- Hair and make up being done in the back kitchen of the bar next to a mountain of kegs. - Billy from Eat the Elderly telling me to take a pull of Jim Beam and stop being a pussy.
- Who brought the dicks? The local Orlando hellions show up to have fun, drink and try to burn the pace down.
- Crazy drunk lady from earlier showing her shit and crazy drunk husband start round one of several boxing matches to come through out the night.
- Eat the Elderly comes on and immediately start to rock everyone’s balls off. This ain’t your average fashion show. - Greg Smee, one of our models, drinking Windex and spitting it into the crowd. He did the same thing with Ketchup, Beer and paper towels. I think this kid is part Billy goat.
- Models finish their walk and chaos ensues. Eat the Elderly plays three more songs and the whole front row is a tornado of arms, legs, metal head banging, picking up change and beer cans.
- Success! Everyone has a great time and now it’s time to get something to eat. This wouldn’t be Florida if we didn’t get to end the night by witnessing some down home Southern domestic abuse. Remember the drunk lady from earlier? Well, her and her husband are now full-on wrestling, under taker style, out in the parking lot. Dialed. TIF.
All in all, it was an amazing and everyone had a great time. I want to thank Holly and Terry at Odin’s for giving us the Space. Pamela at Redbull and the girls who came out. Corrine at Alchemy and all the Stylists who worked in the tiniest space under the most impossible conditions and made everyone look amazing. All of our models for the amazing job that they did. Eat the Elderly – my favorite band, they’ll be your favorite band too. Marty for taping the whole event. Chad for coming and shooting photos. My creative Team – Stef Tor and Kyle Hyams. Wann Chong, our boss, for giving us the creative freedom to put something like this together. Quotes:
“As a fashion designer I have never been so excited about a show
like this before. I felt as if UGP's first ever Fashion show was a success everyone was having fun and wylin' out in traditional UGP Fashion. Thanks to Alchemy hair Salon, Eat The Elderly , all of the models and most importantly all the loyal UGP supporters” –Stef Tor “BMX needs more of this” -unknown “Nothing but good vibes and a positive buzz in the air” -David Papandras
“I got a lot of wild sh*t on film, the video is going to be wild” - Kyle Hyams
“Ron Bonner’s stunt double was there, laugh and all” –Chad DeGroot
“Being 22 years old, this is the best the line has ever looked” - Mark Mulville
“There was a 50 year old flashing her tities and one of the models pissed on the runway while drinking Windex” –Orlando Weekly
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