Who makes up the Pennant Race family?
Ryan Wantland: Right now there are two of us, myself and my partner Aaron. We have a countless number of people who’ve helped us along the way but we’re the main two who do the day-to-day grinding. BallerStatus.com: You’re a relatively new brand. What was the hardest thing you had to overcome as a new brand trying to find its place in the fashion industry? Ryan Wantland: The most difficult thing is getting people to take you seriously. Everyone has a clothing brand these days so it has made the consumers and the store owners of the world very critical of new brands, and rightfully so. We came into this with a lot of concepts that we wanted to voice. Being that our stuff is so concept driven, we knew that not everyone was going to appreciate what we were saying and that we’d really need to find our niche. It has taken us a while but we have been very lucky to have some amazing stores take a shot on our brand. We now sit on a shelf next to a lot of brands that we look up to, so that’s be