Kickstarter

Picked out of thousands and Given the Recognizing Success Award by the County Comptroller for Milk N Cookies NY  http://ulstercountycomptroller.blogspot.com/2012/06/10-schools10-students10-stories.html

Written up in the Goodlife Magazine http://goodlifeyouthjournal.com/GL_News.html

Written up on multiple blogs

http://tblakeraps.com/2012/10/01/milk-n-cookies-new-york-kickstarter-project/

Story Behind the Brand?

I'm Harrison Bruhn, 18-years-old, and the founder of Milk N Cookies, New York, a streetwear company I started when I was sixteen.

Even as a little kid, I was independent and creative. I would sit in my room for hours building colossal cities out of Legos. At the start of high school—when Legos no longer held my interest--I came up with an idea to start a rap group with a couple friends. We came up with the name, “The Gentlemen’s Society.” My role was meeting facilitator and my house became the place where everyone came over for recording sessions, video games, and my Jewish mother's home-cooked meals. Although we had crazy amounts of fun, God were we bad. But, being kids, we thought we were so good that we needed shirts made to flaunt around. I designed them with a simple foil text. But the group broke up before we could even hand out the shirts.

After making a fool of myself in the Hip Hop world, I did discover that I liked making t-shirts. I'd been interested in streetwear since middle school when I found this online company, Karmaloop, the “mothership” for streatwear brands. I remember minimizing the shirt I wanted on my screen so that it was impossible for my nice, generous Jewish mother to see it clearly. “Of course, Bubula!” she said. She had no idea she'd just paid for a piece of clothing with an obscenely large, naked girl on the front. Even when she did figure it out, she was pretty chill. But I did get in trouble with all the the lunch monitors, teachers and the school resource officers—guys who did nothing but tackle kids and double dip (that's a whole other story). Even so, I was hooked on in-your-face tees. I especially liked how people reacted to them.

I guess this is why I was always the class clown. I liked getting people to react. But being the class clown—and having other interests—well, it wasn't exactly a formula for academic success. My grades started slipping and then I got myself into some stupid s#!@!, and before I knew it, at the end of the 10th grade, I had moved to a separate school, a private school.

That summer, my mom and step-dad gave me a choice. Sort of. They offered to send me to the Woodstock Day School, a local private school. I'd heard stories about WDS. It was supposed to be kind of a hippy joke place. And, worst of all, it had only 200 kids! That's right. Kindergarten through 12th grade! In my high school, I was one of 2,000! So I went, after being guilted everyday...

What I ended up getting from spending the last two years at WDS was breathing room—I didn't have to worry about the other 1,999 kids--a high school diploma, and the motivation to get serious. Now I'm ready to take Milk N Cookies to the next level with a little “Kickstart” from you guys!

  

Pre Order of Fall Line 2012 (Rewards)

Pin Pack - Depending on your donation, pick out 5 pins of your choice.

Sticker Pack - Depending on your donation.

Screen Printed Shirt Tags below...

Hang Tags

Where is your money going?

Your money will go towards:

Printed t - shirts
Screen printed tags -  hand printed locally
Woven labels - sewn by a local seamstress
Hang tags
Shipping

Thank You!

Thank you so much for the support!  If you have any questions or comments feel free to send a message to milkncookiesny@gmail.com or my personal email, harrisonbruhn@gmail.com

Sincerely,

Harrison