New York Sport Fans are known to bring their hearts to their sleeves, and this jacket speaks for them: on the court, on the court and in the countryside.
This is New York Knicks right now, with the team with an impressive and historic winning streak, but the usual ones in the Madison Square garden, both on the court and off the court, do not want to forget the other heroes in the hometown.
Alex Ruffin, a 31 -year -old connecticut designer who created the “Madison Square Guardian”, a $ 1,400 tailor -made jacket, a half that the Rangers traveled, the other Knicks, can celebrate the Big Apple Sports heart, win or lose.
“MSG: This is Mecca right there,” he told The Post. “Babies are born every day in a fandom … Sports unify a lot of people.”
The Coat of Many Colors is part of the “Hometown Hero” series, by Luffin a a Thrifted Temple Label: a fun fusion of two vintage team jackets from the same city or state, cut and sewn together to create a uniform statement.
“People reson with my jackets to the point they do because sports are the only thing on this planet that transcends,” said Luffin, who created the concept three years ago in his home in Stamford.
“I thought it was a brilliant idea, because whoever does not like to represent where they are from?” Added.
Even Jalen Brunson, the star guard of the Knicks, is on board.
“The jalen jacket I made for him is very special to me,” Luffin said about the $ 1,400 style that Brunson had last month. “It made a lot of sense, just knowing the story of the team and the owners, and then knowing that Jalen Brunson’s father also played the Knicks on that day, so it was a very great time.”
And it is a time of full circle, considering that the Knicks are in the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2000, when Brunson Rick’s father was on the team.
A winning combination
Ruffin’s rags starts from $ 800, with the most popular designs that New York teams often see, but they have been seen sports across the country, such as Davion Mitchell, who currently plays the Miami Heat, and Milwaukee Bucks’ Andre Jackson Jr., as well as Rappers Westside Gunn, Anderson. Big Sean.
The mania started when the Yankees player, Jazz Chisholm Jr., brought a hometown hero (Knicks-Yankees) to Msg, a surrealistic moment for Luffin, who played baseball for ten years.
“They had it in the Jumbotron and is showing both sides of the jacket,” said Luffin. “I was like, it is happening. It is finally happening. Everything has been crazy.”
The last Slam Dunk took place after Brunson’s great revelation, but led to fans everywhere with applications for personal pairs.
“It’s a hot merchandise right now and it’s almost overwhelming to some extent, but in a good way. Many people want my job,” said Luffin. “It’s crazy because I don’t see jackets like jackets, I see them as pieces of art.”
Court of the Court
Luffin can compensate up to four jackets in a day and most are priced at $ 500 to 600, although New York designs, which are highly demand, are higher.
Tackling the originals in Frankenstein together is complicated: it is based on the shops Mercari, Ebay, Depop or Local Thrift, although customers can supply two jackets to merge -and thus remain with the influx of orders, especially from the Knicks stripe.
But for the demand creator, everything is a day job. “They say it all the time, if you can do it in New York, you can do it anywhere.”
Often, buyers take their jackets almost immediately after they publish the landings on social media. So far, he has sold about 100 native hero jackets.
“With these jackets I do, I feel like I am like gentleman people. How, this is like a battle armor for you who feel you are yours and belongs to you only,” said Luffin.
But it was a little less than three years that he began to sew seriously and to bring his designs to life to begin with, and he is completely self -taught.
“It’s almost like trying to learn a new language,” he said.
Comeback story
Luffin’s great victory comes a little more than a decade after he was forced to leave college at the age of 18 to take care of his mother when he was diagnosed with cancer.
“I remember clearly how the day, having this weight at such a young age, makes you something,” said Luffin. “Seeing someone who has a disintegration bond right in front of you and losing all aspects of themselves.”
He died in 2013, a few weeks after his 20th anniversary, and Luffin’s father died a few years later at the age of 51.
Experimenting an immense loss at such a young age could have broken it, but learned to turn his pain into art. He reintroduced into the drawing and began painting his designs with clothes, which he found therapeutics.
“I would relieve my mind of loss,” he said.
He sold his first $ 80 painted jacket and, during the later years, has been able to leave his day work in Sprint and “launch caution in the wind” to focus exclusively on a temple that took place.
“It’s really humble to me because I made these jackets in my apartment. It’s me, my space of being and my sewing machine,” he said.
He is now doing more than any previous concert, and his life is also much richer.
Although he may not be here to see it, Luffin said he is sure he made his father, a fan of New York Sports, proud.
“I know that my mother, my father and my grandmother are with me in spirit on this trip.”
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