About Strictly Business
Strictly Business Clothing was established in 2005 by two Latino males from the Bronx. With a long night coming to an end and just observing a few business deals gone bad these two men discussed why individuals fail to handle business accordingly and came to a conclusion, everything should always be Strictly Business. At the end of that night Strictly Business Clothing was born.
Soon after that night these two men worked collectively on introducing their first T-Shirt collection to the world. With personal and a professional schedule to maintain they worked long hours to get the collection prepared for the summer of 2005. With all the hard work behind them it was time to see if the collection would be embraced. Though they believed in their product, the goal was to get everyone else to do the same. After revealing the collection to the streets with no other form, but self distribution they managed to sell half of there collection out of the trunk of the car. Seeing they had created a buzz they decided to reach out to a few stores for placement. They first reached out to Sammy’s in Bronx , which agreed to sell their merchandise and then to Prohibit in the lower east side which also agreed to sell their merchandise. To there expectations both store’s sold out of all the merchandise which proved Strictly Business Clothing was something to pay attention to.
Strictly Business Goal
Our goal is to provide merchandise that’s stylish, classic, and have meaning to them. Competition in the fashion world has increased tremendously which simply means there are a lot of brands following trends and produce meaningless merchandise. Strictly Business is here to take the market back to a “less is more“ simplistic classical concept. At the present moment we only offer T-Shirts, yet we have already made a decision that we will eventually introduce a full collection and accessories. When you think of Strictly Business Clothing don’t think of us just as clothing nor a brand , but a way of living.
The Men Behind Strictly Business
With an extensive history in fashion and among his peers consider timeless fashion Anthony Severino teamed up with Frank Ray Garcia to create Strictly Business Clothing. With no formal education in fashion Anthony took matters into his own hands and began working on achieving his dream in the late 90’s. While working through the years at companies such as Timberland, Nike, and Lacoste Anthony’s interest in fashion grew as well as his knowledge of the business. After realizing he needed to get a hands on approach he took on an internship with Apropo Showroom where he learned the wholesale aspect of the fashion industry. He also got to attend all major tradeshows in New York such as Project, DNA and few others. Once that internship finished he took another internship with Studio Dee Services owned by Dee Williams. Miss Williams who formally handle the press department for 14 years at world famous Showroom 7. She took Anthony under her wing and showed him the ropes of fashion PR, fashion show production, and how to handle sample loans and other fascists of the industry. While there Anthony also worked as an assistant stylist on various projects, such as Rock Star Ballroom’s premiere issue, and recently 2 issue for Essence Magazine.
With all these experiences within the industry Anthony has turned his focus on making Strictly Business Clothing an empire. Keep yours ears open because we’re sure that you will here about Strictly Business and the men behind it.
Although Frankie Ray Garcia chose different avenues than Anthony he has always had a unique ability to determine weather or not something is going to be successful. Also possessing an intriguing fashion sense, displaying class and purchasing rare items and converting them to must haves. Like Anthony, Frankie Ray also has no formal education in fashion but has tremendous amount of passion and understanding for constructing classic and meaningful pieces. His hard work, determination and hustle hard mentality has endless potential and there’s no telling where he and Anthony Severino can take Strictly Business Clothing.
With these two young men’s abilities we can all sit back and enjoy the ride as we witness this generations next movement. Remember Strictly Business Clothing is not a brand nor a lifestyle but a way of living !