What’s up everybody it’s going to be a great day it is Friday I cannot complain the end of the week don’t want to be flagged today I’m actually going to stuff for Greeks they actually fixed my jacket that they made me to change the colors
Of the USC on there so we don’t go there and we’re actually gonna get some behind-the-scenes footage we’re actually gonna go in there show y’all around so if you ever come to Atlanta you know you can stop by stuff for Greeks to see what they all about I’m also going into work
Today so I’m taking y’all with me so let’s go Okay now that I meet here I’m gonna show you all around a little bit And that’s pretty much my floor well guys that is a day’s worth of work done is Friday seem like today just went by so so slow but anyway by the head to stuff for Greeks pick up my jacket talk to them so y’all some behind the scenes
So I hope y’all like it I hope y’all enjoy it and we bout to head on out and see what’s up so one thing I don’t like about Atlanta is the commute time the commute time like I’m going three miles taking me 18 minutes to go three miles
I’m Ethan King founder CEO of Zeus’s closet and stuff for Greeks how are you Greek affiliated or yeah I’m a new kept outside okay alright now when did you cross it we’re so 498 say it out Jota chapter you GL we started I was a graphic design company we do like logos
And stuff and branding for clients and then we started stuff for Greeks just kind of as a side project like a spin-off website just because of our passion for fraternities and sororities and that ended up taking off and we were getting orders from across the country
And that we just devoted all of our attention to stuff for Greeks so after a few years of working out of our home basement we decided to open Susan’s closet in 2009 and so now we’re on our second location you know things are looking pretty good
We say it like this like anybody can put your letters on a shirt you know we do that too but that’s not really what makes us sing it’s all about making you a masterpiece we want to turn you into a walking piece of art and the reaction
Should be like when you wear your jacket you wear your jersey whatever you got from stuff for Greeks or from Susan’s closet you want me to be like wow where did you get that like that like we just wanted to blow people away that’s what we’re all about not just you know
Sticking letters and in numbers and stuff you know one of our models is you dream it we design it so a lot of people come to us with just an idea a concept that that most other stores can’t pull off but we make it happen because all of
Us here are artist by trade artists from different walks of life you know we got people who work here who are like tattoo artists got musicians we got painters fine artists everybody has some type of art background and we all come together as like a super team to bring these
Greek visions to life all right so I have a question for you yeah what made you decide to join Kappa Alpha side out of all fraternities so when I was a teenager my older brother went to UGA and he wasn’t Greek at the time but he
You know I was I was like 13 I was hanging out with big brother our camp he was like showing me the ropes and I remember sitting in the dining hall and he he like pointed out all the different frats and sororities and just like you know those are the cues those are
Brooklyn’s those ability boobs those are pretty boys the helpers of the pharmacy now this is back in the eighties gosh okay I was like okay I wasn’t really interested in it but when I got to college I noticed how like the news just kind of had this special bond to
Themselves on the campus of UGA that just really appealed to me like they just they really stuck together didn’t let anybody mess with them and I’m awesome so I did some research on it some of my friends that I was hanging with they started disappearing onto like
That you know anything yeah so I’m like what’s going on right I researched it one of the things that really perked me up about Kappa Alpha site is there are no honorary members okay so okay I was like okay so everybody got to earn this the matter Kunwar so it’s really stuck
With me and I love with Kate Kate I sense were you know achievement and every field of human endeavor some that I live by some that I breathe so I felt like it was the right for every gotcha awesome awesome so a lot of people has asked us about these two jackets here
And this kind of goes to the hordes of the company so when I pledged you know this way before stuff a greeks existed obviously but I sketched out this bunny that one in the back of the jacket and my line brothers took it to some company
And they were like here we don’t get them made and they came back with this right here and it’s like if you zoom in on this bunny you can kind of see all of the flaws with it first of all the running looks it’s not like anything left my jacket not like my
Sketch you can see how the other one the wrong number here the threads or raggedy and I was like man you know what I don’t even want the jacket this is my library check it and I didn’t even want it I didn’t buy my own line jacket cuz I was
Just disgusted with how how bad the design look so five past four or five years later you know we have the company going and I decided to remake the exact same jacket for my live brother and send it to him so you can see here how crisped now
These jackets are probably 15 years old you can see how how crisp everything still is how white everything is it still is we have a lifetime embroidery guarantee on all of our jackets so a lot of people think Oh Greek serves all the saying jackets are all the same their
Borders are the same but we have this up here to illustrate the difference between the two and you can see it’s like day and night you get what you pay for when it comes to quality this is a pant brandy this is like where the magic happens
Besides just the Greek world we do stuff for the movie industry a corporate world with your school uniforms you dream that we design it and we’re like a tattoo shop for your clothes we did some stuff for Marvel Studios on oficina so Black Lightning Netflix so we did some stuff for them
Like a from the very first episode all the school uniforms that where his daughter goes to school when we did those exciting being in Atlanta because you got the whole movie of film industry in Atlanta is booming right now in fact we film more movies in TV
Atlanta than anywhere else in the world I don’t know if a lot of people realize that more than Hollywood more than New York Atlanta is the number one spot in filming TV right now you got this space built out back in oh nine when we bought
This building it was all just empty like just a big empty light it looked like a like a green house like a landfill and we built off we designed it all that built all the walls yes the instance of when you get your stuff done somewhere else
So yeah so I’m currently removing her stitches for her so we can update her proof we fix a lot of people’s mistakes oh no other company’s mistakes and we remove the stitches and then put artwork in place of it and then you have to worry about it because you have a
Lifetime guarantee once we put our system know why we call these fabric Aziz so these are like embroidered portraits if you zoom in on you can like see the stitches but we’ve got this idea because of we had so many customers who want their portrait just like your
Jacket get you your picture on the back of a jacket we’re like oh man that’s really cool you know you do that and be like well people get portraits in their house we’ll with like oil paintings so why not give them a new medium you could
Get instead of oil painting you can get it in in stitches and thread oh it’s cool we’ve done these I didn’t even notice it was stitched this whole time it’s real subtle yes we’ve done it for a few celebrities Vivica Fox Tyler Perry did some for for
Oprah Winfrey’s dogs so we redraw the person’s face in the computer by hand layer by layer and then we send it to the embroidery department and then they set up the stitches for each area of the design and then embroider it out so it’s definitely a work of art it’s a
Time-consuming process but that’s a labor of love yeah y’all hear that hey now we started this company with $700 it’s like out of our pocket and you know we just took take the profits of the company and just reinvest it and keep growing and growing and you know
Hiring people providing jobs for people but you know we just feel extremely blessed to be able to do this we’ve been in we won tons of awards we’ve been in the newspaper multiple times show you like this is me this is one I gave Vivica Fox Hearst her fabric Ozzie for a
Fiftieth birthday and then she so she shot at us out on Instagram and then these are Oprah’s dogs with their stitches we must do baby stuff we got the fat bread line with the baby stuff you want everybody to feel my eyes you know yeah it’s a keepsake yes uh you’re
Gonna treasure that you know forever the rest your life so these are eyes are like batons you can give it to a team member when you see that they’ve done something that exemplifies one of our core values but promises you know if you pay for like with us or something we
Give you a guaranteed date we’ll make sure you have it by that date so we always keep our promises to the customer and to each other accuracy you know the jacket speaks for herself like every stitch is placed with precision we’re accurate with everything logic you know we always use deductive reasoning
Because a lot of times when you’re dealing with custom work you’re gonna run into a situation where you encounter something that you’ve never encountered before but everybody here is empowered to use logic to like figure out how to do C by what you did with a and B you
Know and use your own brain power to figure out how to do it the best way in this systems we document everything we do step by step so that you can train the next person like this is how we do it so that that way you get a consistent
Experience with us whether you order from us ten years ago or we’re the order for us yesterday you’re gonna get the exact same quality you know just like McDonald’s when anywhere else you know it’s gonna be you know you want your burger to be exactly the same as if you
Go get it in Kansas versus you know all right I want to be the same way here especially as we continue to grow and expand different locations every azusa’s closet is they have the exact same experience now this is a random question off topic way you get your hair cut from
Because I’m trying to find a barber around here and it’s been a struggle yeah that’s why I’m looking strophe down honestly I come home yeah I’m not a bar rock okay two peoples Erica my hair and my son’s hair boy oh boy what a quest continues in case you always wondering
They did fix it there we go y’all I’m amazed I’m amazed at how much work is put into making these jackets in these shirts stuff for grease man check them out they are quality they care about the quality y’all saw a man like this is hard work
It is hard work is not just some granny sitting back there stitching this well-made machines crafting it’s designers as people in they’re actually creating the stuff that you sending up so you have to pay for quality you have to pay for quality so definitely check them out if you’re looking for some
Quality and looking for some nail yet that you can customize and really last forever but I catch y’all next video peace
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