Joshua Vides

I'm shocked there's brands I'm walking past and I'm like damn this product looks pretty solid I'll be like yo how long you been doing the brand oh a year and I'm like you're making cut and sew shorts with flames and like leather how did you and they're like oh it's just there's so much access now like information and even with AI right like assisting designers I'm like it took me a year when I was 19 years old to figure out how to print a t-shirt

no i mean honestly like like i was just saying like for for me it's just kind of like coming and showing up and like shaking hands and like being homies and obviously for people that haven't seen my work to get familiar with and go oh what's this right it's really just like sparking a conversation um you know and yes we've obviously brought some product to sell but it's like you know i got pins at my booth that are like 10 bucks you know so if you were coming by me and like i don't think anything else at the entire show is ten dollars i'm like cool take

No, I mean, it's again, like fortunately I'm in a position where it's like, I can put up my own money to kind of do this and like not really think about a return.

You know, it's like more so allowing people to see the work, get familiar with it.

And obviously like have larger conversations.

Like, honestly, I had a conversation yesterday that pays for like five of these boots.

Wow.

So I'm like, cool.

Let's keep talking.

You know, we'll meet in a week or whatever.

And it has to do with like a brand or a collaboration or whatever.

You know, it's like, cool.

It was worth coming to ComplexCon, if that makes sense.

This year, in summer, we teamed up with Fanatics and did a Yankees and Mets.

Nice.

New York-specific collection with them.

And then, honestly, just ramping up for the end of the year, we got some big hitters coming and then even falling into next year.

Were you at Fanatics Fest?

I did get to go, which was crazy.

And, like, they didn't even tell me that I was going to have, like, a build-out there.