Showing posts with label Justin Tranter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Justin Tranter. Show all posts

Thursday, January 8, 2009

FETTY JEWELRY

Semi Precious Weapons’ eclectic frontman Justin Tranter is more than just a singer for the New York City-based garage/glam-rock outfit —he’s also winning rave reviews for his recently launched jewelry line, Fetty Of Brooklyn.




The Fetty (an abbreviation for “Fucked up and prETTY”) collection currently has three distinct lines—Fetty, Fame and Precious Weapons—featuring unique pieces for all budgets and tastes in various settings (gold, silver, brass, nickel, etc.).

“I want Fetty to encompass a classic beauty, opting for subtly over showiness,” explains Fetty founder Tranter. “However, I am taking the concept of being classic one step further by oxidizing the metals and incorporating strong, contrasting symbols…”

Morbid pendants of weapons, skulls and bugs make up a large part of Fetty’s items.

However, Tranter does show a more sensitive side with his Braille pieces—each bangle, bracelet, ring and necklace features a word (like “baby,” “magnetic,” “love” and “precious”) spelled out in Braille via diamonds or crystals.



My favorite collection, though, is the Precious Weapons one. The necklaces, bracelets and earrings each consist of two pendants: 1) a weapon; and 2) a heart that has been damaged by said weapon. For example: The “Butcher’s Wife” piece has a knife and a heart with slashes through it; The “Love Bites” piece (which I bought for my best friend, the dental hygienist, for Christmas) has tooth and then a heart with a bite taken out of it; and the “Heart Beat” piece has a hammer and a dented heart. Very cute & creative!

Fetty is loved by celebrities like Rihanna, Lady GaGa, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kate Moss and more.

For more information, visit Fetty online.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

SEMI PRECIOUS PUBLICITY

It's the first day of CMJ and my first order of business was checking out the "Everything PR Minus the Music" panel. Going into it, I was completely perplexed as to why in god's name Justin Tranter from Semi Precious Weapons was part of this panel among four publicity/marketing experts. I was also kind of shocked that the room was mostly filled with NYU students, rather than actual publicists wanting to hear what their colleagues had to say. 

After I finished rolling my eyes to myself at Mister  Semi Precious Weapons, I actually started listening to what he had to say...and damnit...he knows his shit. He's very involved in branding his band and jewelry line and is pretty darn savvy on the pr/marketing front. 

Anyway, some of my fav quotes from his publicity advice today:

"Perez Hilton is King so I made him one of my Best Friends...and I have no shame in that!"

"Hipster press must die...I'd rather be in US Weekly than Pitchfork."

"People post fucked up [things like] 'fuck this fag.' I say 'ok, well line up!" (on bad press, especially on blogs)