New year sale on poom-poom shorts and off-the-shoulder tees!
Four months ago, Julian Wilson released the debut clothing range of his brand Rivvia Projects, the handle a portmanteaux of the names of his two kids River and Olivia.
Rivvia Projects is an “an expression of myself, really, and all the things I’m into and passionate about,” Wilson told Monster Children, listing his favourite things as golfing, motorbiking, skating, and mountain bike riding.
Wilson, who is thirty-four, followed Kelly Slater, Dane Reynolds/Craig Anderson, John John Florence, Luke Egan into the rag-trade, Slater (Outerknown) Reynolds’ and Ando with Former, John John Florence (Florence Marine X) and Egan with Depactus, a brand that flew a little too close to the sun before the glue holding its wings melted and it was bought for a song by SurfStitch.
You’ll remember the hoo-ha back in 2020, of course, when Wilson, a former world #2 and Pipe Master, sued his old sponsor Hurley for $US1.5 million claiming they’d become “increasingly toxic” in the professional surfing world and that “Hurley [sought] to profit from the worldwide health pandemic” by claiming that he’d breached his contract by not participating in surf contests that were cancelled due to COVID-19.
As the lovely college boy Cedar Hobbs reported,
The complaint claims that “at the time . . . ‘Bluestar [was] reportedly looking for loopholes in contracts for even the most high-profile athletes to use as leverage to renegotiate terms.’”
Anyway, water under the bridge, as they say and Rivvia, which occupies the classic medium price point space, has soared beyond any imagination.
Hoodies are sixty dollars, Australian, instead of a c-note, the trunks fifty-ish instead of ninety.
https://youtu.be/c3RsFDbyo4s
Of all things he makes John’s board shorts might be the worst. Fuckin zipper will corrode off within a few months of use.
Regular shorts are pretty ace though
Hahaha fatties = 34 inches and up. Love it.
A collab sustainable catalog/international mailer with Outerknown back in October would’ve been the smart move for sure… I’m somewhere between a 36 and 37 these days… anything for aging fatties with declining wave riding ability on sale?…
Yea fuck So Cal and the ranch. Never had any interest in surfing waist high gutless waves. I’m a Democrat but not a communist. If Ralph Nader had not run in 2000 Al Gore would have won not George Bush.
Same with Bernie Sanders in 2016.
A New England Ralph Nader wannabe, that thinks government should control and regulate everything, even who surfs where .
He’s a dude
Making quite the resurgence right now too.
I think Eesha is Sam’s illegitimate son.
What makes Dereck almost always having to take a lead in to a story and turn it into almost a x-rated piece—kind of a turn off and not really too good for BG I think.
Rivvia needs to follow Billabung into the lucrative collab market. I’m thinking a Rivvia x Nickleback collab would be appropriate
Side effects include…
Don’t think target wants / needs them?
Probably could actually look into Depactus as Luke’s business partner spent 600k of the companies money on a extension on his own house. Also JW doesn’t own it all. He has business partners Jamahel Grey and a few others who work in it. Good luck in selling any surf clothing.
https://media2.giphy.com/me…
Even Shannon North just tried to buy Billabong for peanuts just recently. He also sold a heap of excess stock of Xcell and Da Kine to Sideways on the Gold Coast as it was not selling. Just proves how dead the industry is. We had a black Friday sale up this way and the Surfboard Empire apparently were selling 2 boards for the price of 1. That sounds crazy. If you can’t sell a board in summer your the industry is in trouble.
I get the pulse of the industry from the lack of interest in my used boards on Craigslist.
Same it’s a fuckin travesty compared to 24 months ago.
I just brought a non descript cotton t and wrote “surf” on it with a fabric pen , looks a treat , I might start a brand Ramjet designed by a fuckwit for no cunt.
Free delivery and I’m your first customer.
It’s the brand and signature for 23!!!
Pretty sure thats how Dane got his start as well.
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Da J!
Is that for Thanks Giving camp outs?
Perfect! Everybody do a clothing start up. You,and you, and you….
I took a hefty risk in textiles. MAKE SOME STUFF!
weddings are dead on arrival \ your agency
On the main page of the site – “Research + Development by Julian Wilson”
lol can you imagine Julian doing any sort of “research”? Gotta be just screenshotting Instagram pages of other companies, sending it to his design team and saying “ya this looks sick”.
How’s his line of organic face cream going, or his YouTube channel?
They’ll be at the discount outlets soon enough for half the “sale” price.
If you are paying with American dollars they already are!!