Lean back in that lawn chair, turn on some '80s monster ballads and pour yourself a daiquiri, welcome to The Sunday Social Club. Dreamt up by collaborating partners and friends, Jen Lee and Alexis Konczal, the SSC is a quirky collection of retro inspired Grasscloth Wallpaper prints and patterns.
Over the past 15 years, Jen and Alexis have designed and merchandised apparel assortments together for dozens of clothing brands. Both kicked off their careers in corporate retail, Alexis as a merchandiser at the Gap and Jen designing graphics for Abercrombie & Fitch during their heyday in the early 2000s. Their worlds collided in 2011 when they both ended up in Los Angeles living around the corner from one another in West Hollywood working for a Licensed graphics t-shirt brand, Junk Food Clothing. In 2013 Alexis joined Chubbies shorts to spearhead the product development and merchandising team, eventually serving as Creative Director. During those years Jen served as a consultant, designing some of the most iconic prints that helped build Chubbies into the brand it is today. In addition to Chubbies Jen continued to design for a number of additional brands while also licensing her personal artwork to Crate & Barrel, Pottery Barn and HomeGoods.
Sunday Social Club was born out of Alexis and Jen repeatedly getting sidetracked with pipedream conversations of their future home interiors collection. Both spent hours of their 1980s childhoods alongside their interior decorating mothers in designer showrooms across the midwest. Their love for prints, patterns and colors was born in the oversized pages and stacks of wallpaper books and fabric swatches.
There was never a shortage of chintz, florals, pastels with coordinating borders wallpapering the background of their youth. The Sunday Social Club inaugural assortment was heavily inspired by that nostalgic 1980s décor but dusted off and amped up a few notches. Jen and Alexis were excited to create something that was a reflection of their personalities and what they love: wild prints in unexpectedly bright color combos, quirky characters & icons, and over-the-top vacation vibes all-year-round.
Sunday Social Club prints aren’t going to be everyone's cup of tea and Jen and Alexis are fine with that but what they hope it can serve up is some fun laughs, sunshine smiles and feel good energy when you invite them into your homes.