TOD
Was born at St Vincents in Manhattan and grew up in Houston, Texas on a steady diet of Ultraman, horror movies, war films, and Star Wars. I spent a lot of time drawing and exploring in the creek by my house. At around the age of 8 I started getting in trouble in school for drawing on all my papers and my desk. In high school I was getting into trouble for wearing biker boots and painting on m
y clothes, so I quit and started playing in punk rock bands. During that time, I started sewing more and put legs of jeans on my jackets for arms, drew, hand painted , silk screened, and dyed all my clothes. I continued to mutilate clothes when I moved to LA in 2000 I started to experiment with aging processes, and patternmaking. I made a vest at a friend’s house, Lenny Kravitz saw it, bought it, and that’s how it all started. Giuliana
I grew up in the middle of the woods in Florida, going to school on a hippy commune until I was 10, then we moved to the suburbs where I didn’t really fit in. I spent a lot of time going to shows, punk/ska/hardcore/rockabilly, it didn’t really matter, as long as it wasn’t part of the mallrat teen culture of my town. I lived at thrift stores, reworking clothes, making outfits that made my parents crazy. Somehow, I ended up in a costume design class and fell in love. So, I was going to school at NYU, ran out of money and moved to LA, because it’s cheaper and warmer here. I bartended for the rich/famous/rude/obnoxious for WAY too long, then I met Tod, we started making things together, and that was that.