See more of Charlie Hustle on Facebook. Forgot account? Create New Account. Charlie Hustle. Clothing (Brand) in Kansas City, Missouri. Community See All. Women's Clothing Store. Springfield Brewing Company Athletics. Amateur Sports Team. Broadcasting & Media Production Company. Topgolf (Overland Park). ![]() Streetwear is about making a statement, Vu Radley said, and the Heartbreak Kids collection says more than words alone could express. “It’s an attitude. Pushing out statements without censoring yourself,” said Radley, co-founder and creative director for. “We say it how it is in our designs.” For the Heartbreak Kids capsule, which dropped Feb. 10 at MADE’s flagship store downtown, that translates to that takes a swipe at a leading Kansas City apparel competitor,. It’s a literal middle-finger directed toward the mainstream, said Radley and fellow MADE designer Max Ayalla. “This collection for us is more of an anti-establishment approach to Kansas City,” Ayalla said. “We’ve dirtied it up. We’ve kept on our own brand. It’s really our interpretation of the anti-cheesy-corny-kitschy Kansas City-look that people are utilizing right now and making popular.”. Heartbreak Kids collection, MADE Urban Apparel “A lot of other things you’ll see — hearts and fountains — are not really our vibe,” Radley added. “When you see our KC products, hopefully you can see the difference between them and something that’s more souvenir.” Heartbreak Kids’ monochromatic color scheme is broken up only by a red heart-shaped character that features MADE’s signature X’s for eyes, as well as hand gestures that aren’t appropriate for all retail locations, Radley added. The collection’s sold out in less than 24 hours, according to co-founder Mark Launiu. “We’d been wanting to add a character, another little mascot. That’s what’s fun about what we do. It has middle fingers thrown up, and that’s kind of what streetwear is,” Radley said. Windows 7 free download full 32 bit. “Everybody’s been posting ‘No apologies’ lately, and we don’t have any apologies for Heartbreak Kids. We just put it out. It was time to do it.” Jokes fit to print While the creative process for most MADE collections begins about six months before the clothes debut in stores, the broken heart design for Heartbreak Kids was in the works much earlier, Radley and Ayalla said. The image started as an inside joke within the — the apparel business’ team and supporters — in late 2016, Ayalla said, but it wasn’t until a few months ago that the designers decided to take it public in a formal collection. While Radley and Ayalla declined to detail a specific trigger, the following played out late last year on social media. In November and early December 2017, Instagram users pointed out similarities between — maker of — and, a boutique print maker on East 31st Street. (It wasn’t the first such claim of duplicated imagery, with MADE fans previously noting similarities between one of its white, block-letter “Kansas City” shirts and a later offering from Charlie Hustle.) At about the same time, Normal Human, a small screen printing shop in the Crossroads, made headlines when it introduced the “ ” — a shirt emblazoned with the image of a Charlie Hustle KC Heart Tee on its front. A post shared by (@oddities_prints) on Dec 7, 2017 at 6:25pm PST Though tension already had been brewing in the local apparel industry over brands’ intellectual property, the timing to the Oddities Prints dustup was coincidental, said. “We had a lot of people who loved it because of the feud, although it was not our specific intention to take a shot at another local company; we just thought it was a funny idea, commentary on KC T-shirt culture, in general, and our (Normal Human’s) place within it,” he said. “Maybe this is an apt analogy: We’re the guy behind home plate waving his hands like a crazy person so our friends at home will see us on TV, while Charlie Hustle is up to bat with the bases loaded.” The shirt was meant in jest — a way of showcasing that Normal Human wasn’t taking itself too seriously, Mahaney said. “It was us saying, ‘Things are really getting out-of-hand, and we know it,’” he said.
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