Thursday, April 22, 2010

After a small hiatus....




Hello again,
yes it has been quite a while since my last blog post, but things have been getting quite hectic in my "schedule", i use that term lightly so as not to take myself too seriously, and i've been in a trance like state for the past week and a half just trying to get things done without collapsing!
Anyways I'll jump right to it, many events have been going on in the rude circuit that have got my brain jumping back and forth; specifically going to the Benny Gold grand opening. I must say it was quite bizarre the way fate seemed to intervene at every possible moment in the evening, but I won't get into the details of that. I will say however that I, daryn and frank were able to talk to some amazing people and hear some really helpful feedback. I, especially, was able to hear about the struggles of creating a women's line. Now i know there is some speculation as to where the women's wear is going, and if we're targeting the right audience, but please, please, please believe in us, we want just as badly as everyone else to create something unique that targets women specifically! After all it is my main goal in this company to give the female customers an equal say in what we produce as well as a strong voice in what we put into this brand. The amount of passion that we have in this will reflect in the clothes we put out, and I know you ladies out there will enjoy it just as much as the guys!
until then i'd just like to throw out a cute trend that i'm warming up to....bow ties for girls! i've always liked bow ties on guys but i've also been finding that some girls like to wear them as well, and i'm not so sure thats such a bad idea. Now we wouldn't wear them the traditional male way, but throw them on long chains and create a sort of necklace
out of them...just an idea I thought I'd throw out to whomever is reading this. So lemme know what you think
love always
ali rude

Thursday, April 8, 2010

round two


Hello again, i'm trying to get in the habit of writing a blog so hopefully i'll get a couple of these out a week if the inner procrastinator in me doesn't completely take over. I started my spring quarter and already i'm feeling a little overwhelmed, but hopefully everything will go as planned and I can get out of where I am now! But as of right now its been a bit problematic for the rudes to arrange meetings considering all three of our busy schedules, but we are consistently throwing ideas back and forth whenever we can. But to who ever is reading this consider this my open invitation to chime in on any ideas you may have. As of right now i've really been trying to gain inspiration from things involving debutants (hence the rudetant thought process), and cotillion themes and such, but I really want to incorporate some kind of musical inspiration in some graphics i just haven't been able to figure out exactly how yet. As of right now we're focusing on some summery ideas to get that line out soon, so you'll be seeing some new themes coming your way so get excited and support by checking out the online store! Before I pass out on my keyboard i'm going to end this post, if I end up doing something interesting this weekend i'll post a nice lil story but until then goodnight my little rudes!

ali rude

Sunday, April 4, 2010

FIRST OF MANY

Hello fellow rude debs and gents,
For the past few minutes I have been staring blankly at my computer screen at this box trying to have some random stroke of genius to write some purely poetic first blog post, and unfortunately by doing nothing....nothing happened. So I put on my favorite song, listened to the rain outside and just theoretically put pen to paper. So as you may have already concluded, I am not the best at communicating, just ask any guy I have ever dated. But I am going to try REALLY hard to express just as eloquently as I possibly can, what my outlook for this venture truly is. Firstly, I suppose I should illustrate just what this venture actually is. Specifically on January 12, 2010 my friends/business partners; Daryn Frank and myself, began setting the wheels in motion to create a clothing brand that mixes all three of our senses of clothing and lifestyles, and in doing so created Rude Etiquette. So far its been a mixture of classic style with a casual street wear feel. We've been finding different inspiration out of all kinds of different outlets, and in the past three months we have been able to produce three different styles of Tee's, Frankly Rude has been able to create an incredible website for the Rude fans to access, and Daryn has been the driving force behind the whole operation. But through out this, I have been feeling a little like I haven't been able to make such a strong contribution, and really voice the Women's point of view as...being the only woman in the group, i feel obliged to do. So here's this blog that I have created to do just that, and also give you little rude's a better idea of just who I am. So to put in short, I'm a 19 year old college student majoring in Theater (what else), balancing work and play, and just like every person my age, trying to define who I am and exactly who I want to become. That's why this brand has been such a great adventure, I have been so fortunate to find two people that I feel comfortable enough to share my creative perspective with, and create something that is bigger then myself. Because when it comes down to it, everyone wants to know that they have created something that shares a bit of themselves to the world in general, to know they've created something everlasting and permanent. And to me, thats what this brand is about, and thats what I want to contribute to it; a little bit of myself, my personality, to everyone else, and that is what I want to create with the women's wear line. I must tell you however that the TRUE women's wear line will be a little more slow developing then everything else as we are trying to create a brand and are still trying to get our name out there, but I have so many ideas floating around in my abnormally large head and I absolutely cannot wait to see them come to fruition, and am open to any ideas that you as readers, fans, rude's, and friends may have. I have absolute faith that all of the aspirations that our Rude team has for this brand will come true and am so looking forward to seeing that happen. So there it is, the first Rudetant post from Ali Rude about to be sent into the vast community of outerspace, and I must say I am a little nervous. So thank you so much for reading this and I hope you look forward to more of these to come.
Always yours,
ali rude
p.s thanks again van morrison for once again SAVING MY ASS!!