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Dressing for Influence with Samantha Lopez
Join the conversation as I, Thaddeous Shade, sit down with the dynamic force that is Samantha Lopez, the innovative mind behind Samantha's Kloset. Samantha spills the beans on her invigorating morning rituals and why she's giving Starbucks the cold shoulder, all while keeping us laughing. Our candid discussion takes you through the eye of the storm in the beauty industry - imagine juggling lash extensions and Thanksgiving feasts - and ventures into the secrets of our signature scents. Whether you're a style guru or a budding entrepreneur, you're in for a treat as Samantha's insights on fashion and social activism intertwine in a chat that's as enlightening as it is entertaining.
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Speaker 2:Ladies and gentlemen, I am Thaddeus Shay. This is seasonable cloud and it's a Saturday. What is it? Today is November 25th. I'm sitting up here with Samantha Lopez.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:The owner, the CEO, the creator of Samantha's Closet.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:How are you doing today?
Speaker 3:I'm good. How are you?
Speaker 2:I'm okay, you watched me. Struggle, struggle, that's really what I was doing was pure struggle right there, absolutely struggling, 1000%. Add some technical difficulties. So I appreciate your patience and you're such a sweetheart I appreciate you.
Speaker 3:I can't even imagine trying to set all of that up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, usually audio I'm 10 times better. Okay, I don't know what was going on right now, but I normally don't have to worry about audio. It's the video part that I'm learning, and so that's why I got my boy Visions helping me out. But this was work yo.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:You know, I just wanted to be set up. Plus I want yours to sound better than JT home, so he can be upset about that.
Speaker 3:And the background too. I got the better background than JT and the better video Audio.
Speaker 2:There we go. But yeah, we got Samantha in here. We're going to give you a round of applause for that. I brought it up like a real television show was like this that's what we're doing Getting louder, yeah, right, so we'll start with some shit chat. We'll have a little conversation. We'll just start out with How'd you come up with? Okay, how was your day today?
Speaker 3:It was good. I mean, this is kind of the start to my day.
Speaker 2:I woke up around like 10, slept in just a little bit, but yeah, it was Saturday though, do you have to still get up early on a Saturday?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 3:I have to be at my shop around like 12 that's when I open, but I like to be up early just to make sure, like I'm up, I'm awake, moving around. Yeah, moving around. If I need to like go pick up packages, you know run errands before I need to like get to the shop, pretty much I got you yeah.
Speaker 2:So the first thing when I did an interview with JT, he talked about like he gets up and he listens to rock music. Do you have anything you wake up to and that helps wake you up? Or you know you could go music, you could turn on a TV show or you have anything to just kind of get you going. You read a book, you meditate a little bit. He talked about meditating a little bit.
Speaker 3:Coffee, coffee or the gym.
Speaker 2:I appreciate you and the coffee, yeah, coffee and the gym.
Speaker 3:Sure, I like to get the gym out of the way sometimes.
Speaker 2:If.
Speaker 3:I'm going to have a crazy day towards the end of the day, or I'm going to like go out or do something. I like to go in the morning.
Speaker 2:Right. How long are you spending the gym? What you doing in the gym?
Speaker 3:Definitely cardio.
Speaker 2:Cardio On the stairs, yeah.
Speaker 3:The treadmill incline all the way up Legs for sure.
Speaker 2:You a leg day person.
Speaker 3:Gotta get my legs up like they gotta be big.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're not afraid of leg day. I'm not a big.
Speaker 3:I love leg day.
Speaker 2:I do the legs Girls love doing legs. Okay, like that's our thing, cause we want to be thick. Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 3:I am. Back is not my favorite. Like arms and back I fucking hate I have to like force myself to do it. And abs I hate doing abs too.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, being you in the same about abs, I don't have them. That's why Me either.
Speaker 3:So I'm like trying to get them. I hate it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm scared of leg day. I can't do it. As soon as I Leg day on my, I'll do leg day, but it's uh. It's equal to me imagining having to swim with a bunch of sharks. You know what I'm saying. I'm like this is not going to be fun, but when I'm done though, Feel good. Feel good. It's a feel good pain.
Speaker 3:It is.
Speaker 2:You know your muscles have worked so you like to. Either you know coffee or the gym. Coffee, wise right.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:Um, what is like something you dive into on the car. I'm a coffee aficionado, I'm a coffee kind of sewer. I mean, I go to all types of coffee shops. What about yourself?
Speaker 3:Well, I'm not going to lie, I was getting Starbucks every single day, but we're not. We're not fucking with Starbucks right now.
Speaker 2:Oh wait, why are we? Because this is like the third time we've had to to to boycott Starbucks. What's going on? What happened?
Speaker 3:Well, they're funding the wars that are going on in Palestine.
Speaker 2:So See you schooling me right now. Yeah, I don't buy it. See, I ain't okay. Listen, I'll be honest. This is an honest moment. Probably when they first dropped the pumpkin chai chai tilates. Yeah, I struggled. I talked about it in the episode, I struggled saying it. For some reason I did grab two of them because I was a fiend. I thought I was a fiend, but I ain't gonna.
Speaker 2:I ain't been there since and I ain't going back until you give me the okay to go back and everything that you know they. They handle business the right way. I did not know that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I haven't been there in a long time like. I used to go like religiously every single day, but you know, I ended up just buying my own coffee machine. I told you about last time, yeah and saving money, you know, because it was like seven to ten dollars every day just on coffee at Starbucks and then with the whole like Palestine stuff going on to like you backed away from.
Speaker 2:I understand completely. You know I like that. You know what? What's clapped? Yeah, I'm gonna give you a little clappy clap for that. I don't mind it at all. Are you, uh, you socially aware? You like to be in and in the know, and stand for right wrong and speak up about those things. That's really cool. That's really cool. Um so I guess I would ask right, thanksgiving just passed, right, we just? I mean, that's a couple days ago. How was your feast? Did you feast? Did you did you? Was you around family?
Speaker 3:um, I had to work you wait, thanks, you had to work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you open on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3:I wasn't open but I was doing like some lash stuff I had to get done.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because not only do you have some endless closet, you do lashes, lashes, lashes. Wait on, school me what's the lash applies. I'm a man, school me now. What's the lash applies?
Speaker 3:so basically we sell lash supplies oh, lash supplies for like other lash artists, to come like, purchase and use on their clients. So yeah, the Amazon eyelashes, not the no. We're in the Amazon for better than Amazon. I like that.
Speaker 2:I like that yeah so you had to go work. We use. How many eyelashes were you taking care of that day?
Speaker 3:I had like three clients yeah on Thanksgiving I started at 10 and I didn't get done till like five dang you was really working on. Yeah, you didn't get a chance to eat it on, I did I oh, you did get it, I went over to my mom's right after, and it was.
Speaker 2:I got right to it. I was starving. I didn't eat like I was like. You know, I'm gonna eat later anyways how many, how many plates you get on. It's okay, you can. You can be honest here how many plates I had three yes, that's embarrassing it was not embarrassing, you was eating it was the day of food.
Speaker 2:You can. A little gluttony don't hurt nobody. You can't that day. You know I'm saying so you. So you telling me you was. You're dropping the eyelashes all day. So is that something that you were doing before you got to Samantha's closet?
Speaker 3:yeah, I actually started with eyelashes. That was my first business at 19 I opened. Well, first I started doing them by myself and then eventually opened up a shop nice and yeah, that's what that was like my entrepreneur, like journey, like the start of that pretty much really so you started out eyelashes you built up a clientele and Adam assuming yes, because you just so.
Speaker 2:Is it when you're doing eyelashes? Do you got to have like that steady surgeon hand?
Speaker 2:for sure really, how did you get that down? How'd you get the surgeon from? You know me, I drink too much coffee. I got, I get the shaky hands. I look like a zombie on crack. You don't want that to happen for you don't want me to get eyelashes, but what you know does that something you had to go to school for well, you kind of just get used to it after a while yeah yeah, okay, yeah sure you're the beauty expert.
Speaker 2:I'm coming to you to get my knowledge. So when it comes to Samantha's closet right, samantha's closet you want to tell them where it's located at yes, it's at 2829 north 15th Ave 15th Ave.
Speaker 3:Midtown.
Speaker 2:I would like to know what inspired you to get your own store for the boutique for the boutique. Yes, let me get that right.
Speaker 3:Inspired the boutique, the boutique, yeah well, I did like, like I mentioned before, I would like kind of go out sometimes and I would get girls. They would stop me and ask me like hey, where'd you get your outfit? And it was all the time Right, and at the time I was only shopping on like these Instagram boutiques or like Fashion Nova pretty little thing, because we didn't really have nothing like that here.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 3:But yeah, same thing on Instagram I would post. Girls would message me and ask like you know where's your fit from Like can we get the details and stuff?
Speaker 2:So you were never a gatekeeper? No, I don't like to share. Well, I will gatekeep one thing you don't want to say what it is I used to tell people.
Speaker 3:But I'm, I'm, I'm gatekeeping my perfume now. I'm sorry guys, yes, I'm a cologne, go ahead. I can't like. I used to give people like the like I used to tell girls, but I can't anymore Like what happened?
Speaker 2:What changed your mind on that?
Speaker 3:I want to smell like my style, but I want to be like. I have my own stand. You know I can't like, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I understand, I'm a cologne connoisseur. I I I lie when they ask me.
Speaker 3:I lie, I gotta.
Speaker 2:I gotta go look at the.
Speaker 3:I don't remember the name, I gotta go look at the bottle.
Speaker 2:I don't know, so I lie, so I'm assuming that's on my heaven record. When I get to the gates they're like man, you lying about cologne 150 times, bro. So.
Speaker 3:I understand.
Speaker 2:So you gatekeep the perfume of it all I have to. You feel like you. You feel like you could come up with a Samantha's perfume.
Speaker 3:That's like one of my ideas.
Speaker 2:I want to have my own perfume one day. Yeah, what would you think it would smell like?
Speaker 3:Um, like warm vanilla musky type of scent that's like what I'm into.
Speaker 2:Okay, can. Is it okay to ask uh, let's see, I know we gatekeeping here on that and I respect that. Let's see if we can give a a version of something that you like right, like the, like a perfume you really rock with, okay, um, and you could just throw us off, you could give us a note like something of an older version of it and then, you know, maybe we can get like an idea of it all unless you, you know you, I have a couple like I have a lot of favorites.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I won't give out my current favorite. Sorry, give us one you give Um, I would say it would be like inspired by Killian. Um, I actually, yes, princess by Killian, that's pretty. That's, that's a that's so good, I call some Duggets. Yeah, that's not regular. My perfume is not cheap, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's not regular. That's. That's Dugget money, that's that's real money. That's not.
Speaker 3:That's not no joke right here so uh, you into the perfume.
Speaker 2:You, you, you. You know we talked about, you know gatekeeping and stuff like that. Um, so you really feel like you could get in and get you a Samantha's classic perfume going, or something like that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I definitely want to get into perfume. It would obviously be like a it's different thing, like its own thing, different name and everything, but I love perfume, so I would definitely want to do that one day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'd choose. So we are getting back on track when we talk about Samantha's classic, because I really think you, being an influencer, um, people love you in the city.
Speaker 3:You're very popular.
Speaker 2:You're very dope, very dope human Um give great energy.
Speaker 3:Thank you Um.
Speaker 2:I think it's very, very dope that you opened up your own boutique. Look at me, see, I'm learning. So, yeah, continue to talk about the process of getting to the point of like, um, I have my own boutique now. Where did the inspiration come from?
Speaker 3:Yeah. So, like I mentioned, um, basically girls would. We're always asking me where I got outfit and stuff like that and I kind of like I thought to myself like well, why don't you just start your own thing?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You know you have your last stuff going on like just do the clothes, like start little, you know little by little so um. I think it was in 20, 20,. What was it?
Speaker 2:20, 20, we had. Everybody was coming up with ideas in 2020.
Speaker 3:20, 20. I want to say it was 2021. Yeah 2021 is when I like, officially like, opened a store. Nice, yeah, nice and then, yeah, like you know, started little by little. I feel like this year we've grown like the most.
Speaker 2:So you feel like there was more of a lane of giving women the opportunity to try a lot of that stuff they've seen online on. And you know, yeah, so this is not the first. So when we talk about we've talked about this before this is not the first time. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. We had some angle issues and some some memory issues. So we're back again. Just stay with us and we'll go through it again. So you told me previously that you talked about like, not women not being able to try those things on.
Speaker 2:And I told you, I seen pictures, memes and videos of women trying stuff on. They have the actual ad to the left of them and then on the right they would have the how it came and stuff like that. I know that's a big issue.
Speaker 3:Is that something that was on on your mind when you were Definitely, because there's been a couple of times where I've gotten things and it looks terrible on me.
Speaker 1:But I don't return stuff, I'll just either give it away or like whatever.
Speaker 2:But you telling me you ordered something at a restaurant and it's not right. You're not going to?
Speaker 3:Oh, that's different.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, okay I got you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's different, but like because you can easily just send it back to the kitchen. You know what I mean. But when you send something back to fashion Nova, you got to like do all this extra, so I don't want to do it.
Speaker 2:Have you ever done it before? No, no, like that.
Speaker 3:I'll just give it to a friend or just let it sit in the closet.
Speaker 2:Okay, Do you do when? When ladies come into your shop, do they kind of let you know that this is nice to be able to try this on?
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, all the time. Like I had a customer come in last week and she ordered an outfit for an event. It came. She didn't like it, so she came into the shop. Yeah, I was like you know, I want to try stuff on. It had something that I planned on wearing. Didn't work out, so now. I'm here, nice, okay.
Speaker 2:So can I? Can I speak that? I think I seen somebody pretty cool you took a picture with in your shop. Yeah, when you let them know who came into the shop to, to, to, to shop, yeah, ruby.
Speaker 3:Rose came in yesterday. Yeah, she was opening for. Sexy Red last night, right, so that was pretty dope.
Speaker 2:How was she? Was she cool? She's amazing, I love her.
Speaker 3:Her energy is awesome. She's really nice. We're pretty. Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2:When, when people come, when women come into the shop, do you kind of help assist with the shopping? Yeah, kind of like a personal help Kind of like a personal like is it personal she? You know shoppers that what they call it. Like did you help with Ruby when she came in?
Speaker 3:I, I did, I got like some new stuff. Her stuff was exclusive. I didn't even put it out yet.
Speaker 1:Really so.
Speaker 3:I got, like some like a shipment of new things and I put everything aside for her on a rack and I was like girl, it's our new stuff.
Speaker 2:So, whatever you want to take, you know, go for it, Go for it and, yeah, a little hand in this that this, that that's cool man. Is that something you would? You hoped maybe that you get some more. Do you get like a lot of people that come in town and come into the shop, celebrities, influencers that are not here, do they? They come in.
Speaker 3:I think this was like if they're an influencer, maybe I haven't recognized them, I get it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3:But I think this was probably the first time I've had someone like that big come in.
Speaker 2:That's cool. Which?
Speaker 3:is super, super cool, that's really cool the process.
Speaker 2:We're here talking about the process of Samantha's closet. So your drive is. I'm assuming you had this you when you got the idea you wanted to have your boutique. So now comes the space. Like you got to find a space for it. How did you find your space for it Was just driving around. How did you find that?
Speaker 3:Just driving around, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Stumbled upon it, say boom, that is where I want my shop to be. Yeah, okay, so I know you learn about the lease and all that stuff. Did you have help with that or did you kind of do your own research?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I get some help with it, yeah.
Speaker 2:I know JT talked to me about, like he, his federal trademark for his name. He had it. He had an issue, he had it state trademark and then he had to go and federal. So he was on, he called it, he called it YouTube college. So he's on YouTube and he's just going through. So you kind of had help on the process. End of it. Okay. So when it came to the look, the interior look of your store, where were some of the inspirations you were pulling from? Because I seen video looked beautiful inside the energy.
Speaker 2:looks like it comes straight out from the videos, like it makes a nice funk shway in there.
Speaker 1:I use the word funk shway.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It looks like it's really nice in there. What were some of the inspirations? Using some of the colors and the Well, my favorite color is pink, nice.
Speaker 3:Second favorite color is black. I love like the modern industrial look with like a hint of glam. So I feel like that's exactly what it, is Right, okay.
Speaker 2:So when you see I'm going to ask you something, because when I see you I get a nice. I know we talked about this last time yeah, I didn't get a chance to hear it but when I see you you got like a nice Kim K energy to you. And I'm not saying you are trying to be her, but you have a nice Kim K energy.
Speaker 3:Thank you, that's a compliment. Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 2:And does she do a lot of inspiring for you? Is that somebody you're a fan of?
Speaker 3:For sure, I love Kim.
Speaker 2:What you love about Kim, though you say like I love.
Speaker 3:Kim, I do. Yeah, no, she's a. She's a baddie. She's like the OG baddie. Yeah, but her work ethic I feel like she is very driven business, her business ethic and work ethic is great. Yeah, um, yeah, she's killing it.
Speaker 2:So if you see so, you telling me that's all you gonna have. If Kim K coming to the boutique, you telling me you, just, you ain't gonna have, you gonna, you ain't gonna scream no, like that.
Speaker 3:I'm not, definitely not screaming, I don't know.
Speaker 2:What you gonna say. It was the first thing you gonna say See, there, we see, you're not gonna scream, I'm gonna. How about this? If I'm somehow in there, I'm a scream for you.
Speaker 3:Okay, I got it.
Speaker 2:I got a high-pitched voice. If there's some bees chasing me, I can scream. Okay you know I'm saying so. I'm a Kim coming to store. You hear me scream. I just did it for you. Okay, you know, I got you back, thank you. That's what I'm here for. I'm here to help. Yeah, I'm always, I'm always very, very Impressed mm-hmm with Kim.
Speaker 2:Yeah something new something new all the time all the time and the way she conducts her business now and in her love for fashion. And this is, I call her, the reason why Instagram has, like, put a, put a squeeze on Engagement right and this is something I talked about in previous podcast, because here Kim case, such a, you know such a figure, you know such an icon, right. So when she posts something, you know if you think about it, when she posts something, it's sold out right in.
Speaker 2:Seconds in seconds, right, didn't spend no money on ads, didn't spend no money on marketing for TV Post and in it's, in, it's out. So, when you're a platform like Instagram and you're trying to make money, you know you put a squeeze on people right you put a squeeze on engagement, make it hard for people to get singing. We want you to spend money on ads and I always. I love the way her aesthetics look. Everything looks really good when she, when she dropped something, did you see she dropped for the NBA?
Speaker 3:Yes, that was super dope. Yeah, really really cool, yeah, see is there a Moment?
Speaker 2:did you? Do you have men's clothes? No, is that something that you might?
Speaker 3:Gabblin Not.
Speaker 2:Devon coming to the spot. He want to get some stuff or something like that. Listen, has any of any of the wives Basketball girl?
Speaker 3:I can help them out. Yeah, sure, I got the girls.
Speaker 2:You got a cover. Yeah okay, I got you Black Friday. That was yesterday. How was that?
Speaker 3:Well, my sale goes until Sunday.
Speaker 2:Oh nice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I did online. It actually started early too, so I started Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, thanksgiving Day Friday, today and then tomorrow.
Speaker 2:What's the sale?
Speaker 3:60% off everything 60.
Speaker 2:Yes really 60, 60 that's a real, that's a real black Friday.
Speaker 3:Yeah right, you know, you know a couple other Other like brands doing sales, and it was like 30%.
Speaker 2:I heard it. So my boy, you know him Devion right. So we're tech guys right. Techie techs. We want to get new TVs. There's a Sony TV out there and we have been talking about this TV for about a month and a half, right, and then Black Friday comes and we look, and all they did was was they increased the price? They do that and then they Do a discount to put it at the price that they originally had.
Speaker 3:Heartbroken. That is crazy.
Speaker 2:We were heartbroken.
Speaker 3:What is it called False advertisement?
Speaker 2:There we go out 1000%. What was the? It was a traffic like yesterday. Well, you're busy.
Speaker 3:Yes, I was actually busy Wednesday too the night before. I was surprised because I Posted I was having my sale on Tuesday. So I figured well since, like they know, we're gonna have our sale, we probably won't get any traffic in on Wednesday. Yeah, but I think everyone's trying to get like outfits for Thanksgiving and stuff it's a little good yeah so I had traffic on Wednesday. It's been pretty like.
Speaker 2:How do you come up with yourselves? You do. Who do you strategize? Is it just you, or you have anybody that helps you with?
Speaker 3:No, I do it myself.
Speaker 2:Really, you kind of look at Inventory, you look at, do you look at what other maybe other people are doing as far as maybe black Friday sales? You kind of come up with something there, black Friday specific or just sales, and black Friday specific, and then you can tell me about sales to how you do those things.
Speaker 3:No, I feel like for black Friday's kind of just like everyone's just doing a black Friday sale, so you know you kind of have to yeah, you know. Other sales I feel like you have to like really it just depends on, like whether it's kind of slow or like you have to see what your slow months are like. You know, I know like every business has a slow season and I feel like during that season you have to kind of like strategize with sales and stuff.
Speaker 2:And how do you um Invertory wise you looking up your inventory? Does it have anything to do with your sales that you're doing?
Speaker 3:Sometimes, yeah, like if you order like a big shipment of clothes that are not really like selling you might have to like do a little something with the sales, or like, if you want to refresh the inventory, do a sale.
Speaker 2:Are you one of those people that know, like they have these gurus, these fashion gurus, that kind of know, or maybe even direct what the color is going to be for the season? Are you one of those gurus, like you know, I think it's going to be chemo this fall season. Or, you know, avocado green.
Speaker 3:Not really. I don't think it really into like the colors.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you just kind of more of the styles.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think I got the styles down.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what celebrity for you has a good style. We're gonna remove Kim K from this. See how.
Speaker 3:Good style celebrity yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna take sip of water while we're waiting to.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's kind of hard, because my first pick was gonna be Kim K course.
Speaker 2:What about, like, we'll use her sister? What about Kylie, kylie, yeah, kylie's got some good style.
Speaker 3:For sure I like their style because it's really fashion for it, but it's still sexy, that's what I like.
Speaker 2:Is that what? Okay, yeah, you just asked for my. Okay, fashion forward, but sexy, got you Any? Let's say I like to be random here. Let's do random user heels or sneaker person heels all day, every day.
Speaker 3:I can wear heels all the time. I love sneakers too. I definitely am trying to get more into like wearing sneakers and knowing how to style them better, but I can like put it off it together in like five minutes with the view Nice, okay.
Speaker 2:I am of course. Are you used to wear? Are you a Yeezy?
Speaker 3:I love Yeezy. You love the Yeezy's.
Speaker 2:I know if I can bring up the Yeezy's, but I did get me a pair of Yeezy's. We talking fan, I did get me a pair of Yeezy's. You know, I'm not just. You see, that wall over there, that's all Kurdish right, that's like fifty-five.
Speaker 3:I saw that you like collect them, right yeah?
Speaker 2:It's like I'm not like close to sixty pair of Kurdish's right there. That's cool.
Speaker 3:Club. You deserve a club for this.
Speaker 2:You know I don't like the. You know. You know my Mori crowd can get a little wild, but I did get me some Yeezy's and they're actually pretty, they're comfy right, yeah they got me some. Yeezy's, are you into that mic? What's? They call that Chromatic. What's the word?
Speaker 1:Monochromatic.
Speaker 2:Is that what it is? Do you ever put that that monochromatic? Is that something they still do? I don't.
Speaker 3:Is that like with the different? Like the same color, but different like shades? I think so.
Speaker 2:yeah, see you the one, you the magic magician. I like those looks. Yeah, okay, all right. So are you. The social media help you out a lot with a lot of trends, For sure. Yeah, what's your, what's your favorite platform you like to get on?
Speaker 3:Instagram. Instagram Instagram, I feel like it has a little bit of everything it does, it does. Pictures, video, kind of like the TikTok videos. And then they have like the threads now, I guess. Like kind of like the Twitter thing.
Speaker 2:I'm not on there, but you ever use threads a little bit, Just a little bit no. Not your, you know, are you not on X Twitter? Jesus Christ, not on Twitter either. I don't like the Twitter either. I understand I get to hide behind my tweets.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I get to become like a Boston, an angry Boston person behind my tweets Sports, anything related to gaming. If I'm having issues with my X box connection, you'll never know. It's me, but I hide behind my tweets. I talk mass amounts of shit. Don't judge me, but your process to basically getting your store open I know there's like permanence and stuff you got to go through the city and it's a lot of small hoops and stuff like that. Were any of those processes frustrating? I asked because I know a lot of people, would you know?
Speaker 2:would want to know, want to know, they potentially want to get his store.
Speaker 3:I think I think it depends on what you're trying to open up. Yeah, I feel like, for me at least, it wasn't hard. I didn't have to get permits or anything. Really, I just needed to get my AZ, like business license, x ID number, just like stuff like that.
Speaker 2:When it comes to shopping and inventory, you have multiple suppliers or you got one person that you didn't found. That that's where I go to get my inventory from.
Speaker 3:Multiple.
Speaker 2:Multiple, and you just kind of shop around and kind of see the best price and stuff like that. So pretty much you're my mom when it comes to shopping. She won't. She believes that, okay, that price is there, I'm going to be able to find a better price over here Is that how you work.
Speaker 3:I don't really look too much at the prices. I look more like at the styles.
Speaker 2:The styles and everything is pretty much wholesale, I'm assuming.
Speaker 3:Wholesale yeah.
Speaker 2:Wholesale buying in bulk. Yes, okay, I got you. What is the price range of some of your stuff in there, some of your boutique clothing?
Speaker 3:I feel like, on average, our pieces go for like $45. Yeah, okay, that's like an average. An average.
Speaker 2:Do you have some pieces that you know you got to have a little bit of? You know you got to have a little bit of that?
Speaker 3:If the quality is better than yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:But I've heard my stuff is more on like the what's the word? I don't want to say cheaper, because that's not a good word. But, like what's the word? I'm going to think of Cheaper? I guess like oh, what is that? That was an intro.
Speaker 2:So it's an intro from 90s.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:I think you told me what time your brother's into all that. So if he hears that he'll probably know what that is. He'll know exactly what cartoon that is from.
Speaker 3:I didn't ask him Like what is this? Oh, reasonable, that's the word Like yes, gotcha. Yeah, like more on the like reasonable, yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2:Yeah, jt talked about that and making sure that, like the price was affordable.
Speaker 3:Affordable. Yeah, there you go and rock. Yeah, I get it, I get it. I've heard like yeah, do you wear a lot of your own All the time Is that what you're rocking right now. These are from my boutique.
Speaker 2:You can get the shirt and the jeans and all that stuff.
Speaker 3:The shirts from Zara. Yeah, the heels are from Zara, the pants are from my boutique.
Speaker 2:Okay, so we're going to, definitely if you have like a photo or video.
Speaker 1:We'll put all that stuff up.
Speaker 2:Cause I'm cool like that You're cool like that, I'm cool, like that. I asked you this random question, which was if you were a target fan right, yes. Okay, cool, perfect Cause I'm a target fan, I'll be going after this.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:You're going in target. I asked you this before going to the target. You got three celebrities you can go with, but I'm going to add a twist, because so you could go in shopping in the target with three celebrities, dead or alive. Who are you going with?
Speaker 3:What's the twist?
Speaker 2:You'll find it just a second.
Speaker 3:And they have to be celebrities.
Speaker 2:Dead or alive? Yeah, celebrities, dead or alive. You know what Cause you asked that? Do you have somebody in mind? One person that's not a celebrity and in two that are? Since you asked that, I feel like you got somebody you want to bring into the group right there.
Speaker 3:Well, I was going to say my mom. Okay, so your mom, I always go to target with her anyways, you got your mom's coming. Yeah, no.
Speaker 2:Well, we, we, it's fine we could bring Kim K. We know we, we know we got Kim K coming. So you think your mom and Kim K would would vibe.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they'd be cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so we just going to come up with a third person. Who do you listen to in music?
Speaker 3:Like my favorite artists. Yeah, kanye, that's kind of messy. Can you tell me what you're targeting?
Speaker 2:You didn't say it. Could your mom? Could your mom create a nice environment where everybody can go in?
Speaker 3:Yeah, that would be good. It would be a good environment. Ok, got you.
Speaker 2:The twist is right. The twist is you got to convince one of them to pay for all the stuff that you are putting in the basket. So who would you try to convince to pay for all your stuff? Don't cheat, Don't cheat.
Speaker 3:What do you mean?
Speaker 2:Don't use your mom. You know what I'm saying Because we know moms is going to take care of you. Who would you between Ye and Kim, would you?
Speaker 3:ask to.
Speaker 2:I feel like they would both pay for it.
Speaker 3:You think they would, I think they would, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:OK, you're very I like you. You got good spirit. You said you know what they're going to both pay for this.
Speaker 3:They're going to split it.
Speaker 2:They're going to take care of it. Ok, I got you Some of the influencers that I see rocking your stuff and I see a lot of videos of you, basically you know, touching some things up here, moving some things around here, Lift up some mile. You have a lot of influencers that you work with. How do you set those, set those connections up to come in and and get your content for your store?
Speaker 3:Like the models.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the models, yeah.
Speaker 3:Honestly, if I see like a really pretty girl on Instagram, I think she would, like you know, do good modeling my stuff.
Speaker 2:I just asked, yeah when you sit out of a press pack like what do you usually put in there? How many?
Speaker 3:It depends like, on how big about influencer? They are Like, if they're pretty big, I usually let them pick stuff.
Speaker 1:OK.
Speaker 3:But if I work with, like you know, somebody smaller, I'll send out like our new stuff or you know, some stuff that we already have in the tea.
Speaker 2:So it's really not about numbers for you. It's more about you know if they will look good in the For PR or models for models yeah it's more about how they look. Yeah for sure.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Is there models that like started out with. You know like average amount of followers and like blew up, you know, so cool you still work with them right now.
Speaker 2:That's really cool. How do you, how do you go about coordinating, coordinating the fits, coordinating? I'm assuming you do your own set ups as far as, like, you pick your photographer. Who does your photographer work, your video work?
Speaker 3:Creative Studios.
Speaker 2:Creative Studios.
Speaker 3:Yes, ok, and I remember that is your brother, my brother, that's your brother, he's amazing.
Speaker 2:That's dope. So you get to work with families. You go, does he help you out with turn left right? You know lighting, or do you?
Speaker 3:He does all of it, like the lighting angles, video pictures, yeah.
Speaker 2:I was watching the episode of the Kardashians and Kim was. She was the Doche and Gabbana oh yeah, did you watch that? So you see how she was. She seemed like she needed her home girl, like I think that's her, her stylist maybe. Yeah, but she did hands on yeah. I don't like this or like that. Is that something that you fire out right there, like let's move that, let's take that off and let's put that on?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I do all like this. All of that, yeah, ok, for sure.
Speaker 2:Just I'm a nosy person. I want to know as much as possible. So you look up Cyber Monday is coming.
Speaker 3:You ready.
Speaker 2:Are you ready for Cyber?
Speaker 3:Monday yes, I am.
Speaker 2:Do you deliver all your own? You like, get all the packages together, or do you have like your mom?
Speaker 3:help you out. I do it myself. Sometimes I'll have my mom help me if, like, I need it. It's like a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But for the most part I do it myself, but I might need help this weekend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, did you say, you said, the store is grown.
Speaker 3:It is.
Speaker 2:Each year. Is that messing with you?
Speaker 3:No, it's fine.
Speaker 2:OK, each year you've kind of seen this progression up. What does that feel like to see your store continue to go and go and climb?
Speaker 3:It feels amazing just because I put so much of my time and effort into it. So to see, like, the progress you know, to actually see the progress.
Speaker 2:How do you reward yourself for the progress?
Speaker 3:All of the stuff that comes with it is rewarding to me. You know what I mean. That's all I need is to see, like, what I'm getting from my hard work. Yeah, so.
Speaker 2:Any future, you know, expansions of Samantha's closet, or you have something else you're looking to do and get into.
Speaker 3:I don't know. I've thought about maybe like opening another location on the West side. I've gotten a couple of requests requests for that. That's major, or I'm thinking of doing like something in the mall.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 3:Which I think would be really cool.
Speaker 2:You can't be really cool, for sure.
Speaker 3:I mean we have like the nice stores in the mall, but we don't really have like Samantha's closet.
Speaker 2:Right, right, right. I like that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and for like other, like ventures, I'm like starting to design my own stuff.
Speaker 2:Oh, really, yeah, so I have a really like.
Speaker 3:It's a process. You know, not a perfectionist, so there's stuff that I like sketched out, and you know, and you sketch too.
Speaker 2:You trying to hide that from us. You be sketching too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean just on the iPad, you know.
Speaker 2:That's something you be sketching out. That looks very difficult. I try to move my finger on my phone to do just to just to cut something out on the Instagram story and it looks like I was inside of like an earthquake.
Speaker 3:Oh, my gosh and the grid of lines and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:So that's a real talent, don't?
Speaker 3:Well, I use a stylist, so that's a little stylist.
Speaker 2:I don't have a stylist. I got you, but you said you were starting to design your own stuff. Is that something? You had to have your name on the back and it's your, your ideas, your style.
Speaker 3:I'm so thinking of like a name, because it would be separate from Samantha's closet, yeah. So I'm trying to like get all that together, but so far I've had a couple. I have a couple things sketched out. I have a manufacturer ready. So really. I'm getting ready to buy some samples and hopefully everything works out good.
Speaker 2:You looking for 2024, maybe 2025. 2024 for sure.
Speaker 3:At least like a good three.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Designs, that's dope.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So I'm like so excited for that.
Speaker 2:Any any other lines that they're kind of inspire you. Like you know I, like you know D&G what they do, or I'm not this and I'm not a big fashion guy, so you got to bear with me when I try to drop some names here. D&g, I know, skims is is there?
Speaker 3:I love their aesthetic. Like the creative director is amazing.
Speaker 2:Wait, who's the creative director? I have no clue.
Speaker 3:I follow her on Instagram. I don't know her name.
Speaker 2:OK.
Speaker 3:From the top of my head, but like, maybe killing, I'm gonna find out. Yeah, they kill the campaigns. Like really yeah.
Speaker 2:You follow a lot of their marketing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the marketing is so I love.
Speaker 2:Listen, I'm always about watching people like that. I'm fascinated with sexy red.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 2:Listen, not in the, the department probably think, but the way you take your opportunity and this is your lane Right, you understand what lane you're in, you can capitalize it on. You could kill in it. That's right and that's exactly what we don't stray, we don't try to. You know, market it. You know we don't try to market. You know blue paint. This is where we're at. And this is what we're going to hammer home, so I love.
Speaker 3:I love her.
Speaker 2:I appreciate how they just was like this is what we're going to do, this is where we're going to stay and this is how we're going to kill it. And she was in the club last night and motherfuckers enjoyed themselves.
Speaker 3:That's why I'm sure?
Speaker 2:So yeah, do you follow a lot of the, the marketing that that scams does?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I love everything they put out. I love everything.
Speaker 2:I love them so much. So let me ask you something. All right, at some point, at some point, I'm going to put you to the test, and I'm just being random. We're going to put it to the test on the coffee. All right, I go back to the, because I talk about coffee all the time. I'm a coffee nut. All right, I'm going to put you to the test. I'm going to give you two places to go to. We're going to see you know if you really know coffee, because one of them is awful.
Speaker 3:OK.
Speaker 2:One of them is God. I wouldn't. I wouldn't send Satan to that place. You know what I'm saying. The other place, that's a home run. We're going to find out if you really a coffee kind of sewer or not. You know, if you plan me or not. Ok, give me one, one random fact about you, just something random.
Speaker 3:Random.
Speaker 2:Random, random, carlisle.
Speaker 3:There's a lot of random facts about me.
Speaker 2:Last time you told me, you know Star Wars.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I watch the, but like the older Star Wars.
Speaker 2:That's. But see, that's random, like when I see you, how do you?
Speaker 3:I'm 25.
Speaker 2:First of all, man 25 own store.
Speaker 3:I mean thank you. What is?
Speaker 2:happening. That's really dope, but 25.
Speaker 3:Twenty five Just turn 25 in September. Sad Twenty Don't be sad.
Speaker 2:You got a long way to go, a long way to go, but you know about Star Wars and not the Judge of Bookbites cover. I put my hand up because you're not supposed to judge a bookbites cover. I just wouldn't think you would know about Star Wars, and shame on me, right? Because you know, you watch some of the Star Wars and I'm impressed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I used to watch them with my brother. Yeah, he had like the whole like movie set. I'll just do everything he did.
Speaker 2:That's cool to connection with your families. That how is that? It's a big deal.
Speaker 3:Yes, we're super close. I love my family.
Speaker 2:How was the Thanksgiving family activity and was it was the typical last fun or was there some arguments in the background? How is that energy?
Speaker 3:No, I feel like we enjoy our downtime, so it's really just like super relaxed vibes yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, y'all, whole family, just a bunch of go-getters and.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I got it from them, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Mom's a big inspiration.
Speaker 3:For sure.
Speaker 2:What does your mom do?
Speaker 3:She is an interior designer.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 3:So she kind of helps people design their home, yeah.
Speaker 2:Is that where you got your color coordinating and your style from I?
Speaker 3:feel like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:She was a big deal on that.
Speaker 3:And then yeah.
Speaker 2:She help right now With what I mean we can go oh definitely.
Speaker 3:She's at my shop right now and she's holding it down. She's holding it down. My customers love her.
Speaker 2:Do you pair?
Speaker 3:her. Yeah, you do pair her and close. Yeah, I took care of her. She's good, that's cool.
Speaker 2:You go bring her some lunch.
Speaker 3:Of course, okay, always ask her.
Speaker 2:You being a good daughter right now. Yes, or let me ask you is there anything that you would like these people to know about Samantha's closet? You could tell them anything you want to know about Samantha's closet. You could tell them you know what you got coming up in the future. Oh, we actually talked about having an influencer mixer. Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:That's a good idea.
Speaker 2:You invite? Do you how many people you work with in the city? You feel like that. Have you know? Pr your clothes for you?
Speaker 3:I don't know. I think I only have one girl here that I sent PR to oh nice, and then my models.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, I guess I would say yeah, your models here, how many models you feel like you?
Speaker 3:worked with, worked with yeah, let's see About like five girls.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nice. That I still like work with, work with right now. Yeah, those are your girls right there, samantha's closet girls.
Speaker 3:That's dope. I love them. What is that? That is funny.
Speaker 2:What is that?
Speaker 3:I don't even know how that happened. Oh my God, that is impressive. Wow, I wonder if that picked up. I hope not. That was scary. I can see, listen.
Speaker 2:I didn't get a chance to see you. I'm not sure. I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure.
Speaker 3:I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure I didn't get a chance to see you.
Speaker 3:I was like I was like, I was like I don't know, but you did that.
Speaker 2:That was actually a video that I edit.
Speaker 3:Wow, this video will pop up.
Speaker 2:Keep that. I'm gonna keep that, cause that's.
Speaker 3:I love random moments that kind of scared me.
Speaker 2:Did you jump a little bit? A little bit, I will look at it to see if it's I was just like I think he's hyped for this.
Speaker 3:I'm not this closet girl.
Speaker 2:There it is. We got to, like we got to. We've got an event with you and you spend.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, that was so fun. Yeah, fun at night. You're like you don't really, you know you'd be chilling, you know, but you had fun at night. I did. I had so much fun. Like the bottle. Girls looked so cute.
Speaker 2:There's not this closet little outfits.
Speaker 3:That's cool, Fun.
Speaker 2:So the mixer part of this. We're gonna talk about this mixer part. So what would you imagine your mixer being like? I know it's gonna be at this amount of the closet right. What would you imagine? What type of drink would you have? What type of food would you have in there?
Speaker 3:Definitely mimosas, the mimosas, mimosas, like some, like I don't know, I got to think about the food. Yeah, gotta get something catering Nice.
Speaker 2:You have a favorite spot up here. You be eating it.
Speaker 3:Favorite spot? What do you like going? I feel like it depends on what the type of food.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I like pizza, it's my favorite food.
Speaker 2:So, listen, you can never go wrong with pizza. Ah, it brings joy.
Speaker 3:Pizza's like my comfort.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 3:I love pizza.
Speaker 2:So you know I'm gonna ask you cause I like to. I'm trying to know here we all trying to know what is your favorite pizza spot in the city.
Speaker 3:Pizza I like Barl's pizza.
Speaker 2:Barl's pizza not bad at all. Grammaldi's.
Speaker 3:I don't even have a trend.
Speaker 2:You haven't tried Grammaldi's.
Speaker 3:Where's that at?
Speaker 2:They have one. There's one off of I-10 in Ray Road and they have another one somewhere it's close, I don't know where, the other one there, I-10 in Ray Road, but Grammaldi's. It's fantastic. I can't eat it no more cause the plant based, but fantastic. Let me try that. Freak Bros.
Speaker 3:Where's that?
Speaker 2:Right down here, uh-uh.
Speaker 3:I need to go there. If it's down here, I'm definitely gonna pick some off, did you, did you?
Speaker 2:oh listen, samantha, will you tell everybody where they can find you? If you wanna, let them know where the store is at again. We've been chatting for a while now and I just want to not keep you for too long.
Speaker 3:Oh, no, I'm okay.
Speaker 2:But yeah, tell them where you know where they can find your social media in your store.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so our Instagram is Samantha's closet and we're located at 28, 29, north 15th Ave.
Speaker 2:Nice it looks crazy.
Speaker 3:And your Instagram's and your my Instagram is Samantha Lopez, with four Zs Nice and my TikTok is Samantha Lopez.
Speaker 1:Nice.
Speaker 2:I am Thaddeus Shade. You're listening to Seasonable Cloud. You can find me on Instagram at Thaddeusshade. You can find me on Twitter at Thaddeus Shade, and I'm also on TikTok, but I don't do anything in there for real, so it's not that much fun, but maybe one day I do a skit. I'm not for sure you know what I'm saying, but, samantha, I wanna say thank you very much. Thank you, pram. Coming through, oh yes, always. All of energy's fantastic. Your store is dope. The content you create is dope.
Speaker 1:I wish we talked more.
Speaker 2:I should talk more about content, because you do really good content. Thank you If you're listening, you're watching. Go check out her social media. Her content is really dope and we are out. We can go live lives and enjoy and eat.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna go try that pizza spot right now. Freak bros Peace.
Speaker 2:Bam, yay, bam, thank you.