Noirfancy hooks up with Union Los Angeles owner Chris Gibbs to talk about his history, background, his starting in the industry and much more. The interview from That’s Not Me Bro is very long and a bit all over the place, yet we cannot remember many interviews with the man that go so far back. Gibbs talks about interviewing with James Jebbia from Supreme, starting to work at Union New York, becoming a buyer and finally taking over many years later Union Los Angeles. They touch on Erik Brunetti and FUCT. Gibbs tells a great story about how Banksy tried to sell t-shirts to Union New York in 1998/99. He speaks about skateboarding, getting to know Supreme, Bape, Stussy and other brands. It is just a great in-depth piece that you should definitely check out. A nice ride through some of the history of streetwear and much, much more. Sit back, listen and learn.

Listen to the full interview here below.

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In an interesting team-up, Union Los Angeles gets together with marketing master Reggieknow for “Mousetrap”, a video lookbook for the Union LA and Fashion Figure Inc. collaboration. Chris and Reggieknow both star in the short, which is part film and part guerilla lookbook for their t-shirt and shoe collaboration, collector vintage Fila and 80’s style.

““Mousetrap” is a Carte Blanche agency produced film headed by Kwesi Thomas and directed by Reggieknow. Reggieknow describes the plot as a cheesy 2011 love story told in a 1986 fashion. The films begins when Chris and Reggieknow unexpectedly meet the leader of the “Mousetrap Club” The lead “mousetrapketeer” has a business of her own with no interest in Chris at first. She distracts Chris from his loyal worker Reggieknow who wants to expand the Union L.A. business by adding Fashion Figure Inc. to their lists of operations, an idea that parallels their real life collaboration. Chris invites the “mousetrapketeers” over to his “trap house” (a street term for where one runs illegal business) where the courtship continues with the company of more “mousetrapketeers”.

We have said enough, you just have to watch it. Enjoy!

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