Did Pelle Pelle go out of business?

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It seems like Pelle Pelle don't make leathers no more. :ohhh:They don't even have an American website selling leathers no more. All they have is a European site selling JCPenny style urban gear and no leathers. :mjcry:I find it odd that Pelle fell off that quick. :jbhmm:NYC and Midwest (Chicago and Detroit) nikkas known for rocking Pelle leathers hard. Pelle's been big in Hip Hop since the late 80's/early 90's. If it's true it's sad because Pelle was one of the last black owned urban brands to have a big following. And Pelle made some leathers over the years that could be considered works of art. Pelle outlasted Fubu, Phat Farm, Sean John and all of the late 90's and early 2000's hot urban brands because Pelle always catered to the black city dwellers in NYC and the Midwest as well as all over the country throughout the 90's and 2000's. Their leathers were distinctive unlike Eurocac leathers which are plain and flavorless. But it seems that now (racist) European fashion houses have become defacto urban brands. Hood nikkas would rather wear Gucci, Louis, Fendi and Versace even though many of them probably wouldn't be allowed to buy anything in person at a racist ass Gucci, Louis or Versace store. :stopitslime: I haven't been up to NYC during the colder months in years. I remember at the beginning of the decade Pelle was still going strong up there. Has Pelle really died in NYC, Chicago and the rest of the Midwest which kept the brand alive for literally decades with black dollars going to a black owned clothing label.
 

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Them joints was expensive. And the trends dont last long. Same thing with the Avirex Jackets from the 90s. Another big leather company marketed to Blacks. They had a white owner and they stopped selling urban leathers one day overnight it seemed. I believe they're still in business but sell replica ww2 bomber jackets.
 
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Them joints was expensive. And the trends dont last long. Same thing with the Avirex Jackets from the 90s. Another big leather company marketed to Blacks. They had a white owner and they stopped selling urban leathers one day overnight it seemed. I believe they're still in business but sell replica ww2 bomber jackets.

Nah, but Pelle was a staple in NYC and the Midwest. NY nikkas and Pelle leathers is actually a meme for real. :russ: From the early 90's to recently. Back in the early 90's, literally every rapper on TV had one on in a video. Will Smith wore one on Fresh Prince. Gang Starr, Nas, Biggie, Jay Z, Mobb Deep etc. either name dropped Marc Buchanan leathers or had a pic wearing one. All of them drill rappers from Chicago wore em. ASAP Ferg and them were customizing the classic retro Soda Clubs like two years ago. And boom, overnight, gone. :unimpressed:
 

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Them joints was expensive. And the trends dont last long. Same thing with the Avirex Jackets from the 90s. Another big leather company marketed to Blacks. They had a white owner and they stopped selling urban leathers one day overnight it seemed. I believe they're still in business but sell replica ww2 bomber jackets.
I use to look at the avirex jackets in the east bay magazine as a jitt and they we're always $600...I wanted one so bad but couldn't afford one

So I got some avirex shoes instead
 
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bounce through LA, blue and red pelle - ma$e. :ohlawd:

avirex is still my shyt, avirex was the must. the best jackets i ever seen better than stoneisland to me.

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Had two Avi's in high school. Brown 75 Avirex varsity wool body with the leather sleeves with the brown beeswax wallabees to match :takedat:and the navy blue Avirex Gold Kickoff leather. Avirex retro'd that jacket Nas had on in Belly matter fact. Price tag is kinda heavy though, but it evens out to the $600 price tag in 98'.:yeshrug:

Avirex Aviator Jacket | Avirex
 
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I use to look at the avirex jackets in the east bay magazine as a jitt and they we're always $600...I wanted one so bad but couldn't afford one

So I got some avirex shoes instead


I went the eBay route back in the early 2000's and copped the lightly worn all leather Gold Kickoff joint for $250 in like 2002. Bought my wool and leather Avi for sale from this I-talian spot that only sold Iceberg History, Avirex and Coogi in winter 2001 for like $300.

But on the subject of the thread, people who haven't been to NYC or any urban spot in the Midwest in the winter time really don't know how big Pelle Pelle leathers were for damn near 30 years. :gucci:It's shocking to not see new Pelles online. :picard:
 

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Had two Avi's in high school. Brown 75 Avirex varsity wool body with the leather sleeves with the brown beeswax wallabees to match :takedat:and the navy blue Avirex Gold Kickoff leather. Avirex retro'd that jacket Nas had on in Belly matter fact. Price tag is kinda heavy though, but it evens out to the $600 price tag in 98'.:yeshrug:

Avirex Aviator Jacket | Avirex

you're not lying bro, to have an avirex back in 99 to me was a dream.

i manged to afford a winter jacket with the furs (not leather) back in 2001, avirex are dope.
 

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not trying to spam your joint but it was this video and the hiphop rnb joints that had avirex's and pitts the must in the Uk.

 
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