BLACK SEA IS DONE!
Hello, everyone! Justin Lloyd, here. For the past three to four years, I have been responsible for Black Sea Apparel and nearly everything involved with it. I've decided after much thought that it is time to shut down Black Sea Apparel. It's been an amazing journey but it's place in my life has come to an end.
Why is this happening?! Well, read up!
I've decided that my passion and talents more so reflect art than retail. I am concentrating harder on freelancing graphic design jobs through Black Sea Design as well as looking into a career as an interior designer.
The purpose of this clothing line was to make art, spread it by means of fashion and hope that it moves and affects people positively, all the while being able to support myself financially. I've realized that music is really the thing that I am best at when it comes to pure self-expression and the spreading of positive ideas and thoughts. With art, I can do just the same, but I am a lot better with design projects alone than I am designing and then handling a retail business on top of it.
I appreciate all of the support I've received from you all! I'm so happy to see so many bands wearing Black Sea at their shows. I'm so happy to see how the positive messages that influenced the designs affect people. There are several Black Sea tattoos out there and that just blows my mind! I want to thank anyone who has modeled for any of the photos (Kyle Durfey, Kris Fulton, Megan McGaughey, Lisa Wolfgang, Tommy Hallett, Helen Kendall, Jacob Seaton, Haley Meyers, Dominique Wilson, so many more...) as well as anyone who has done photos for me when I haven't felt like doing it (Megan Lloyd, Kevin Wildt, Dominique Wilson, Megan McGaughey). A HUGE thanks goes out to John Settino for being there for me through all the technical difficulties I've come up against with web related stuff. He's also one of Black Sea's biggest customers! ALSO! Thank you to Nick Roccanti and Alex Tchekmeian for all of the support, business advice and help getting my butt in gear with this company!
I know what you're thinking... if Black Sea is done... that must mean EVERYTHING IS ON CLEARANCE! Yea? YEA! You know how we just had a huge holiday sale where everything was cheaper than it's ever been? Well, we're out-doing ourselves again! $13 SHIRTS! That is CHEAPER than you can even get a PLAIN American Apparel shirt, and ours come with sweet designs on them! $14 v-necks, $25 hoodies! That's 10 bucks cheaper than our hoodies were for the last sale!
SO GET TO IT! GET SHOPPING! THEBLACKSEAONLINESTORE.COM!!!
12-27-08
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The huge sale we had was a great success. We made plenty of room for what next year has to bring. Right now we're running a short sale to celebrate the new year. Use the discount code BLACKSEANEWYEAR at check-out to get 15% off of your entire order! Stay in touch with us. New stuff is coming!
Love, Justin
12-09-08
OUR BIGGEST SALE EVER!
OMGZ we lowered all of our prices TREMENDOUSLY! $16 shirts?! $17 v-necks?! $35 hoodies?!?! Yes, that is right. Get your holiday shopping on while this huge sale lasts. Some of our items were lowered in price as low as $12. You're not going to see a sale like this for... probably the rest of your short lives! SO GET A MOVE ON! Happy holidays, lovely people.
Love, Justin
12-01-08
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Not much to say right now besides the fact that we are still going strong through this tough economic time. Working on new designs, and lowering prices on all of our merch for the holidays. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Stay in touch!
Love, Justin
10-12-08
PRICES LOWERED! CAFE PRESS! FEATURED ARTICLES!
Due to the economy sucking ass right now, and as a thank you to all of you guys, we lowered ALL of our prices for regular, non-clearance items! Go check out our online store here to see some great savings and some awesome shirts!
Check out some of the online zines and blogs we've been featured in lately. Leave them all comments and tell them you appreciate what they've said! Set Your Style & Hide Your Arms.
We've set up a small cafepress.com store so that we can bring you some hats, bags, clocks, mugs, posters, calenders and more! Check it out! The clock is my favorite. cafepress.com/blackseaapparel.
Love, Justin
10-01-08
NEW LINE! NEW SITE!
Welcome to the brand new Black Sea website! As you can see, we've finally launched our new line. A week early! Click HERE to go to the online store. We've got 5 new unisex shirts, a new girl's shirt, a new hoodie and 3 new posters. We also have released the new Batcomputer album! Only $6. If you like ethereal, ambient, beautiful emotional music, you'll like BC!
I want to thank a lot of people for sticking with me to keep Black Sea running strong. Staci Fanelli, Kalen Fry, Dominique Wilson, and John Settino in particular. Without them, this new line wouldn't be possible. Over the past year, we've had our Myspace account deleted numerous times, and we had a ton of office equipment (thousands of dollars worth) stolen from us. However, we're still kicking ass and bringing you awesome stuff to wear. Thanks for all of your support, and keep in touch with us because we will be re-printing plenty of our old stuff soon as well as coming out with another new hoodie within the next few months!
Love, Justin
