Threw my adventures in Atlanta I come across many streetwear crews and young innovative designers. Yes I keep a very low profile when I’m in the A, but I see it all. The streetwear game is real crowded now a days, seems like brands are popping up every 30 seconds and very rarely do I come across a line that creates trends and takes time to make quality pieces for the hype beast out there to chase. When you have the kids searching for your pieces and know nothing about the brand--your doing something right! Your looking at a group of young entrepreneurs here. Come Up Kids say “hello!” to Fli Pelican…What is the name of your line and where did it originate from?
Fli symbolizes not just our style but our state of mind and Pelican symbolizes our self-less ness because we are always ready to help one another in time of need.
What made you want to design a fashion line?
Our love of fashion in general, and we also wanted to have a tangible representation of our lifestyles.
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What are your signature designs?
The Good Life which sold out within 30mins of us releasing it at our party, Money Hoes and Clothes, and the Fli Pelican Fli.
What's your favorite piece from any of your collections?
Money, Hoes and clothes because it's the essence of life! Lol no because it's a great Biggie line and it's a real attention getter. Everyone who wears theirs always tells us that people stop them in the street asking where they got it from.
How would you describe your work?
If we could sum it up in one word it would probably be, dope! And the reason for that is that, it's whatever we want to do, so we can be as creative and spontaneous as we want with our line.
What's your ultimate goal?Our ultimate goal is World wide recognition for us and the movement that we are a part of in the A. As far as our clothing we would love to see it go from t-shirts to a full line, including cut and sew pieces, outerwear, denim, accessories, etc.
What inspires you?
Fast cars, pretty women, and lump sums of money would probably be our top three…lol but after that we would have to say our inspiration is quite vast, it comes from anywhere and everything.
Can fashion still have a political ambition?
Yea definitely, that's why many companies these days create lifestyle brands.
Is the idea of creative collaboration important to you?
Yes, it's amazing when brands can come together can create something fresh and new together that they may have not been capable of doing by themselves. In our eyes collaboration is a melding of two or more elements to create a new product, so it's more than just slapping logos on a shirt and calling it a day. The Hundreds and Crooks did a collaboration tee once and it was dope because you could look at the shirt and see the elements of both brands fused together even without seeing their names. We actually have our first collaboration shirt to be released with Perishable Fame on the 26th of March at Compound.
What's your definition of beauty?
Whatever intrigues the soul, be it physical or beyond.
What's your philosophy?
One should always be governed by loyalty and guided by faith.
Have you ever been influenced or moved by the reaction to your designs?
All the time, we may make the clothes with us in mind but we also want it to appeal to that masses, so when someone says to us, "I gotta cop me some of that" or "Yall are gonna make it", or a host of other things, we are definitely moved by that.
What is the most important lesson that you've learned?
Stay humble and stay timeless. We want to be the kind of people that you can always come up and talk to and chill with no matter if we are making millions one day and we want our clothes to be something you could throw on a couple years from now and it still goes hard in the paint…ha-ha.
As a designer, who do you wear and what's in your closet?
We only wear Fli pelican everyday all day these days with either nudies, Levis, Acne, APC, Ksubis, Nikes,and Vans (especially authentic), etc…but we are still big fans of brands like The Hundreds, Huf, Stussy and brands like Chilly O, Plush357, Street local, Brave Bernard, Perishable Fame, OveRaideD, and all of the local brands that are doing their thing.
What can the public expect from your line in the future?
More dope designs, more events, more collaborations, we just have a lot more surprises in store fa that ass!
When and where can the public purchase pieces from your collection?
Right Motherfuckin now! And from us Bitches!…lol but you can check LavishLifeSocialClub, Fli Pelican Myspace, and hit us at flipelicanclothing@gmail.com or our creative sales manager Mums FP 404.519.0167 if you want to place an order!
photos courtesy of Hannibal
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