00:00Hey everyone, welcome back. It's Jen and as you know, I'm settling into my new city
00:05and as I'm doing that, I'm also reconnecting with some of the most
00:08inspiring people I know and today I have my awesome friend Minji and she's
00:12gonna show me her favorite spot in LA. So let's go find her.
00:17Hi Jen, how are you? I'm good.
00:19I'm good. Welcome, welcome. What is this?
00:22This is Valley City and this is where I like to say the artists like to hang out.
00:27If you want to come upstairs and check it out. Yeah, let's do it.
00:33Check it out. Oh my gosh, holy crap. It's amazing.
00:43Alright, so give me a tour. What we have, these are where all the desks are.
00:47Lemonade stand, DJ, swings. Yeah, so you've got like some work and then some play.
00:52Yeah, so you can work and play at the same time.
00:54Is this like the garments that they used on?
00:57Yeah, this is some of the stuff that they've already come out with.
00:59Ooh. I think like all of the pieces, it's like they kind of like have their own
01:03like little tweaks to it, you know what I mean?
01:04Oh my god, this is your skirt. It is my skirt.
01:08And then we've got a lemonade stand here. Is it like a functioning one?
01:11Yeah, definitely.
01:13What can I get for you?
01:14Um, let's see. Do you have any Cokes here?
01:16Yes. We have a Coke straight from the bottle.
01:19Ooh.
01:20So do you come here often?
01:22Sometimes. On the weekends I do.
01:25Okay, bye.
01:28One of the things that I like to do when I come here is I like to design stuff.
01:34We can distress this jacket while we chit chat.
01:38Okay, amazing. So this will be like our friendship jacket.
01:40This is our friendship jacket.
01:41All right. So when did you move to LA?
01:43I moved out here about like a year and a half ago from Utah.
01:48I'm just like happy to be out here. Everyone's so different and everyone's really artistic and creative.
01:52And those are people that I like to like surround myself by.
01:55Totally. So like how did you hear about Valley City?
01:58One of my friends named Dani Thorne, she started this brand not too long ago.
02:02I think it was a couple months ago.
02:03And she just approached me and asked me if I wanted to design some stuff.
02:08And I was actually, at first I was like, wait, what?
02:12Why? Me? A designer?
02:13Yeah, and I was just really flattered.
02:14And she just said that she really liked my style and so it was awesome.
02:16It was just like a really good opportunity that I was like, wait, I can make clothes that I would
02:21want to wear.
02:21Yeah, no, like I feel like that's like what's amazing about LA.
02:24Like you can really meet the right people and just like make your teams come true.
02:28Yeah, it's so awesome.
02:28Yeah, and like everyone just like wants to help each other out.
02:31And that's why it's awesome because everyone out here is doing something and like has a lot of drive.
02:41Okay, I think we're done with the jacket, right?
02:43Yeah, I think we're done. Let's show it.
02:45Ta-da!
02:46So add some little rhinestones and some rips.
02:49That was super easy.
02:50It's got like the bubbliness and the gems.
02:52Yeah.
02:52And there's edge because we're angry.
02:55Yeah.
02:56Thank you so much for having me.
02:57Yeah, of course.
02:58Thanks for coming.
02:59I had the best time here.
03:00Yeah, I hope you had fun.
03:01We need to get together and get Korean barbecue and hang out.
03:05Yeah.
03:06And I'm so stoked that you're here.
03:07I know.
03:08So we can like hang out all the time.
03:09You can be my only.
03:10Totally.
03:11I'll be your only forever.
03:12Yeah, but okay.
03:13I will see you later.
03:14Okay, you have your number.
03:14Bye.
03:16Thank you so much for tuning in.
03:18Honestly, I had the best time here and if I didn't meet Minji, I wouldn't have known
03:22a place like this existed.
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03:28more YouTube videos and I'll see you next time.
03:30Bye.
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