×history of eerie
This is how EERIE Clothing all started...
Once upon a time in the year 2003 I was sitting in my Geography class at this wonderful school above (Upland High School) doing a whole lot of learning (not) when I was thinking on what I really wanted to do in my life. It seemed like everyone else knew what they wanted to do for the rest of there lives but I really had no idea. As I sat there and thought of what I really like to do I came up with the idea of starting a clothing company.
This idea slowly started to become reality as I worked on the name and logo. At this time I was only a Freshman in high school and no one really had their own clothing company unlike now. I came up with the name of eerie when I was looking through the dictionary one day in class. My art has never really been normal so I seemed eerie best suited the company.
The first shirts ever done was actually me drawing on them with sharpie. I did not sell any of those it was more for myself and to get people to see it. I also started to do iron ons. I did not have enough money at the time to get traditional shirts printed because I did not have a job so money was slim to none. I started designing more and more and pretty much all the things I drew up was a shirt design. I was looking into getting shirts printed but my parents thought it would be better to just buy a screen printer and do it myself.
Once I got my printer by this time I had tons of designs that were pretty much ready to print and it was my junior year. I started printing shirts and selling that at my school to friends and also shows. I sponsored some bands and sold them at there shows for awhile. I also was printing shirts for other people to make some more money to help pay my machine off.
I started to go to the Art Institute of Orange County right after I graduated and focused more and more on EERIE. A lot of shirt designs were made but only a few were printed because college was my main focus and then came EERIE.
Today I am still attending Ai and became really close friends with Anenberg clothing when I started interning for them. They have helped me in many ways and even Zoris Apparel has helped me in this new line holiday line. I thank all of you guys that have stuck by me and helped me through tough times.
I thank my family, my friends, eerie supporters, Anenberg, 24seven habiliments, and Zoris Apparel. You are the best.
..eerie.mikee..