Attitude, empowerment and “slapping life in the face”, No Bad Days is a streetwear concept with unique designs created by NBD, a Venezuelan artist based in Barcelona. His pieces combine airbrush, ink, tie-dye and bleach, achieving a raw and distinctive aesthetic that captures attention and doesn't let it go.
The following is a brief interview with this emerging artist and creator, who debuts at Showtime with his streetwear collection. In it, he displays his powerful imagery, full of honest and sentimental messages, and motifs that oscillate between graffiti, tattoos and popular characters. A proposal that, undoubtedly, leaves no one indifferent.
1. How would you describe your style and the clothes you make?
I would define my style as a street style, a lot of influence from the urban, the music, the feelings.
2. How did you start fusing graffiti, airbrushing, hip hop and the huge range of human emotions in your designs?
I think it all comes from the need that was born when I wanted to represent in a figurative way the phrases I heard in the songs, the things I saw every day, my own experiences that we often share with other people without knowing it because we don't externalize, I wanted to find a way to enclose all this in an image, and it is often difficult if you don't want to get involved in something very complex, I think that's where the idea of merging all these elements in unique pieces, loaded with loaded with graphics, symbolism, non-figurative elements, emotions, lyrics, among others.
3. How does music influence your work and the evolution of your art? Any artist in particular?
In any field in which I am operating, music has always played a crucial role in my development as an artist, many times the way I feel can be found between the lines of a song, being easier for me to execute the idea I have in mind, it's how I materialize the emotions in sentences, and then illustrate them and try to be as accurate as possible. Lately I've been listening to Juice WRLD a lot, I wouldn't say he's my “all time favorite” but I like that the artist shows himself as he is (or was), someone who could have whatever he wants and still lives with depression, addictions, highs and lows, like any of us, while still having a “scumbag” attitude, he doesn't live under a false veil that we are taught; “money buys happiness”.
4. What is the emotion or message you are most interested in expressing in your t-shirts and why? Where did the idea of No Bad Days come from?
I think the emotion that I try to convey the most is that of “empowerment”. To wear my clothes you have to be someone with attitude and desire to stand up in the morning and give life a slap in the face. I'm not just talking about knowing how to style it, you really have to be someone who cares very little about what people think of you. And that's where the idea was born, there was a moment in my life when only misfortunes were happening, everything was fights, insecurities, relationship arguments, drugs, everything bad in general, I was very negative about everything and I decided to face the situation in another way, try to be more positive in the face of adversity.The first thing was to stop saying that I had a bad day when I got home, “no bad days, it 's just a day”: We ourselves are the ones who give the perception of good or bad to things.
5. What is your position regarding the fashion industry, fast fashion, mainstream culture, upcycling, where do we position your work?
I would dare to say that I would be between Upcycling and 1/1 designs, even though I’m familiar with and I’m able to use other printing methods for larger productions, at the moment I'm not interested in making quantity, rather quality.
Find No Bad Days exclusively on Showtime, and on his instagram @nobaddaes.
Photos by @__casoperdido