Last summer I bought this amazing shirt.
Only it was more than shirt because you could button it or zip it up. My friend Teddy dubbed it a “shacket.”
Which of course is a combination between shirt and jacket. Teddy’s very smart. It was olive green, made of a light cotton twill. I have no idea if that’s true about the cotton twill but it sounds good. In fact, I have no idea if there’s such a thing as cotton twill. In any regard, I lost the shacket. Don’t know where. Somewhere. It’s gone. My suspicion is that it’s in Los Angeles. I probably left it in a Starbucks. I loved that shacket. It was a major conversation piece. So, last week I went back to the place where I bought it, a small store on Smith Street called Watt. Watt sells cool men’s clothes like Ben Sherman and Built By Wendy. I described the shacket to them. They remembered it and said that the company who made it, Indigo People, had gone out-of-business. They said that they’d check their storage to see if they had any but that they doubted it and that I was probably out of luck. So, a few days went by, I hadn’t heard from the folks at Watt. I called them. They told me that they didn’t find one in storage. They told me I’m out-of-luck. On a lark I Google “Indigo People.” I get their website. It’s got a phone number on it. I call the number.
“Hello?”
“Uh…hello…is this Indigo People?” I say.
“Uh…yeah?” The guy on the other end has an Asian accent. He sounds suspicious.
“Is this…are you…Indigo People?”
“Yeah. That’s me.”
“Really? You’re Siri?” The people at Watt told me that the designer behind Indigo People was named Siri.
“What do you want?” He says.
“Could I have just a few minutes of your time?”
“Uh…I guess.”
He listens to me. I tell him about losing the shacket. To make a long story short, he invites me to his studio on Canal Street, in Chinatown. I go to his studio. It’s really cool. He has bodices and fabrics. He tells me a bit about himself. He’s from Thailand. He went to art school there for theatrical costume design but switched over. He has one olive green shacket left. He told me that he made six of them total. He’s also got it in grey, black, and tan. I buy an olive green one and a grey one. (He gave me a great discount.) All of his clothes are unique: jackets; sweatshirts; button down shirts; pants; shorts; t-shirts. Lots of interesting patterns and fabrics. He tells me about his new collection which is influenced by a Viennese architect named Josef Hoffman whose work was influenced by Indonesian patterns. I asked him if he bought his fabrics at Mood (I learned about Mood from watching Project Runway.) He said, some of them. I felt very in the know. I highly recommend keeping an eye out for his clothes. His label is called Indigo People.
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I don’t know if you know this already (why not — everyone else does!), but I love you for watching “Project Runway” and I doubly love you for being label-conscious and supporting new designers.
Yay!
What she said.
This is what sucks about not living in a big city…if I saw something here I liked that was discontinued , I’d most likely be sent to a warehouse in Sri Lanka or to the line at customer service:/
umm…Michael…I think it’s http://www.indigopeople.net
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