JAWBREAKINGCLOTHING WORDS & PHOTOS BY CATHERINE POWELL “Sometimes I feel like I’m the Taylor Swift of creating shirts,” Aly Silverio, the founder and designer of Jawbreaking Clothing says, laughing, as we sit at a table in the press area at Van’s Warped Tour in Uniondale, N.Y. Aly may be the hardest working person on Warped Tour. Earlier, while sitting in the Jawbreaking merch tent, set up between designer Samii Ryan and the band Avion Roe, I’m amazed by how well this girl can work a crowd. When there are people standing
at her table ready to order shirts, she’s talking to all of them at once. When there is no one waiting for her attention, she’s saying hello to people passing by and giving them free stickers. What’s most impressive about Jawbreaking are the designs, which Aly creates with her mom in her bedroom in Cary, N.C. As Aly and I take a walk away from the crowded row of tents set up between stages, she tells me what inspired some of her favorite designs.
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As last year’s Warped Tour was nearing its end, Aly faced a lot of doubt from the people around her when it came to Jawbreaking. No one believed she could do it and they told her she was wasting her time. At the end of the tour she decided she was going to wander and didn’t care if she got lost along the way.
At one stop on last year’s Warped Tour, Aly was texting her mom about how she had just met Phone Calls From Home and they were really nice guys. Her mom responded, telling her that “band boys were bad news and trouble.” They then decided that message would make a cool shirt and wished they thought of it sooner. The shirt was designed as soon as Aly got home and was released as part of the fall line.
“I literally don’t want to grow up… ever,” Aly says. As cliché as it sounds, she wants to be forever young. When it came to designing the shirt she chose to put an infinity sign in the middle to represent “forever” and placed the words in a circle so it never ends.
On Warped Tour 2011, the people Aly was riding with ditched her and her friends. Aly, not being a quitter, decided to finish the tour one way or another. They “gypsied” around with a bunch of different bands to get their shirts and themselves to the next few tour stops. The bands they rode with would joke about how “the gypsies were back, all for the love of rock and roll.” The shirt made it into the fall line. NKDMAG.COM
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