Liife&such: CoCo&Breezy

Glitz, Glam & studs on your face is what these young ladies have to offer! Coco & Breezy, young twin sisters from Minnesota who recently moved to NY to pursue their accessories design dreams. They have been creating major buzz for them and their eyewear line that you can all view and purchase from http://www.cocoandbreezy.com/

These girls set out with a specific plan to dominate their career and the eye wear industry! Still babies at only 19 year’s of age these bad girls mean big business. You know there isn’t anything I love more than hardworking youngsters, striving for their dreams. So Of course naturally I met them via Twitter, quickly fell in love with their work ethics, positivity and bubbly ways & had to offer them an interview for me to you guys! Hope you guys like it:

So I know the story; how bout you tell my readers briefly who is Coco & Breezy? We are twins from Minnesota working hard to make a name for ourselves; we are eyewear designers!

How was Minnesota? & what was your drive to engage in the fast pace hustle and bustle of NYC?
"We came out here for 2 weeks on our birthday and Ugo (as in Mozie; stylist) threw us a party here & after that he was telling press we would be back." The rest is history!

Having flown back to Minnesota the girls pitched the idea to their mom and like any loving mother, support was given! Here they are a month later still striving and doing big things! They also went on to explain how things got with Minnesota "friends": "Peoples true colors really came out as we told them we were going for New York. A lot of people doubted us and weren't encouraging. And like we had 2 parties a launch and a farewell and nobody that we expected of the hundreds who were invited and said they would go, came to our farewell due to Labor Day and that was just wrong, but here we are in NY [smiles]"

So the buzz around you girls is growing! Let's talk Fashion! How did www.CoCoandBreezy.com come about? "Well this was so experimental like we never expected it to blow up like this! We started this out back in April and it just went up from there. Once we came out here and saw like people are lovin’ this, it was a DONE DEAL!"

Ugo Mozie being one of the recipients of your eyewear designs; who else can we catch rocking these? How did you reach out to these stars?
"Ashanti - she was like the first major press we had and although she got mixed reviews everyone was asking like so whose shades are those? Umm Micah (Jesse; from www.micahjesse.com), we just met with Amber Rose and gave her a pair and she is such a sweetheart! You may think she's like a bitch but no she's so nice! Umm we also will be sending some to Mya as well as Cassie”
So big SHOUTOUT to Amber Rose doing her thing and staying ever so sweet :).

When I asked about the distribution of these amazing pieces to the artist - How do you reach out to these stars and get your pieces on their faces? "We have been blessed with such amazing friends that like we all help each other out. So its like all been an on going help with our friends wearing them and getting them out there." Then Breezy pointed out "these I'm wearing are actually Ugo's. I'm like Ugo I have an interview and he's like as long as you return them" yeah; they cool like that!

So Eyewear: Accomplished. Any other forms of apparel or accessories to be seen by you girls?
"Well we are working on a second line which is going to be so hot but TOPSECRET! But we are focusing on staying with accessories for a while. We plan on playing with earrings and rings"

What about clothes? "Not yet. Everyone has a line out. Maybe after 5/6 CoCo and Breezy accessories lines then maybe; but let's get established and out there first!" You hear that kids there shall be lots of shades coming our way!

So designers and models; where else would you girls start leaving your mark? "[Loll] we had so many other aspirations growing up but like we always knew we wanted to make it big. We actually had our creative artistic start as backup dancers out in Minnesota which we did like small local show's for local artist. And then we got approached about doing a 10 piece line for a fashion show in like 2 1/2 weeks - it was crazy! [Coco] breezy didn't even want to do it, and then we actually threw in our shades with the pieces and it came together and everyone noted the sunglasses. We are so creative it’s crazy"

And on cue they go "Ooh and we want a reality TV show" they pitched their idea to me and I was SOLD! "We are 19 moved from Minnesota to NY alone, no job no place never been separated & we are on a long journey to success - we'd make good TV on our way to stardom" which I then mentioned their twitter ramble when Breezy went to the post office: "[lmfao breezy:] I miss you girl! [Coco:] I missed you too!” Sounds like; The City meets Keeping up with the Kardashians? : The Adventures of CoCo&Breezy: ep.1 ‘Breezy gets the mail’ lol

So I don't know bout you girls but social networks such as Twitter, have been essential in excelling my career. What's you girls outlook on the worldwideweb (www)? "We love twitter! It’s such good network. Everyone’s seriously so easy to contact! It’s crazy though like you trying to be in the industry you need to work day in day out and like celebrities read! Like for real’s they do keep an eye out for what you do on your time. We do it - we always take the time to look somebody up because you just never know who they are"

And speaking about ways to broadcast media; what do you feel about blogs? "We think they are awesome. Everything is via the web now so for other people to work as a media outlet and bring news of any kind to other through the web is great!" Speaking of news: "we're afraid of the news actually. It scares us! We have yet to watch it since moving here" are they not just so adorable?!

So I explained to the girls that the second portion of the interview consists of questions sent in by random users of twitter for them to answer and they totally loved it and were so stoked! So for the first time in hopefully many here is Liife&Such to Coco & Breezy via Twitter

Q: Who inspires you to design? You came in with the stud design at such a savvy time when the grunge look is IN!
A: Seriously; Ourselves. We didn't have friends growing up we only had each other so we always just drew from each other for creativity.

Q: Who would you like to see wearing one of your designs?
A: Michael Jackson; but he's not here (RIP) I think he was too cool for our stuff anyways! Hmm Madonna too; that’d be cool.

Q: Is there any fun way to tell you girls apart?
A: Breezy has a birthmark on her neck, and she's more outspoken and out there with it. I'm (coco) more subtle. But other than that we are identical!

I know the answer to this but your fans want t know;
Q: Why the names Coco & Breezy?
A: Parents started calling us that since we were so young. We used to be embarrassed but it stuck with us and we needed a stage name in our dancing era so Coco&Breezy just suited us.

Q: How do you like New York so far?
A: Love it! - Any better than Minnesota? Way better - not that Minnesota isn't good, but for the sake of our careers NEW YORK was def the best move we made. We’re actually going to be visiting LA sometime this month for Ugo's bday party and business.

& this question was sent in by JadoreLeGaGa (lol) we'll be hanging out a lot more round NY?! And as if they were one person and one mind they go; YES!

After the interview we stayed in Starbucks a lil’ while longer before deciding: LET’S GO HAVE MOFONGO! I took the girls out to House of Mofongo in Dyckman and they LOVED IT! We chopped it up, bonded & I received my CoCo & Breezy glasses! I hope you guys enjoyed it and I hope ya’ll wait no longer to get you guys a pair of these girls smokin’ shades!

To view the shades and purchase you can Visit: http://www.cocoandbreezy.com/
You can also learn more about them on Myspace.com/CoCo&Breezy & Follow them at Twitter.com/CoCoandBreezy