LA model - Julia

Photographer: Rose Wang

Make-up / hair: Ashley Shi

Stylist: Branden Ruiz

Talent from LA Models: Julia Bhansali

summer is over/ hello Fall

photographer: Nathan Martinez                                           

 model: Ruth Ferguson                                           

 stylist: Corinne Loperfido                                          

  stylist assistant: Branden Ruiz aka me 

Summer was a big crazy ride.

It was my birthday I turned 19. Did some shoots, modeled,styled and helped assistant a lot.

I love the fashion industry sometimes when I met the beautiful people.

this was my last summer shoot. Fall is starting soon.

I had went to agenda, connect with a few brands, I met hey parker, styled someone up for their podcast, I met some amazing people, held glitter death open, threw a pop-up for my friend Adan, and I had did a studio on set shoot with Mynxii White.

Im currently looking for more stuff to do while I attend fashion school.

Thank you Corinne for letting us do a shoot and have some fun.

please let me know if you want to work with me

you can always email me so we can have some fun and play around 

xoxo

p . s

the pictures we did for Corinne will come out very soon!!!

JumpFromPaper part 1 shoot

JUMPFROMPAPER 

Our friend from Jumpfrompaper gifted us with bags from their brand! 

We had only shot 4 of them which came out really perfect thanks to the dream team! 

everyone was excited to shoot and we all loved the looks and style that went with it.

currently still need to do more photoshoots for this bag brand company so if anyone wants to collaborated just hit me up! thanks again everyone on the team for helping me out on the photoshoot.

;) 

photographer: Nathan Martinez ( @localantichrist )

stylist : Branden Ruiz ( @psychiatriccward aka me )

make up artist: Allen Vazquez ( @psychotic_betty69 ) 

models: Amoura Gonzales ( @fuckinlame ) 

Aileen Hernandez ( @aileenhernandez_ )

Collaboration: Clairffee X Psychiatriccward blog post

Let’s go Fashion Green

By: Branden Ruiz & Claire Jane

“Sweatshop Free” is a term in which American Apparel used to describe their labor conditions. Sadly, the famous LA-based brand declared bankruptcy and has shut down most, if not all, their stores. But what exactly does the term “Sweatshop Free” mean? From the clothing racks in big brand stores to your closet, have you ever wondered how these articles of clothing originated? The answer is sweatshops. Sweatshops are factories that have tons of workers that are working poorly in a bad environment.

Don’t think low priced jeans at your local H&M is a total bargain, because behind the scenes say otherwise. It’s actually sketchy as fuck! Reading into the working conditions and low wages, you’ll find that they also employ (if you can call it employ), children under 18. They work long hours, but don’t nearly get paid enough to help support their families.

Big brands from the malls, don’t always have sweatshops mainly from overseas. Even though companies may say they are made in “The USA”, but there are sweatshops based in America. From prisons, inmates are forced to work in a factory making products all day with earning either no money or “pennies on the dollar.” With a simple Google search, you can find out which brands have used cheap labor to be able to sell you a product. You’d be surprised.

We want to introduce you to how f*cked up the fashion industry really is. Sweatshops have been a big problem for our environment. Known as “fast fashion” big companies steal designs from high fashion brand runways and the local artists that independently handmade products for their (big companies) own benefit. Fun Fact: big companies make millions of clothing and half of it will go to the trash while people think it is okay!! But is it really okay? REALLY? We should take action on where we are dropping all of these clothes! Our world isn’t a dumpster!

Although, people make clothes by themselves or overseas, there’s also recycling clothes! You can go to your local thrift shop, like a Goodwill. For those of you who usually shopping online, now so you can go on Depop where people usually sells their re-use clothes! By no means are we trying to shame those who buy from big companies, it’s actually inevitable. Not only does cheap labor exist in the fashion industry, but also in our food supply. We’re just asking you to be cautious and understand that smaller independent brands need to be praised and recognized more often for their ethical fashion.  

These are some stores that are sweatshop free that worked so hard on making their clothing store.

• · Macymarie
• · Wackywacko
• · Glitter Death / Rio Warner
• · Whatevernbd
• · www.casablancask.com
• · MarinaFINI
• · Devowevo
• · Freddy Rojas
• · Mujerista Market
• · Shop Desert Moon
• · Marina Fini
• · Nikkilipstick
• · Laser Kitten
• · Tack

· There’s a lot more local artists out there just search them up and make sure you support them!