Joshua Vides

I'm sure you've seen a lot of people come and go in this space.

Yeah, I mean...

You can kind of tell who's got it and who's here because they want to be here.

Right.

And then there's a lot of guys who, like, just pop in, and you can kind of sense it.

It's like, you're not here because they want to be here.

You're here for money.

You're here for money.

Yeah.

You know, you're making bedazzled vintage T-shirts right now because you think you could sell some instead of, like, really caring about it.

Yeah.

It's easy to get lost in what's hot right now.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, dude, 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 have 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 end up like, oh, it's just there's so much access.

now yeah you know 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 wow this dude's making cut and sew shorts like it's it's it's really cool to see but also it's like shocking yeah i'm like you look like you've been a brand for 10 years and he's like no man