Pete Wentz + Nordstrom = What?!

Pete Wentz.jpg Against everything that we understand, the fashion industry seems to love Pete Wentz.

He’s designed his own line, Clandestine Industries, beat Rachel Bilson to designing a capsule collection for DKNY Jeans, posed for the Gap, and now, the prince of guyliner is partnering with Nordstrom to bring his junior high mall-kid aesthetic to other junior high kids at the mall.

According to WWD, Wentz is launching a junior sportswear line (not unlike Heidi Montag, may we remind,) still under the name Clandestine Industries to launch in April. The clothes, consisting mostly of jeans and tees are meant to be unisex (oh this is going to go over so well with 12 year-olds shopping with their moms,) and will be sold in Nordstrom’s BP sections, where we’ve been secretly buying flats for years.

Nordstrom already has a plan in the works to prime shoppers for the emo overload coming this spring - a Pete Wentz CD-DVD featuring behind-the-scenes footage of the design collaboration and some previously unheard songs by Wentz will be available just before the line debuts.

We’re betting on an Ashlee Simpson guest design collection next. Because really, at this point, why not?

posted by guest

Mar 18, 2008 9:24AM

Blech...

Mar 18, 2008 9:43AM

ick

Mar 18, 2008 9:55AM

to be stated up front, of course pete wentz disgusts me, even before he started doing anything fashion related. but in my opinion, it's not that the fashion industry loves him or sees some untapped talents, it's that he represents that group of shoppers that is the most elusive of all: teen-age boys. we all know teenage girls will go shopping, whether for a celeb or just because they are bored and want something new, but teenage boys don't go shopping for fun like we gays and girls do. i bet they're hoping to cash in on that untapped crowd through wentz. --B

Mar 18, 2008 10:14AM

Why are you always putting commas inside the close-parentheses? I am sorry to be a punctuation Nazi but I can't take it anymore. You do it too often and consistently for them to be typos.

on the contrary to guest 9:55 am - i think that the teenage boy market is untapped - just look at all the popped collared abercrombie and lacoste minions roaming around from coast to coast. although i do think that they are the least adventurous in what they wear; definately that market likes uniformity overall. i'm starting to see more and more chace crawford lookalikes every day.

Mar 18, 2008 10:42AM

I'm not sure I agree that Wentz is the proper vehicle with which to capture the teenage boy audience. I would say that his fan base is largely middle-school to young-high school girls with a serious obsession with faux emo music (such as Fall Out Boy) and a tendency to wear converse... or maybe I'm just describing my 15-year-old sister.

Mar 18, 2008 11:02AM

to guest 10:14 am - I wish I saw Chace Crawford lookalikes every day :)

...Pete Wentz, not so much.

posted by silhouette

Mar 18, 2008 11:26AM

i hate the fact that all of these people (pete wentz, heidi montag.. etc) are coming out with their own lines that the brainwashed mtv generation will buy... thank god that i will never be caught dead in something "designed" by them..

posted by mmr421

Mar 18, 2008 12:41PM

shoot. me. again.

posted by hannah

Mar 18, 2008 4:59PM

I'll say this straight-out: I like Fall Out Boy. But this is too much. Everything he designs is ugly. I don't know anyone who would actually wear it, except maybe the faux-emo mall rat girls who I always see at this one mall. But seriously. Ick.

posted by glttergrl3890

Mar 18, 2008 5:31PM

This may just be the biggest rant ever, I apologize.

FYI, part of the line has been up on the Nordstrom's website for the past few weeks - http://shop.nordstrom.com/C/6014808/0~2376780~6009391~6014807~6014808 - personally, I wouldn't buy a single item there. Not even for just hanging around in. I don't want to see Hemmy on another shirt or item of clothing - he's a dog for god sakes, I prefer to see him being walked by employees of Crush Management at shows then anything else. And ALSO, that dog was bought with his ex-gf... idk that sorta bugs me for whatever reason.

Unfortunately FOB fans are die hards - and it has ALWAYS been that way, since 2003/4 - with the bands success on TRL in 05 things just got 10x worse with teenie boppers. When Clan first launched it was just illustrations from Wentz's book The Boy With the Thorn In His Side (Smith's reference anyone?) - it was god awful hideous and totally for the Hot Topic set (the illustrations were technically gorgeous - but their content not so much) as well as a DVD. I do not recommend seeing said DVD, and if Nordstrom's execs saw it (or Wentz's nude photos) I'm not so sure they would endorse Wentz's clothing line, then again an investment like this may help to revive their BP Department (which in my opinion has been lacking greatly recently, stock seems to be the same every month and most of the items can be bought in Delia's ie: Scrapbook & Junkfood, nothing unique! At least this is somewhat, but barely different, and appeals to that same tween set.)

Honestly though, us kids who have been fans since the start just laugh at Wentz and his absolute ridiculousness. And we laugh at the fangirls even though in all honestly we're just as bad as them. It's just such a bad scene now. I can't even put it into words anymore.

"and some previously unheard songs by Wentz will be available just before the line debuts" - Songs? Really? Because, last I knew, Wentz only knows how to write lyrics - he can't play the bass for shit or write actual music (go listen to FOB's first album Evening Out With Your Girlfriend - Patrick Stumph wrote the lyrics & Wentz wrote the music, though somewhat catchy it's not nearly as good Take This To Your Grave at which point the two switched roles.)

posted by fay

Mar 18, 2008 6:27PM

Oh dear god, can someone please make these 'celebrity' clothing lines stop.