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Equihua

Brenda Equihua and her family get ready for their biggest show of the year: the annual ComplexCon street wear conference. Will her Mexican inspired jackets be a hit? This is Los Cool Kids with Los Angeles based fashion brand Equihua.
Show transcript
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Good by me too.
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We're doing something cool.
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We're out here in that key while booth, I got one of the coolest
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jackets over here going on.
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You feel me?
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Look, feels like a hug right now.
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Feels a ok.
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You got your hot jackets, honestly.
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Ah, how about your boot?
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Where should we start?
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What's up everyone?
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This is Brenda Awa.
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Come into my studio.
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It's like the Willy Wonka of Kobe Hawe.
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It's like eating bread like the carbs of fashion.
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This is my sister Rebecca Hewa.
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She dragged me into this and I'm very fortunate to be here and
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my niece Angelina Lavis.
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I told them I do everything they don't want to do.
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Rebecca is technically our cutter.
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So she cuts everything and she's here for emotional support
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She makes sure that I'm not like losing my mind.
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That's her main job is to like, bring me down from the clouds
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into reality.
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Always bring a spare to me, like making beautiful clothes
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It's like poetry.
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These are some of the things that we're taking a complex con
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They're in two museums right now.
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It's really exciting.
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That's why being a complex con is so cool.
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Too.
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This is our third booth at Complex car.
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The first one we did was a Carniceria.
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The second year we made the Casitas this year we're making
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Santi Ali inspired booth.
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Santee Alley is like where you see the illest, most popular
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shit.
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If it's in, that's where it's at Santee Alley first.
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I love this area so much.
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It's so cool over here.
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Long time.
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No.
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See.
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Right.
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Look how cool it is.
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These monas are everything.
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There's nothing like elite or exclusive about being at Santi
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all.
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But there is going to complex hunt.
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I love playing on contrasting ideas.
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The part that I'm gonna build a little bit more on is the toy
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section.
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So we're gonna be looking for like a Perito, you know, the little
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Perito that are in downtown.
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They're like, I don't wanna have those at the booth, but I wanna
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cover it in Covia.
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This one's cute.
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We're two days away from complex time.
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She wants to make a fucking, I feel like it's such a good sacrifice
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Look at what we're doing right now.
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So we get four of these.
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We teach each other patience, right?
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My coworkers are another, we always try to do things in a way
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that gives it our touch and like our artistry and our interpretation
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of this world.
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So it's kind of like magical realism, the real part which is
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Santi Ali.
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And then there's like the magical part which is the touch that
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we give the theme.
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This is our Mundos candle.
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Be careful because you might end up somewhere else.
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You know what I mean?
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Mundos means worlds.
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When you walk into the booth, I wanted it to look like you were
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in the alleys.
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Very like arts and crafts.
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The way that we do our boots.
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I saw.
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Yeah, Mexican Innovations right here.
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We don't have a store.
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So that's like our opportunity to really like get to see like
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an in real life reaction.
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Can you describe how it feels?
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It feels super, super warm dick.
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Where's the menudo and the beer?
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Cozy?
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Cozy.
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I feel like a true Mexican.
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We tend to do pretty well because our products are unique.
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This is the jacket that beats all jackets the inside these
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zippers legit kill the zipper.
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It's butter.
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000 Hey, hey, hey, who, who give me the zipper?
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Zipper, zipper zipper.
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How much is a piece like this?
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Money talks baby.
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Try it on and go buy one.
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I feel like I'm a final boss in a video game that hasn't come
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out yet.
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You need one of these bad boys on the shorties with it.
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Always been the sea though, bro.
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Always.
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You know what I'm saying?
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This is the demon time edition.
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This is law school kids.
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We lit.