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Opportunities such as Coachella, Bonnaroo, and very profitable events are endless when you are in a fashion festival. It may look like a money losing affair, and the casual trend will disappear – especially in the case of fraud, while the festival style is everywhere. These days, ranging from luxury brands such as Moschino’s fast fashion brands such as H&M and ASOS, both target and Kohl hypermarkets are being rolled out of collections.

In all the cash in the trend, there is a brand, in the way the game before others, it paid off: kill the doll, an e-commerce company in San Francisco has quietly through the creation of eccentric Fashion Festival participants to make money, clothing and the edge of desire and attract buyers unique the.

Founded in 2011, Shaudi Lynn and Bobby Farahi combination of husband and wife, kill the doll has established a cult to provide clothing you can hardly imagine: in each of the colors and patterns of eccentric platform, whimsical rainbow bags of clothes next to the small black open back and take the chain, spandex jumpsuits to furry vest (collocation or just socks), coat with a feather, hand writing on the mirror: “I fuck me,” sequined Booty Shorts, torture Tactic bear backpack, barbed wire necklace. Brands now have 1 million 300 thousand followers in Instagram, leaving messages on fans, “buddy.””… “If the shoes are not mine,” Miss Gaga, oh, daddy, please, “make it even more magical.”!” “Why do I need everything, your post?”

If you want to know more about who killed the customer, what kind of world belongs to you can go to Facebook page, but you will only keep the same SASS bite with your own clothes. The part of the brand story says only “junk technology, baby,” seven times; product descriptions provide a purely confusing, including “RAD” thing! A little bit of your drool. “The company outlined and explained its” inspiring youth culture today, yesterday and tomorrow. Follow suit soon, if you get angry easily.”

Farahi, the company’s 43 year old CEO, is able to explain dolls to kill personality better.

“The brand release [them] in the girls’ I don’t give a fuck,” said one afternoon in July from the headquarters of the company law was in San Francisco’s mission district. “It makes her express her personality,” she thought aloud. Each piece is striking and meaningful.”

The baby killing space is a huge warehouse that turns into an amazing style of office with employees, including many colorful hair, super broken jeans, and meticulously made up employees. In a conference room covered with graffiti and stickers, designers review the latest fall series, delving into an electric fur coat. The company’s product was taken in an indoor studio in the back of the office, next to a shoe cabinet filled with colorful platform boots, and the ceiling looked like a home where only the spice girls were present. Just in the middle of the office is decorated with a wall full of comics and thoughts into the company’s slogan of giant decals, like “Da Misfits” “,” “trouble”, “dude,” and, of course, the ultimate brand pet phrase: “don’t give a fuck”.

Killing clothes from dolls has become the favorite of the festival attendees; it keeps events like fire collectors, and prices hover around the average range of fast fashion. As expected, giving Cosplay the brand’s affinity, Halloween is the most profitable time of the year. In addition to the exquisite kimono caught in the nets, riotous with colour dreadlocks, tie pants, all cater to customers looking for a luxury or burden of a particular event, doll kill also sell clothing to the edge is the amount of daily found its sweet spot.

In the previous life, Farahi opened a broadcast monitoring service business, called it. After he sold the company 2005, he found himself hanging on the scene of LA’s revelry and partying. There, he met Lene, his wife, he is a DJ person name shoddy. Farahi notes that she not only has a eclectic style, she can also choose from quirky and unique works of random shops to make them available on ebay.

She always said, “if there is a place that is a combination of all these outstanding works, isn’t that great?”” “Let’s start talking,” he said. “We have taken these underground counterculture in fashion and commercialize them in a way that makes them easier to approach and alienated from the real person. We killed the real Gothic shopping in dolls, but at the same time won’t walk into the store girl.”

The company started by selling accessories like fluffy key chains, but later expanded to sell clothing from third party suppliers. Or a dish, shoddy with her social media attention to promote the rapid growth of the company, the audience. They use customer models and sales stream. 2014, when Recode reported that the company had been pulled out of $15 million in sales, the baby murder was named by the San Francisco business times as the fastest growing private sector in the Gulf region this year, up 3342% in three years. (dolls don’t share the current sales figures, but financial director Jon Dussel says the company’s sales have doubled over the same period last year.)

The uncanny core of the doll’s killing is the “doll” push, or different iterations, which creates an emotional style based on shoddy and her friends. There are Kandi, spark a child, always dripping color, there are a lot of rainbow, the clothing and sequins, lamp; and cocoa, “array of female robot is highly active and fashionable new millennium pure pink T-shirt; pity is” dangerous darkness, love all the leather, “her clothing the Gothic style is full; the brand Willow typical of the spirit of freedom and” leisurely style and the eyes of the best grass, “who wore costumes throughout the year; punk girl Darby will” steal from you knock it down, “her style is garbage and rock. Brand to allow customers to browse and shop without these dolls of the lens, there are some websites on the basis of staples and (like Levi’s, Martens and Wildfox, Dr. Farahi said, but the brand) kill customers enjoy the hobby weird doll.

“We’re the only family that really makes dresses for her,” he said. “Our customers might shop at a store that’s always 21, but she’s going home and tearing off the label because the company doesn’t represent her.”. No one is a real way for her, when the brand tries, it is unreal.”

The authenticity of the law attribute of the doll’s personality part was killed is a company not just profit sub love Goth, carnival, or electric spark – this is actually embedded in it by its employees. When Queen Bee paved the way for the carnival DJ, many of the company’s 100 employees were active at the festival. “It’s true that the online shopping of the crowded land separates companies,” according to Rebecca Kaden, a partner of Vc firm Maveron, which is an investor in baby killing.

“The dolls killed the superpowers to build not just a business platform, but a brand and community, and part of their customers feel they’ve been integrated into their girl’s heart,” Kaden said. As a brand, they have a deep understanding of their core customers’ wishes, both expressing their individuality in all parts of their lives, while feeling part of something. Combining consumer sympathy and understanding is an excellent product and their secret is what drives their growth.”

A lot of people are weird and weird vibes, dolls that killed the early days of Nasty Gal (brands crashed and burned and helped bail out crying before bankruptcy). This assessment is not everything, considering the purchase of director doll killed, Christina Ferrucci, is employee number 1 at Nasty Gal and doll kill creative director Paul Trapani staff number 2. In the past two years, Ferrucci dolls to help kill internal branding like mood now, sugar thrillz, and the X club, rotating it buy wholesale to fully control the design business.

“I love Nasty Gal at the beginning of how strange it is, how it connects with its customers, and how it is not willing to anything other than real,” he says. “Everything has changed, it’s obvious, but what do I think that looks like?”

“All of the brands that make holiday styles are designed because they think they exist.” She continued. “They’re just trying to get into Bohemia because they think they need it. We’re fucking basically basically like diving boards, all jumping. We decide what the trend will be like in Coachella, which is the trend, which is really being allocated to this world. We say, ‘Hey, we’re just as a guarantee for ASOS, but listen, we’ve spent a lot of thought, we orchestrated you, and our authority.”

All the dolls kill success as a niche favorite, admitted Ferrucci the next phase of its growth and must include access to new customers: “we have done a good job to get it there, in our current customer base before, who is like,” oh my God, this is my dream. But we haven’t done a lot of work, even people who have never heard of us, or capture their attention.”

To successfully grow (a venture capital backed company, after all, it raised $10 million 900 thousand in three fundraising rounds), the baby killer is ready to go mainstream if it’s only minor. In July, it launched a poster, a clothing brand, like Kanye West and Kylie Jenner style, feel soft and long, Sweatshirt Hoodie dress. The average way shoppers dress is more approachable than sex, and the Lolita style is stylish for the rest of the site. Jumping off the new collection, baby kill will launch sixth dolls in November, with this style. The doll will be named mia, she will “selfie” street savvy and aware of her aesthetic “cool and comfortable, sexy street, thoughtfully provocative.”

He says the new direction still and anti system attitude of fan favorite brand: “yes, we said, ‘let’s do dress. But we also say, “let’s calm down.”. Just fuck it and make it strange.” However, she admits that being approachable is an unavoidable step for the company.

“We don’t care about the trend, but as we grow up, we need to get bigger and stay ahead of the business and we have to be more aggressive,” she says. “I think that’s good.”.”. “But that will still limit.”

The growing doll kills other parts of the play and is its first step to brick and mortar. In August 19th, the company opened its first store in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco (because there would be one elsewhere?). Now, the company says location pop-up will be on Halloween, but Farahi says he sees several fixed stores in the company’s future. Even if its core customers are looking for holiday equipment or Halloween costume, he believes there is such a quirky brand in the market that there is a physical location in the space. A physical storage location also gives brands better access to mainstream customers.

The plan to kill between dolls expands its size, adds offerings and collects posters for the future, and the brand is guaranteed to reach more traditional shoppers. Farahi, one of the typical brands that feel typical of customers, is inherently eccentric, but begins to integrate into pop culture, which of course works baby killing advantages.

“Ten years ago, cool girls were wearing the same Abercrombie signs or something, because there was a sense that you needed to be like other cool girls,” he said.”. “Now, express your personality in cool ways.”. Look at how many girls have colored hair, you see, now and five years ago. So I think the change is happening all the time.”

But will the strange shops of the Internet really become mainstream? This is a good balance, baby kill will play. Reaching more people is necessary, but to reach a point where their core customers feel alienated by the “sold” brand will not be too good. “Our clients can smell nonsense,” Ferrucci says. “It doesn’t mean they have a lot of bites.”

Now, Farahi isn’t worried. At the end of the day, baby killing is not for everyone. Sequins, platforms, and leather may be a bit more than a bit, and perhaps others will not be close to understanding half of it. Frankly speaking, everyone in the company is good. Or, put it in more precise terms, and they say, “just don’t give it shit.”