Fresno clothing designer set to drop new ‘Experiment’ collection on Friday

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A Fresno native’s garments brand name has absent around the globe, but he hasn’t neglected his roots.

Shawn Rojas uncovered his enthusiasm for art, specifically building garments, as a scholar at Central High College.

“It was remaining in a band and needing to layout merch for our band,” Rojas mentioned. “So as soon as I kind of acquired how to do that, and discovered that it was not extremely hard to do, I just form of went from there.”

In 2014, Rojas graduated from higher university with “Experiment” – a garments manufacturer he shared with the Fresno local community.

“We opened up a pop-up store in downtown Fresno,” he reported. “We did that each individual thirty day period for Artwork Hop. So we did that with a warehouse called Artwork Home.”

Rojas’s layouts amazed a effectively-identified skate business. In 2017, he took his skills to the Los Angeles spot, in which he managed the company’s clothing layouts.

Having said that, on the side, Rojas was generally centered on developing his own brand.

“We’ve received a significant audience in New York, Florida, through the Midwest,” Rojas said. “Then just recently, in the earlier year, we have been shipping abroad.”

Driving the fabric, the stitching and the graphics — Rojas reported his manufacturer is rooted in his really like for his group.

“Fresno is my residence, no matter exactly where I’m at,” he stated.

Each day he is grateful to have an opportunity to share Fresno with the earth.

“They normally have the identical reaction like ‘Fresno? We did not know nearly anything was taking place out there.’ So it really is definitely thrilling to form of demonstrate that there is good quality stuff occurring right here, that it just isn’t just a little farm town, that we have a group, we have creatives,” claimed Rojas.

The clothing designer makes an effort to appear back to Fresno each and every time he drops a new clothing assortment.

On Friday, he’ll host a pop-up shop at Root Typical in downtown Fresno from 7-10 p.m.

Remain up to day with the brand on Experiment’s internet site or Instagram.