts, funky jewelry, and art in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia. Our site is being reconstructed, but you can check us out at www.denim-society.com. Thursday began our chaotic week. We ran around getting food and drinks and such for the event. We had a great turn out from 6-9pm with food, drinks, music, and free massages.

Next up we head to Bean Town. We (liza michelle and partner Free) leave for Boston after the event at midnight. We get to Boston at 5am and try to get some rest. The plan is to meet with investors for our company, Vintage Blue on Monday and Tuesday. Vintage Blue is a vintage inspired clothing line. We have the rights to the All American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) from the movie A League of their Own with Madonna and Tom Hanks. We have samples and a strong team in place- now we’re trying to earn some capital to make it happen!

So, our money guy say they set us up with two BIG investor meetings for Monday and Tuesday. After spending days creating a powerpoint the money men said we needed, Sunday night we sit down in the hotel lobby to go over the presentation. To give you guys a little understanding of how we work- we don’t do conventional presentations. Everything we do is natural, shows our personality and passion. However, Liza was persuaded by the money men to be formal and write notecards-many many many notecards.
We were all arguing that this is not us and how we work. We spend the entire next day practicing. We go into the meeting- only to find out this is a Hot Seat where they critique your presentation. Halfway through the presentaion the notecards get thrown out and the real passion comes through. Everyone loves it- but no real money people are there- our money men say Tuesday is the big night.

So, we head home and work all night long again. Wake up early and prepare all day long. We set up the meeting room with the magazine we created, vintage candy and luggage, our samples, baseball bats and balls. The room looks fantastic.

No one shows up. Well, one person ends up showing up. So, it would be fantastic to get a lead from this. But, we are pissed that we spent so much time and energy to come to Boston from Philly, practice and put ourselves through so much for these supposedly huge investors- to have one person show up. We had to find someone to work our store and also had to cancel our classes. Oh, that’s another thing. We teach a video production class in West Philly through the Beacon program three times a week. Because we aren’t busy enough.

So, we hit the road after the meeting and head back to good old Philly. Get in at 5am and wake up at 10am to head to NYC for Coterie- a tradeshow where we just ordered the hottest new denim for the store. We treated ourself to a lovely dinner at Cafeteria for our troubles. We’re always learning from our experiences. At the end of the day, life is always good.