#Boutique Labels

[plaunchit2]

Finally finished building the second shelf I bought like two years ago. Still not an ideal setup—you sort of give up on proper organizing after so long—but at least all the blus are off the floor for the time being. Had a lot more VinSyn releases than I realized.

First case is Second Sight and VinSyn/Partner Labels, with some select oversized LEs up top (and yes, ended up putting the XXX releases just front and center, out in the open):

Then there’s my Shout/Scream Factory, with Vestron, Eureka, and Indicator (plus the Phantasm Collection and Arrow’s Chucky Collection since most of the other classic slasher franchises were already over here)

And finally, Arrow and assorted other boutique releases (88 Films, Blue Underground, Scorpion/Code Red, Severin, Synapse), and digibooks.

[laurenfoxmakesthings]

I checked out a few 'introduction to boutique blu ray' videos to see if I could offer one to a friend, and it's such a weird experience for someone Australian. Like, you get American collectors saying 'Oh my god, Imprint is so expensive to get!'.

And I'm over here thinking '...I can get these for like $30 more or less on visits to JB Hi Fi'. I know why Imprint is expensive to get for Americans, importing. I just mean it's kinda funny that the expensive and most inconvenient one to them is the cheapest and most accessible to me. It's like reputations in our minds are switched around.

Meanwhile they're like 'Criterion is so easy to get, just go to a Barnes & Noble sale'. And here I am in a country with no Barnes & Noble and it does not ship here. Plus a town that doesn't have a go-to local boutique blu ray shop (lucky Sydney and Melbourne) that would have them. To be fair, we have a local cult film DVD rental store in this day and age so I think we win in that regard. They just don't have Criterion.

So they're often the most expensive and most inaccessible to me (or at least one of them, Discotek is still even more expensive and inaccessible to me just for shipping nonsense and I just want Lupin III blu rays). It has to be the right online site, right time, and right price (like a shipping cost that's not more than the asking price).

[barejunk]

Distribpix. MVD. W.A.V.E. Blue Underground. Synapse Films. Vestron Video. Criterion Collection. Barefoot's Boutique Label Extravaganza!! Original music by Bryan Bland "a Hundi"

This is everything except Vinegar Syndrome. They got their own video.

[commiegoth]

This guy compared RLM throwing a bunch of Nukie VHS tapes into a woodchipper for a video raising money ($80k+!!!) for charity to book burnings and doubled down when people pointed out VHS is a non-archival format that degrades over time and the film is readily available to watch online for free on archive.org.

Also he's one of the Living Tombstone guys and does the music on those Vivziepop shows.

[stylestream]

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Sophie B | White Fox Boutique top • Fayt The Label skirt • Kmart pumps

[lanejose4884]

Improve Your Comfort: A Men’s Underwear Guide

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[fallonbeatriz5489]

Improve Your Comfort: A Men’s Underwear Guide

Proper fit prevents chafing and discomfort. https://alanicglobal.wordpress.com/2024/06/03/improve-your-comfort-a-mens-underwear-guide/

[ameliaevansfashion]

How To Launch Your Private Label Fashion Boutique In 2024?

Explore the steps you need to take to start your Private Label Fashion Boutique in 2024. Take advantage of expert guidance to reveal your unique style.

[icedteaandoldlace]

Various "wedding dresses inspired by Disney Princesses" and other similar videos keep showing up in my suggested reels on Facebook, and they're all so boring every time. What's happening to the wedding dress industry to make all the dresses being advertised so lackluster and blah, even when given a fun theme with pretty designs to pull inspiration from?

[laurenfoxmakesthings]

Good introductory list for people who would like to find boutique blu rays, meanwhile an interesting and funny video for those in the know.

[athenawillams]

Why Rompers Are Best For Your Little One

Uncover the secrets to finding the perfect romper for your little one as you explore our informative blog!

[wonbloom]

boyfriend!jungwon who gets a little too handsy at your friend groups’ halloween party, you’re dressed as a cat in a little black dress and some shitty ears and a tail attached to an elastic belt. they were cheap, a last minute deal off of amazon, but the way jungwon was acting you’d think that you’d shown up in lingerie.

boyfriend!jungwon who can hardly wait to get you home, rutting into your ass in the elevator taking you up to his apartment, murmuring into your ear about you being his “pretty kitty”

boyfriend!jungwon who fucks you so hard that night until you’re seeing stars, encouraging you to claw all down his back.

boyfriend!jungwon who spends the rest of the night whilst you snore quietly next to him searching up boutiques that sell premium faux fur cat ears, his fingers hover over the section on a pretty pink website titled “tails” and decides fuck it, he’s going all in.

boyfriend!jungwon who has the nerve to look sheepish when you enter his room waving around a pretty pink parcel with cartoon cats plastered all over it labelled with his name.

“discreet packaging they said,” jungwon snorts to himself.

boyfriend!jungwon who quickly turns from embarrassed to embarrassingly hard when you return from the bathroom with the pristine white fur ears clipped into your hair.

“you like em?” you tease, giving him a little spin.

boyfriend!jungwon whose breath catches in his throat when he sees a fluffy tail dangling from underneath your skirt. you’re quick to notice his expression.

“what’s a kitten without a tail?” you question rhetorically, stalking towards him.

“i didn’t think you’d actually put it in,” he gulps, hands ghosting over your sides like he almost can’t believe you’re real.

you smile, climbing into his lap, peppering kisses all along his jaw.

“only thing missing is my collar,” you giggle.

boyfriend!jungwon who is relentlessly teased by the boys when they catch a glimpse of the red streaks left all down his back by your nails.

boyfriend!jungwon who just winks in response.

“cat scratches.”

[stylestream]

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Sophie B | Fayt The Label blazer • White Fox Boutique bodysuit • Sheike skirt • ASOS sandals

[magnetic-rose]

at the end of episode 3 when joel and ellie are getting their supplies from bill and frank’s house, they find a box labeled “woman’s shirts.”

tess is the only woman they’re friends with, which means this box was for her. so whenever they’d go to the clothing boutique, they’d find something for her and set it aside for when she visited next time.

i just - they loved tess. they cared about her. they thought about her even when she wasn’t around. they’d go to their little boutique and pick out clothes for her that she could take back home to the qz. “paying attention to things is how we show love.” “i leave you all of my weapons and equipment, use them to keep tess safe.”

and bill talked a bit more about tess in his letter but we don’t get to fully see it:

“... and she decide you’re...”

also bill’s telling joel some wine pairing for food that he can share with tess, probably because one of bill’s love languages is cooking and he thinks joel should wine and dine her. how cute is that.

[blindenmuth]

[dippedanddripped]

Trendsetters are the alphas of the fashion world, and Fred Segal—originally founded in 1961—has been at the top of the style-making food chain for a long time indeed.

But it was only this month that the iconic retailer unveiled its first private-label collection, entitled The Neighborhoods. The collection coincides with the opening of a new retail store on Sept. 20 at The Shops at Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City, Calif. These developments are just the beginning for new owner Jeff Lotman, who acquired the company three years ago despite no background in either retail or high fashion. The California Apparel News caught up with the 61-year-old to discuss the new collection and how it fits into his bigger vision for the Fred Segal brand.

CAN: What made you want to own Fred Segal?

Jeff Lotman: For 25 years I’ve run a brand-licensing agency called Global Icons, which has clients like Lambor-​ghini and Triumph Motorcycles and offices in Europe and Hong Kong, and I felt like I was spending all my time elevating other people’s brands. There are certain qualities you look for, and Fred Segal is a place where you go to discover the coolest brands. It had much more global awareness than I expected, and it didn’t have any drama. A lot of brands end up doing things that are just wrong, like selling in a distribution channel such as Walmart, and when a brand gets tarnished it’s hard to bring it back. None of this had been done. These were all great things you could really build upon. I happened to meet a friend of the previous owners when they were ready to get out, and I was able to buy it.

CAN: You bought one of the most trendsetting retailers in the world, located in the heart of the global celebrity capital. It must have felt like the team was speaking another language, and you really had to trust them.

JL: I’d never even heard of these brands, so yes I’ve really had to trust people. But you can’t do everything; you always want to delegate. You hire smart people and then get out of the way. We have one buyer who’s still there from before and have gone through a couple of creative directors, and Alfredo Settemio, who designed The Neighborhoods collection, is the one we’re leaning very strongly on.

CAN: This is a big change from licensing.

JL: Yes. I was only in the apparel industry tangentially. Before I bought Fred Segal, I was already setting up licensing deals in Japan, Canada and the Middle East, and then the pandemic tore it all apart so I had to focus on becoming a retailer. It’s been interesting, enlightening and challenging, to say the least. Now that it looks like we’re through the other side, things are really going great. We opened in Malibu during the pandemic, and it’s been profitable since day one. We have a new store opening in Studio City this month and a store coming on the East Coast. We have a licensed store in Korea that’s doing so well they’re opening up two more stores.

CAN: Tell us about the new private-label collection.

JL: One of the things I really wanted to grow was the Fred Segal brand itself, which has tremendous value but had never really been a true brand. And we’re not a Southern California brand, we’re an L.A. brand, so this had to be made in Los Angeles. There used to be a much greater manufacturing industry, but we’re still able to get our organic and recycled cotton spun here in L.A. and then cut, sewn, dyed, washed and finished here by Asher Fabrics.

CAN: Fred Segal is an exclusive shop, visited by celebrities and not inexpensive, but this collection is casual, and the marketing images are very much the “street” side of L.A.—not Bel Air or Malibu. Is this an attempt to court more of a mass market?

JL: The logoed hoodies are aimed to be more accessible, but at the same time the products are priced from $150 to $390, so not mass market but premium. Pricing was a big deal, and so we looked at what similar items are priced at in our store, and that’s how we realized that this is a price point we feel very comfortable with. As for the marketing images, because we’re an L.A. brand, we really wanted to shoot around Los Angeles and to be young and trendy. We could’ve gone older, but we went purposefully younger, and we didn’t want it to be glamour and a luxury thing.

CAN: And yet the entry point isn’t cheap.

JL: It’s not inexpensive, there’s no two ways about it, but it’s also not completely inaccessible. It’s who we want to be and who we are.

CAN: What are your plans for private label, and what will its role be in relation to the other brands you carry?

JL: I don’t think it will ever be everything we carry, but if it got to 50 percent that would be just a huge number, because we’ve got roughly 150 brands in our store. We’re a curatorial store, so it’s important that we have really cool items. We may have a store focused only on Fred Segal goods, but the bulk of our stores will be multi-brand stores. It’s really who we are.