Bomb Story: When you look at designers' moodboards, they rip their references from past designs or popular trends. It's often very literal. Bobby worked a little differently in designing The Hundreds. Much of his inspiration is sourced from emotion and nostalgia. It's more about channeling a specific feeling and trying to replicate that in a modern context. A good example of that is the sound of the ice cream truck roving down the street. No matter how old you get, that jingle and the call of neighborhood children are like a time machine, evoking a particular sentimentality not often found elsewhere. There's also something hilarious about those derpy licensed-cartoon ice cream bars that never look as accurate as their packaging markets. | Background Story:
If there was ever a pattern that encapsulated The Hundreds, it would be Paisley. Our first big hit, the one that put us on the map, was the all-over-print Paisley hoodie from 2005. There's an unabridged version of this story in Bobby's book, but that sweatshirt sold so much, and sold out so quickly overnight, that we allocated all of those funds to building our first flagship retail store on the corner of Fairfax and Rosewood. The pattern was designed in 2004, on a lesser-remembered piece called the ""Bandana"" zip-up. Over the years, those clusters of buta droplets continued onto The Hundreds T-shirts, across cut-n-sew collections, New Era fitteds, and collaborations with artists. The Paisley print not only defined us, but greater streetwear, as it trickled down into the work of later brands and designers.
