We met Dallas Austin at the Project trade show today. Funny thing is, his studio is down the street from ours in the ATL, and it took all this time for us to finally run into each other in Las Vegas. He was repping his own line, Rowdy. Thanks to Mike Mora with Rowdy for hooking us up with a sweet Rowdy Lightning Bolt tee.

We also saw Lauren and Whitney from the Hills, but they looked really busy working on their respective lines, so we weren’t able to ask for a photo op. I guess I need to brush up on my paparazzi style photo skills(for the sake of the blog), or not.

Anyway, we learned tons about the industry today and we’re realizing there’s a lot of work to do. I’m eager to get back the Dirty South to get started. But for now, there’s nothing else to do but party Vegas style!

More photos from today after the jump.


The registration line

Giant signage

Supposedly the dude in the middle here is Ed Hardy. People were following him around with video cameras. He also had a huge entourage of randoms wearing his tees.

The convention hall

Wanna draw attention to your product? Have babes with body paint stand right in front of your booth!

On to Magic…

This was the list of all the important streetwear lines. They had their own section inside the streetwear section that separated the best from the rest. Hopefully we’ll be showing in this area when we come back.

Georgios with one of DUB Magazine’s showcars

Georgios stands in the entryway to the show. Booths as far as the eye can see…

Looking for the right vendors in the guide

In case you’re forced to “Ball on a Budget”

The Dickie’s booth was huge. This was the length of half of it.

Antenna Magazine reading area

Sad but true. If you want to sell something, use hot girls to move your product.

The streetwear section

The streetwear section

More babes…I’m telling you…

Yours truly making a call to Farshad and the Standard boys.

The DJ was surprisingly good

More streetwear

More streetwear

More streetwear

More streetwear