Clandestination952's Journals

HUGE SIDEWALK SALE SATURDAY JUNE 13Th

SOOOO

we have been raiding the vaults here at Clandestine, and we have decided that we want to share all the goodies we have found, with you all at our sidewalk sale!

This is one day only, discounted prices on some amazing stuff!!! call the store for any questions at 773-857-3525

SEEE YOU ON SATURDAY!

Store Holiday Hours! and info about our power hour 1/2 off super sale this sunday!!!!!

This post pertains to the Landmark store in Chicago ONLY! NOT THE ONLINE STORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are formally announcing that the Clandestine Industries Landmark store will be closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas day as well as New Years Eve and New Years Day!

Also, THIS SUNDAY WILL BE THE LAST DAY BEFORE XMAS TO SHOP AT THE CLANDESTINE STORE IN CHICAGO!

since we know some of you have left your shopping til the last minute :), everything in the store on Sunday between 3 and 6 pm will be half off!!!!

Again, THIS AMAZING DEAL IS ONLY AT THE STORE IN CHICAGO!

CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU GUYS AND HAVE A HAPPY HOLIDAY!!!!!

Clandestine Industries hair stylist Brandon Roc featured in the Chicago Tribune!

Here is the link to the story and we will also post the story below! To make an appointment, call 1-773-857-3525 for an appointment and don't forget we offer a 20% off student discount!

The link: http://mobile.chicagotribune.com/detail.jsp?key=191625&rc=liv&full=1

The story:

Rockstar hair

By Kevin Pang
Tribune reporter
December 11, 2008

I've forever been a Supercuts kind of guy, a 15-minute "No. 3, please" clipper job, the type of no-fuss barbershop that knocks a few dollars off if you show up after 9 a.m. and before noon.

There was also a time when I wore T-shirts with commemorative dates (Wrestlemania--April 2, 2000). White gym socks with black dress shoes. Allow that patch of real estate between my eyebrows to idly propagate.

But then, women entered my life. No longer could I mask laziness as cool indifference, or unintentional bedhead as intentional bedhead. And with that, the last vestige of my "schlub life" was forced into the light. So long, Supercuts.

In search of a new look and wanting an alternative to the "walk-in, no wait" lifestyle, I was intrigued by Clandestine Industries. Steps from Wrigley Field, this Lakeview salon would just be another hipster space with neatly arranged hair products, if not for its celebrity attachment.

One of its owners is Pete Wentz, he of the Wilmette pop-rock band Fall Out Boy, the most famous bass player a 15-year-old has ever heard of. Fittingly, the salon offers, among other hair services, an eyeliner treatment for guys called Rockstar Eyes--Wentz himself is a practitioner of this (more on this later).

Clandestine Industries, a hybrid clothing store/hair salon, models itself after the Wentz aesthetic, which I could only describe as a depressed bat.

Upon closer inspection, the Wentz motif is dark and kitschy, sinister and cute, industrial and slinky, the '80s decade and this current one.

The salon windows are opaque, save for a heart-shaped opening in the middle of a bat design. Look inside and you'll see a chandelier hanging above a tabletop arcade game. Cans of strawberry, orange and grape-flavored Crush are for sale. If some rich sugar-buzzed kid who loved The Cure got to design his bedroom, this is what it would look like.

It just so happens the hair stylist, a mohawked bro named Brandon Roc (awesome name), fits right into the Wentz sensibility.

In a former life, Roc, now 29, was a foreman for the grounds department in Franklin Park--fixing water main breaks, scrapping dead squirrels, etc. Creative impulses brimmed over at age 23, and Roc enrolled at Pivot Point International, the esteemed styling academy. And since April, his boss has been Wentz.

Since it is natural law that women are attracted to rock stars, I asked Roc: "Turn me into a Fall Out Boy." I gave no further instructions.

Roc used terms that Esmerelda from my drive-by barbershop never used: dimensions, layering, movement. (Come to think of it, Esmerelda wasn't much of a talker.)

"For your hair," Roc said, "it's all about supplying the right texture with different types of shears."

Here he became a jazz improviser. I'd say Roc was more Miles Davis than Charlie Parker--he'd step back to survey the scene, then interject with a snip here, snip there. It was all very meticulous and detailed, and the whole styling took 45 minutes and cost ($35). (Ben Mollin, who came in second place on Bravo's "Shear Genius," is also a stylist here. His services are a bit pricier.)

And the result? It's hard to describe hair in words. I certainly wasn't used to my hair standing on end, like I stuck a fork in an outlet (in the best possible way). The sides were angled forward, and the hair line in the back was slanted, making it, in his words, less "corporate." But patted down and combed, I was ready for the working world again.

Roc told me his mantra is versatility, and that every stylist in the world should strive for this as well.

"You take into consideration the client's occupation. In the business world, they can still be clean cut and white collar, then on the weekend, with a bit of product, they can be edgy and trendy."

I added a hoodie from the store, a T-shirt and with my new haircut, took a self-portrait. I wore this to work the next day and someone asked if I was part of a school outing. Mission accomplished.

There's also the $15 Rockstar Eyes treatment, a.k.a. Guyliner. (There's a reason I saved this as an afterthought.) When I told a female friend about the possibility of this, her brows furrowed and said not all men can pull the look off.

She was right: It turned my already almond-shaped eyes into sunflower seeds. Which isn't to say it's not worth it for the right person, except for me--I didn't want to walk around looking like a depressed bat.

kpang@tribune.com

Clandestine Industries

952 W. Newport Ave.

773-857-3525, clandestineindustries.com

Batheart Bar custom made sale this weekend at the Chicago store only!!!

Hey everyone!

So everyone over at the Landmark store has enjoyed doing these weekend holiday specials so much that this weekend they have decided to hook you guys up with some discounts on Batheart bar custom mades!

This Friday through sunday, get your first two logos free when you purchase a t shirt or hoodie to be custom made.

Pretty easy, right?!?!

Alright, can't wait to see you all this weekend!

Hoodie sale this weekend! 12/5-12/7...in store only!

MASSIVE HOODIE SALE THIS WEKEND ONLY AT THE CHICAGO LANDMARK STORE ONLY!!!!

HEY EVERYONE!

SO DO WE HAVE SOME SUDDEN BUT AMAZING NEWS FOR YOU!!!!

THE LANDMARK STORE IN CHICAGO IS HAVING A MASSIVE HOODIE SALE THIS WEEKEND!

WHEN YOU BRING IN A TOY THAT WILL BE DONATED TO TOYS FOR TOTS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GET ANY HOODIE (EXCLUDING BAT HEART BAR...THAT'S COMING SOON ; P ) FOR JUST $40!!!!

THERE IS A LIMIT OF 3 PER CUSTOMER, BUT HOW AWESOME IS THAT!!!!

SEE YOU ALL THIS WEEKEND IN THE WINDY CITY!

Super stoked for tonight!

So we are way excited because tonight we will be taking part in the How Lakeview Looks runway show tonight in Chicago! We have 5 models all wearing 4 outfits each and it should be pretty amazing! We will be sure to post pics and hopefully you can model for us some day!

Your friends and lovers at the Clandestine Industries Landmark store!

Help us help our friends over at Angels & Kings NYC win Paper Magazines's Best Bar 2008!!!

Hey everyone!!!

Our friends over at Angels & Kings NYC are up for Paper Magazines best bar in NYC award for 2008 and we would totally love and appreciate if you could take a second and head over there and submit a vote (or a 100 :) ) so that we can help them win!!! the link is below!

http://papermag.com/?section=peopleschoice08

Thanks so much in advance and tell your friends and cousins and nephews and neighbors to do it too!!!!

Here is the link again!

http://papermag.com/?section=peopleschoice08

The Halloween party was a hit!!!

We had sooooooo much fun today!!! Thank you to everyone that came out and helped make today such a success! We love you all and cannot wait for our next big party with all of you!

Mummy Hoodie preview pics now up!!!

The pictures of the mummy hoodie are now up! if you check out www.clandestineindustries.com, click on the drama section and the click on "news" it will come up as the most recent post!

<3
Your friends and lovers at Clandestine Industries

Mummy Hoodie preview pics now up!!!

The pictures of the mummy hoodie are now up! if you check out www.clandestineindustries.com, click on the drama section and the click on "news" it will come up as the most recent post!

<3
Your friends and lovers at Clandestine Industries