We are here today with Pete versus Toby a clothing line out of Australia, so can you state your names?
Whit Richardson – (PVT)
Marco Zirov – (Designer) (PVT)
Antoine Ryan – (PVT)
DEEPCOVER – How do you guys all know each other?
Marco (PVS) – Well Antoine and I grew up in the same town in Byron bay since we were little kids, so we’ve always known each other.
Antoine Ryan (PVS) – And I had a crush on his little sister ha-ha. She makes all the girls here look like 7’s.
Whit Richardson (PVT) – I could have got her if I wanted to ha-ha.
Marco (PVS) – None of you have a chance because you’re not black.
DEEPCOVER – So whose idea was it to start the brand?
Marco (PVS) – This guy right here in the picture on the wall playing the guitar on the boat.
DEEPCOVER – Really ha-ha, so where’s he at?
Marco (PVS) – I don’t even know, he’s probably chilling, drawing or painting somewhere.
Antoine (PVT) – He likes the drugs, ha-ha.
DEEPCOVR – So when did you guys get the idea to start the brand?
Marco (PVS) – 3 years ago, we jumped in the car and drove down to Sydney, which is like a 10 hr drive, and we started selling our tee’s in the markets. We did this for a year; we would drive down every weekend. Sell the shirts, then drive back print shirts for another week, and then drive back down and sell them. We did this for a straight year and we eventually got a big following in Sydney. And that’s how we got our confidence to quit our jobs we were just like fuck it lets do this.
DEEPOVER – Wow that’s very inspiring.
Marco (PVS) – Yeah, we were just so psyched on it and we knew it was something good.
DEEPCOVER – Can you tell us more about how the Australian government is helping your brand?
Marco (PVS) – Well because we’re making the shirts in Australia and printing them their, the Australian government loves that. There are sick of people getting it made in china and Thailand, so they’re like good on you boys for doing this, and they pay for half of everything.
Antoine Ryan (PVT) – And half of everything we lose on the card tables ha-ha.
Marco (PVS) – That’s right they’re paying for Antoine’s gambling habit ha-ha.
DEEPCOVER – Wow that’s great to get an incentive like that.
Antoine (PVT) – Yeah even local bands that come out to the U.S touring, there all suckling from the nipple of our government.
Marco (PVS) – The government does make it rain on everyone; even people who don’t need the money still get it.
DEEPCOVER – Is the cost of living down there more expensive then it would be in the U.S.
Marco (PVS) – It just depends on how you want to live. You can find rent for like 100 a month and the government will give you like 300-400 a month, so you can live really well and not even work. It could be negative because a lot of people end up doing nothing.
DEEPCOVER – What inspired some of your new designs?
Marco (PVS) – Pretty much everything, I hate religion, I hate government.
DEEPCOVER – Well the government seems to love you though ha-ha.
Marco (PVS) – Yeah I never even thought of that.
DEEPCOVER – Its ok we all love breast milk and suckling off nipples, would you compare your government to your parents bossing you around and telling what to do, but at the same time providing really well.
Marco (PVS) – Actually I get along really well with my parents, umm and actually are government is sweet too and I can’t complain. I shouldn’t say I hate our government I’m speaking more in terms of the whole world when it comes to what inspires my designs. I’m really trying to design stuff with more substance behind it, I’m sick of people making horrible tees with no substance or style to it.
DEEPCOVER – There’s a lot of company’s now that outsource different designers to create designs for their graphics what do you guys think about this and is this something you believe in?
Marco (PVS) – Well a good thing for us is that I have a lot of friends that are good artists and they don’t really like getting there art out and they’re really humble and just sit around painting, so through this were going to use it as a vehicle. Our t-shirts are like a blank canvas to get our friends art out there, because other wise they wouldn’t do anything.
DEEPCOVER – So you’re like the catalyst to get everyone up and start doing something with his or her life.
Marco (PVS) – Ever since I was younger people were always like, why is Marco so motivated? And I’ve always read stories like when Michael Jordan was little playing basketball, he was never the best player on the team, and that always showed me that anyone can do anything, and anyone can change. Everyone has two arms and two legs there’s no difference between any of us, if you want to do something you just have to put a bit of sacrifice and use a bit of your brain.
DEEPCOVER – So where would you like to see the progression of street wear go?
Marco (PVS) – Well were all young I’m 24, Antoine is 21, Whit’s 25 and were not looking in the past for inspiration, we don’t go around saying well let’s look at what happened in the 1980’s fuck that, why don’t we create something new, enough recycling. Although in Japan they call it up cycling, it’s getting something from the past and putting a modern spin on it, but it really fits the time now. I don’t know why that’s different then recycling, but the Japanese have a good eye for stuff like that, they can look at something that an American buyer won’t even look at, they can easily spot trends and see how it recycles.
DEEPCOVER – Yeah sometimes it doesn’t really matter where it came from, what’s really important is where you take it to and how you can re-create something and bring it to a different level.
Marco (PVT) – Yeah exactly
Marco (PVT) – Just with technology we have the ability to print on silk, and without technology we would have to the buy the silk separately and print on someone else’s fabric.
DEEPCOVER – So in Australia is there a magazine or blog that caters to the local sub culture in your area?
Marco (PVT) – In each city there are different area codes, for instance the area code in Sydney is 2000 and that would be their blog, Brisbane is 4000 Melbourne is 3000, and the blogs show you great places to eat, good places to shop, great galleries. For Sydney the site would be www.twothousand.com.au
Antoine Ryan (PVT) – And I just want to say that I’m really impressed with how you guys roll around and party and then throw huge things like this in Las Vegas, shit like this would be like the Olympics in Sydney.
Whit (PVT) – The Olympics of partying ha-ha.
Antoine Ryan (PVT) – Yeah win the Death atholon ha-ha.
DEEPCOVER – ha-ha oh shit, well there we have it Pete versus Tobey it was great talking to you guys maybe one day we can visit you in Australia.
Marco (PVT) – Definitely we will show you around.
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