Spring is here…  FINALLY! Well I will not get a head of myself, but in Edmonton April is the turnover month for spring time. Spring means many things, but for people at Room 322 it means kicking it with friends, all night BBQs, video games ,breaking out fresh kicks, video games, blazing fires, and simply good times (playing VIDEO GAMES)!

This spring keep it clean and fresh with Room 322 and come correct this year around. Year round some people “see double” from all the fun they having, but Spring/Summer people’s social drinking increases.

Any case stop by Room 322 soon, cause these pieces are already making there way out the door! See you soon!

The way people view the world around them is greatly influence by their perpective. If you have a very optimistic view, usually it because from your experiences. Over the past two years Room 322 has been working to become more then just a store. We love the fact that, similar to the fashion world, we are also constantly changing. Most people would argue that all clothing stores adapt with the fashion trends, but I strongly believe otherwise. Lots of people say “Deadmonton” lack fashion sense, but who is to blame? If people do not have access to the newest and dopest brands, isn’t the responsibility on the retailers to bring it to them?

We want to change the scene in Edmonton when it comes to fashion. This is not an easy task to accomplish, but besides ourselves only a handful of retailers are trying and in my books a few have even given up. This won’t be something Room 322 will accomplish anytime soon, but gradually even if it is one person at a time we will change the way people view lifestyle streetwear.

It was funny today to see at the university a sea of sheep students, dressed all the same. You can not really blame them because retailers at the “biggest” mall in the world basically carry all the brands.  Vistors and even people raised in Edmonton get brain washed into thinking WEM is the best shopping due to the vast selection of reatilers, but majority of the stuff is the same. We been trying to get out away from this same problem, but is a issue that we have not completely solved.

With a new angel on things in Edmonton I have blow the dust off the Canon will be doing a lot a lot more photo drops of the Room 322 lifestyle, 2010 is already looking very interesting…

Nonetheless, on the bright side of things at least the snow disappearing!

]]> http://www.room322.ca/new-perpective/feed/ 1 http://www.room322.ca/room-322-part-1/ http://www.room322.ca/room-322-part-1/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:52:02 +0000 bobbyt http://room322.ca/blog/?p=1483

Friday December, 5th Atomic Zombie will be holding an art show of local artist. This event will consist prize giveaways, fashion show, and of coarse the sale of art including graphics art, digital images, and tattoo style art.

Where: Vinyl Lounge Jasper Ave and 109st
When: Friday December, 5th
Tickets are $10
100% of proceeds will be donated to Food bank

WARNING:  1 GRAPHIC PICTURE of a piercing is near the end of the post. If your curious then take a look, if your weak at heart then don’t bother looking! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Pictures after the jump...

This event was a combination of  fashion, art, tattoo, piercings and music show of local artist and business in Edmonton.

Of coarse Room 322 has some of the freshesses outfits (and most liked) for this event!!

A few other clothing store also were part of fashion show. Their was a lot of the pieces that were actually  pretty dope.

WARNING: THE GRAPHIC PICTURE IS COMING UP

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUCH!

This pericing was done by the host of the event, Atomic Zombie. They do tattoos and piercings damn that must of hurt!

Its nice having a best friend as a bouncer for the event, you can do pretty much anything you want!

Jay being Jay

MeaStarr made it out to the event also reppin that Married to the MOB

Special shout out to D!, the women behind the scene helping Room 322′s models with outfit changes

Next event Hip Hop for Hunger 2008! December 20th!!

See you their!

Room 322 consist of 3 founders that are basically junkies to fashion world and had to bring their perceptive of fashion to their hometown, so this brings me to the question, have you met Jay?

Jay could been seen to be the voice of Room 322. He is a loud (too loud at times) punctual person who tell it how it is. He respects everyone around him, loves spreading the word about Room 322. He is a “denim head” who loves clean looking apparel and loves his JB classic sneakers. Some of favorite brands he loves to rock are JB classics, Jordans, Riddim Driven, and Shmack.

Always full of jokes Jay is a person who always has something funny to say regardless of the situation. You could be accepting a reward on stage in front of a room full of people, but he will still crack a joke to flip the situation.

“Thinking” he is a amazing singer (you be the judge, but you have been warned) Jay loves his reggae music, rap and reggae.

With only the future on his mind Jay is a key part of the puzzle of what make Room 322 the store it is today. No one could ask for anything better then a comedian being part of a family ran business.

Room 322 has come a long way since, we first opened the doors. Some of you may not know, but officially became owners of Room 322 in August, but through shipping issues, plumbing, contractors, suppliers, workers, stupidity, God, electricity, heat, inexperience and the previous owner it took us 4 months to open Room 322.

This is our story…

Opening the doors to a new store that you now own is one of the best feelings… epically if you want to start breaking things!

If you wondering what those 4 huge wholes are from, they are from Jay jump kicking a room divider.

After 30 mintues of kicking down walls and cleaning up a building that the previous owner was suppose to do we did what anyone else would, which is take a break.

Slowly I realized that the previous owner pretty much didnt clean up jack since we were suppose to have an “empty/clear outed” space.

Fortunately, having fam willing to help was great! Thanks Adrain

Looking back to this picture I realized one thing… why the hell did we wash the floors the 1st day moving into the building? Since we were all raised to being cleaning freaks, I guess it was just a force of habit.

With squeaky clean floors, ugly green blinds and matching green walls, Room 322 was beginning to look like a million bucks.

1000 Package Designs

PACK! Magazine

I think we can say around the world and now at Room 322!!

Room 322 has come a long way since the very beginning. We have made tough choices, big changes and have never regret a moment! We solved problem never faced before and have been constantly learning ever since we first decided to start up Room 322.

In tribute to Room 322 I will be posting what we went through during the creation of Room 322. You will get a inside view of life at Room 322 from day 0, so check back often because trust me, you won’t want to miss out!!

more pictures after the jump…

Room 322 use to be a old TV (junk yard) repair shop and as you could see only someone crazy would think “Hey this looks like a great spot to build a store!”

Front of Room 322!

Old TV repair shop? more like junk yard!

We wanted to keep these tiles and actually argued for a few days, but they had to go even though they made the store have character!

Best tiles money can buy!

Until the next update!!!

Today someone came into the store day and was like surprised that we took the effort to add some flavor to the store (for Halloween), but everyone is under the impression that we are just another store except we are not.

Room 322 is a lifestyle that strongly believes people should dress the way they feel. If your looking for a way to express your akomplice nature, riddim driven mindset, or inner greedy genius we are here to aid  you in expressing yourself.

Living by our own belief, Room 322 tries to have constantly have fun throughout the fashion seasons and holidays. This is just the teaser of Room 322′s innovation. We challenge all of you to out their to separate yourselves from crowd and find your own unique flavor and if your need some help, we got your back at Room 322.

And yes we do love Halloween!!!!