If you didn't already know, this past weekend we had a booth at the spring Toronto Clothing Show, and let me tell you, it was the best one yet. The theme for our booth this year was "children's Birthday party in the backyard" Not because it was any one's Birthday of course, but we figured if we took some fake grass, noise makers, presents, a clothesline, a hand painted 18' background mural, party hats, balloons, a custom made speechbubble cake (Thanks to Mel and her sister), streamers, a made from scratch picket fence (Thanks to D and Aaron), a magician, and more candy than 10 Halloweens put together, we'd end up with a disgusting amount of awesomeness.
In addition to all the fun we had at our own booth, we also made a ton of new friends at other booths. For example, if you were alive 10 years ago, there's a pretty good chance your pants were made by Modrobes. Well guess what. They're back, and they're PISSED! (Okay, not really, but they are back.) In exchange for candy owner/creator/super nice guy Steve hooked us up with a ton of good advice on running your own brand. Modrobes sold over 2 million pants in under 3 years, and getting to pick Steve's brain all about it was fantastic. Also, without giving too much away, a collaborative effort involving Canada geese is in the works. Seriously.(Pause x Modrobes? Ha!)
Our good friends Rose and Stephanie of Crywolf had our backs the entire show. Even going so far as setting up our booth for us in the morning when we were late...twice. I swear to God we're going to treat you two to Cora's or die trying.
Newcomers Creative Zing impressed us all with their clean designs and large variety of products having only started up a couple months ago. Something tells me we'll be seeing more of them...dun dun duuuun! (That's called foreshadowing)
Thank you to Love, Poetry for all the vegan cookies, watermelon, not-so-subtle lewd comments, and cleaning my shirt after I spilled coffee all over it. You are welcome at our booth anytime.
And like always Playdead Cult creator/owner Stu was there to give us shit about not having our silk screening press set up. He's kind of like our Dad as far as having a brand goes, but he's funny and let's us keep our bedroom door closed when we have girls over. So we like him.
Most of all, thank you to Mel Smith for her relentless hard work, beatings, and verbal abuse to help us get ready for the show. Although I'm sure it's scarring us on some serious level that will come back to haunt us later, we appreciate it none the less.
See you all at the fall show. Party at our booth!
-Eric Pause ¶ 4:40 PM
