" Combining contemporary menswear with street-ready sportswear, unyforme returns with an extensive new collection for Fall/Winter 2014. This time around, the New York label riffs on athletic staples like sweatshirts, sweatpants, tees and shorts, keeping things fresh with new fabric combinations, fits and clever detailing. Highlights from the offering include the quilted Striker Shorts, tapered Mesh Hammer Sweatpants, fishtail hem Tyson Hoodie and the mesh-and-cotton Wayne tee, along with new iterations of the Jones Collection staples. Also of note this season is a new collaboration with Frank Cooke's new Cooked Up imprint, resulting in short-sleeved hooded sweatshirts and cinch-bottom, quilted sweatpants made from two-tone chambray. Comfortable, timely and stylish, unyforme's Fall/Winter 2014 collection is available now at the HYPEBEAST Store."
Noah Caine for unyforme's Fall 2014 line. Shop now.
I dropped out of school to pursue my dream of becoming an NFL player after I finished my college career. Things didn't work out, so I enrolled back into school in Atlanta, GA. I worked two jobs, played the streets and clubs every night, and networked until I discovered how much I enjoy music.
I come from a pretty traditional family with a finite idea of what's deemed professional as far as a career is concerned. My heart's always been in art culture. Specifically the behind the scenes work that is show production, artist development, and marketing/branding. I've been pretty adamant about my feeling that experience in the field and mentorship trump the need for formal education. At least personally.
With encouragement from my family, and against the little voice in my head telling me I'd be gravely unhappy, I started school at my community college, studying music and education. A quarter of the way into my pursuit I convinced myself that I was pretty good with kids and would find it fulfilling to teach them & be the influence that my music instructors were to me. It's probably an easy guess that the little voice got louder and I quit. I actually kept it from my family for quite a while. During that time I was introduced to performance poetry and the open mic circuit. I was the door girl at a weekly event hosted at a hole in the wall restaurant before I even really had the courage to begin performing and learning the in's & out's.
Hopping from dead end job to dead end job was kind of my thing for years. I joke that this was my "coming out" period. As of this very moment, for the past two years, I've been producing my own unique vision of a platform for raw talent, named HOMEROOM, that has just gone multi-city seeing an expansion to Miami. Being a woman with ambition in an industry like that of entertainment, whether rookie or not, is a hill to get over in and of itself. However, I love the challenges, they provide their own kind of high.
Concert production is next on my mile-long list of things to check off.
CEO & Founder of the multi-city "Homeroom" artist showcase & networking event.
I can honestly say I've been lucky enough to enter numerous new and unfamiliar territories in my life. Whether it's my current job working at ESPN or taking the subway 3 hours everyday for 4 years so my mom could have that Brooklyn Tech diploma, there've been a lot of ups and downs but I'd like to think I've been successful in growing from them all.
At the age of 21, I left the only home I had ever known in New York to pursue a career that was known to have a rather high rate of failure due to the rigorous training it requires.
I decided it was time for me to step out of my comfort zone and make my mark in this world. There were various points in which I thought I couldn't make it and would end up coming back home as a failure. Luckily, I was able to persevere and progress through to the end of my training. Now I'm regarded as one of the best to do what I do and mentor younger individuals looking to make it in my profession in the United States Air Force.
Six-figures. That's all that repeated in my head for the entire night..
People work their entire lives and never make that much money in a year. I was 29 and walking away from it.
The prior year, on a whim, I decided to try stand-up comedy at an open mic. Perhaps the years spent being a caricature of myself in order to rise in the corporate setting had taken a toll on me. After endless hours spent kissing up to clients and bosses, I felt a visceral need to share my thoughts in the most unfiltered manner possible. And making people laugh in the process, was an added blessing.
That first performance went well, and for most people, would have been enough. But I continued, performing over 300 sets in the next year. Yearly projection reports, team meetings, and sales presentations took a backseat to amateur nights and bar stages. It became a thought that consumed me; this is what I'm suppose to do with my life.
So for an entire night, I practiced. I practiced telling my boss that I would be giving him my two-weeks notice. I practiced explaining that I found something that I needed to pursue, and that it was worth walking away from, what most people view as, success.