NYE Fashion Rave 2 was a success! If you missed the event, make sure to check out our photos posted on our Facebook page:
Happy New Years from Lovesick! Lots in store for 2010…
cheers,
NYE Fashion Rave 2 Photos
January 5, 2010NYE FASHION RAVE 2 @ the Foundation
December 10, 2009
NYE Fashion Rave 2009
Thursday, December 31 @ 9pm-3am $20
Foundation Event Space (West Bottoms)
1221 Union K.C. MO, 64101
FASHION BY:
Christian Michael, Katie Coble, Monkey Wrench, Gabriel Garner, Take A Halliday and Lovesick Clothing.
MUSIC BY:
NOMATHMATICS/ Max Justus/ Capybara
INFO:
Fashion Show starts @ 1030 (time subject to change – show to be done by 11:45 for countdown). Midnight toast (byob) then Dance party takes over! Last year over 500 came out, make it a blast again by supporting local Kansas City fashion. Lovesick will be showcasing new customized pieces specifically for this runway show in addition to our new Living Dead collection.
Email with any questions: support@lovesickclothing.com
Shop online: www.lovesickclothing.com
Lovesick Wanderings
October 4, 2009Here are a few miscellaneous things going on in the
Lovesick Clothing world –
In line with the whole historical American clothing is cool thing,
check out these boots (sorry I’d paste the image, but the websites requests that I don’t).
LEVI’S XX501 Vintage Denim
In the land of denim, selvedge reigns supreme. In the land of selvedge, red selvage is on the top. This is all thanks to Levi’s. Check this little excerpt from the history of the Levi’s 501.
http://www.levistrauss.com/Downloads/history_of_levis_501_jeans.pdf
1915 The overalls win a “Highest Award” at the Panama-
Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
LS&CO. begins to buy denim from Cone Mills in Greensboro, North Carolina.
c1927 Cone Mills develops the 10 oz. red selvage denim exclusively for the 501® jeans. The denim is woven in 29” wide looms.
You know all those stories about pants lasting longer and old clothing never falling apart or anything? The selvedge denim is why. Some of you may be familiar with our love affair with Nudie Jeans, and their lasting never wash awesomeness. Well thanks to Levi’s we don’t have to go to European companies for our jeans. The American staple has risen the denim bar again and begun to remake some classic true to era XX501 jeans. Over the years the 501 cut has changed. The Levi’s vintage line has 501 cuts that date back to different years. (1933, 1915, 1954 to name some) These are all made with that selvedge denim that keeps everything together for eternity. If you’d like to look at some, check the link.
If you want to read more about LEVI’S vintage read these -
http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2009/08/24/asked-answered-levi-strauss-co/#more-11178
http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2009/09/17/asked-answered-levi-strauss-co-part-ii/#more-11229
http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2009/08/06/hands-on-levis-vintage-clothing/
Lovesick is Loving: Auto-Tune the News
Living Dead Runway Show + IEI [VIDEO]
September 26, 2009The much anticipated, the long awaited: LIVING DEAD RUNWAY SHOW MONTAGE. Missed our show? Have no fear:
Living Dead Runway Show from Lovesick Clothing on Vimeo.
In other news:
Lovesick Clothing recently participated in IEI’s (the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation) celebration of its ranking as 25th in the nation for entrepreneurship through the Bloch School of business at UMKC. Lovesick Clothing is proud to be able to support and align itself with this amazing organization and all the help IEI has given us. Check out the video and the full story:
till next time -
Living Dead Runway Show
July 12, 2009New details have arisen in conjunction with our new line ‘Living Dead‘:
Date: Friday, August 7, 2009
Location: 517 E. 18th St., Kansas City, MO 64108
Time: 6:30-8:00pm Live Music (Kevin Hanly, Queens Club) 8:30-9:00pm Runway Show (Featuring Max Justus) 9:00-late Max Justus Dance Party
Sponsors: Spyn Studio, Blue Bouquet, Eric John: Traveling Hairstylist and The Record Machine
Description:
This event will coincide with the monthly First Friday event that is held in the Crossroads (downtown) featuring numerous open galleries. Come down to see art, listen to exceptional live musical performances (Kevin Hanly, Queens Club and Max Justus) and check out KC’s premiere up and coming clothing label, Lovesick Clothing. New product will be on sale at our booth. Please, contact for additional information.
- Chad Owen, Brendan O’Shaughnessy of Lovesick Clothing
Online Store Down For Maintenance
June 7, 2009Our online store is now down. We encourage you to keep in contact with us until we’re able to launch our brand new site featuring our Fall/Winter 2009 line. Email us or keep connected through our sub-sites which are listed on our main website.
Lovesick presents – TIM YORK
May 27, 2009This Friday (may 29th)
Time: 7:30pm – 10:30pm
Location: Blue Bouquet
517 East 18th Street
Kansas City, MO
Free Show – bring some cash to buy a CD
Tim York will be ‘officially’ releasing his first full album.
Lovesick will have a sneak peak at some “Living Dead” product.
LIVING DEAD + New News
April 15, 2009
As is typical with Lovesick Clothing, you don’t hear a whole lot about us for a while and then BAM; we’re back in your face with new news (I might catchphrase that), random meanderings and a lot to talk about. Granted, this sort of thing is somewhat needed as we actually need to conceptualize our ideas (the fun exciting part) and produce those ideas (the lengthy part). Currently, Lovesick Clothing is in production with our new line. The stage in the game where we can finally make our ideas reality. We’ve been doing quite a bit of experimenting lately (as you’ve no doubt seen in our previous posts) and we’re now harnessing everything into a tight nit line. I’m happy to announce to you today the unveiling of our brand new line:
We are 100% and whole heartily stoked for this new line. June 2009 is the set release date… Tell your friends Lovesick is back, in black.
Lovesick Clothing is now located on 18th St. in the Crossroads of Kansas City (Art District). While although this will just be our office and production facility we still will be putting on events at our location so everyone can check it out. Our landlords, who actually share the space with us (www.bluebouquet.com) are the coolest people ever and we couldn’t be happier working alongside them. If you ever have any need of event decoration (I’m not limiting it to flowers because they simply do just about anything your mind can think up) give them a call- best in K.C. 816-333-3571
Our newest INK article hit newsstands a few weeks ago but you can still check out the link for the full article and photos. <www.inkkc.com>
Recently Lovesick Clothing attended The Village‘s first event ‘Village presents CARGO‘. It was a fun event and we were able to set up a booth and sell our product and a few key members within our company were actually in the runway show (although Lovesick was not showcased as a designer we most likely will be collaborating on the next event with our new line). Overall it was successful at shedding light on the issue of Human Trafficking that is currently a reality within our present day. Who said you can’t have a little bit of ridiculously-out-there-fun once and a while?!?
For more photos of the event: <www.inkkc.com>
Lovesick Clothing is now on sale within Crown Center downtown in a shop called Gifted Hands. Please check it out if you ever get a chance. It is a great opportunity to get to see our clothing up close if ordering over the web is not your fancy. We’re excited with the relationship we are building with them. Gifted Hands help women in abuse (please read their message to get the whole story).
-Brendan O’Shaughnessy & The Lovesick crew
Village presents CARGO + INK
March 18, 2009
Lovesick Clothing is proud to announce our appearance at the upcoming Village fashion madness. Village presents CARGO promoting much needed attention to Human Trafficking injustices. 10% of the money raised from this show will go to Hope House, which deals with Human Trafficking.
Featured Bands:
The Cherry Tree Parade (http://www.myspace.com/thecherrytreeparade)
The Abracadabras (http://www.myspace.com/abracadabras)
Nomathmatics (http://www.myspace.com/nomathmatics)
DESIGNERS /
Belle Ami
Demetri
Kitty Reese
nathanielREN3WAL
rashidas75
ARTISTS & SHOPPING /
> Clothing & Accessories:
BradyandTaylor
Lovesick Clothing
(plus designers from previous column)
> Film:
Gnarly Enterprises
> Photo:
Jeff Evrard
Naomi Neal
> Sculpture:
A.P. Swearengin
> Vinyl Toys:
tyleR ™
> Painting:
Jennifer Holz
Anne Vieux
> Charity:
Hope House (dealing with Human Trafficking)
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WHEN:
Friday, April 10th
TIME:
6:30pm doors open
8pm bands start playing
WHERE:
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
12345 College Blvd
Overland Park, KS 66210
http://www.nermanmuseum.org
TICKETS:
$10.00
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http://www.myspace.com/villagespace
http://www.lovesickclothing.com
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Lovesick Clothing was also featured in the latest issue of INK. Check it out if you get a chance.
(3.18.09/ vol.1, issue 51/ pg.30)
http://www.inkkc.com/article/4729
Hope to see you guys at the Village fashion show!
- Lovesick crew
Tie Dye?
February 27, 2009Lovesick Clothing is hard at work with our new line scheduled to drop this summer (Fall/Winter 2009). Consequently we have been dabbling in a new world of clothing modifications (sewing, dying, etc.). We played with (as the title suggests) tie-dye. We approached this a little differently, though. We actually clamped the shirts after folding them, instead of the traditional rubber band twist method. Personally, I was hoping for this gradual fading from one color to another awesomeness effect. More akin to a two-tone gradation that you would get from a Photoshop tool on the computer. Unfortunately, I got more of a tie dye striped look. It’s extremely hard to make tie dye into something it’s not. It seems to cling to its psychedelic coloring transitions like AC~DC held onto it’s success.
Maybe we should all take a life lesson from this tie dye character. Even if you suck, if you cling to what you are with an unrelenting passion maybe things will be awesome (and colorful).
- Words from Chad Owen (with the moral support of Brendan O’Shaughnessy)
