![]() We’re subconsciously being fed all of these things that may or may not be good for you, so we’re just reflecting it back, putting up a mirror and letting you interpret it. Original cast members Ray J (top), Omarion (middle) and Soulja Boy (below) are original cast members on Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood. “It’s really a tug of war between choices that we make, what we’re fed from the media, what we see every day on television, what we hear in music. “A lot of it discusses subliminal messaging - the battle between light and dark,” Campbell says. Printed or embroidered words are centerpieces of the brand’s aesthetic. You might describe a Freak City piece as cheeky. There are neon signs, obscure references taped to the wall, layers and layers of fabric in every loud or bright shade of color and print imaginable. Walk into Freak City’s showroom today, and it feels like taking a walk through the pair’s shared psyche, or the sickest party you could ever go to in 2011. For a while, they became known for their high-fashion knock-offs - think Louis Vuitton monogram bikinis - that in a zoomed out way were a rebellion against luxury capitalism. By the late 2010s, the gatherings had taken a backseat to the designs, but the party lived on through the clothing. They created clothes with the party in mind - what would stand out in the dark, what would capture the kind of maximalist indie club kid energy of the scene they etched out in the city. They had a shop inside their parties nicknamed the Jewel Box, where people would congregate. “The story is school girl meets street boy,” says Romero.įrom the jump, Romero and Campbell collected vintage, made apparel, sold merch and jewelry. ![]() At the time they met, Campbell was studying art at Occidental College. And Campbell, who grew up in different parts of the Valley (hence her nickname, bestowed by Romero) was an art kid in a mixed Native American and Japanese household, who started making jewelry when she was 6. Romero is from the East Side, raised in a Mexican American family he spent much of his youth in underground hip-hop and rave scenes as a break dancer, graffiti writer and rapper. But the energy was equal in a balanced, strange way. “From a different part of L.A., different reality, different dimension. “It was like meeting a different version of yourself,” Romero says. ![]() They were both wearing handmade shirts, with matching hearts sewn onto them. Romero remembers seeing Campbell and feeling an inexplicable pull toward her. Campbell and Romero met when they were both 19, at a shoe store in Old Pasadena, where Romero was working at the time.
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