Designer: Tina Shoulders
Product: Laidback Home Pillows
Link: Laidbackhome.com
Tina had the audience in stitches. At our 2nd Meetup, Tina told us the inspiration behind her company - bringing fashionable homewares to the hip-hop community - and gave us the details behind her hot pillow line - real, soft denim, exposed zippers and a scented sachet within one pillow for the man whose home could use a little help...
Her newest designs feature skulls made out of crystals against black denim and printed patterns that get more abstract than her first rock and roll silhouettes.
Although these pillows are born in the Bronx, we could easily see them slipping downtown into a trendy nightclub or restaurant bar. The black denim with the shiny zipper would be a total surprise set against downtown cool.
-Laidback Home
- Pillows of denim, steel zippers, with silkscreen and embroidery
Laidback is a popculture and hip hop inspired home decor brand.The laidback aesthetic was born from the street fashions and trends of hip hop and pop culture’s fashion forward teens. The collection is all about the look and feel of the streets, and nothing drives fashion more than denim.
Laidback is all about representing the real you in the place that you spend the largest portion of your time..your room. When it comes to denim.. You live in it, why not chill on it?
Laidback pillows are like your favorite pair of jeans, they only get better in time. Like a great pair of jeans they wear with time, giving you a softer more comfortable spot to lean back and chill on.
All printed pillow covers are silk screened and printed on 100% cotton denim. All of the pillows except for the 24X24" pillow are designed with a contrast denim back, giving you two pillow options for the price of 1. The pillows presently come in three sizes. 12X16, 18x18, and 24x24
All of the pillows come with an exposed metal zipper keeping the design true to a real pair of jeans.
All styles can be customized with rhinestone monnograms or mix and match back and fronts to stay consistent with your rooms present vibe.
© 2009 Apartment Therapy
Love 'em, Tina!
view k in ditmas's profile
I think they would really work in a guys apartment.
view LaDonnaNichole's profile
I like some of the designs but I don't get the jeans connection. Maybe the collection has outgrown that concept.
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To answer Mr. Green..alll of the pillows are made of 100% denim or have some denim in the design . So they are like dressing your room in jeans.
view laidback chick's profile
Okay, but they don't particularly look like denim or jeans. Maybe they should just stand on their own merits. I am curious as to whether the material is organic and what they're filled with.
view MrGreen's profile
They are 100% cotton denim and the fills are hypoallergenic poly inserts.
view laidback chick's profile
I've seen these pillows up close and personal....hot, hot, hot!! The unexpected flavor of the exposed, chunky zipper and unmistakeable quality of the denim allows them to shine in interiors from funky to ultra-modern. Love 'em!
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