An Insight Into Designer Curtis Thomas’s ‘House of Hillary’

By: C. Harrison/August 22, 2016/7:04PM

Upon first hearing about  ‘House of Hillary,’ a website T-Shirt company and what its  Owner & Designer, Curtis Thomas had done, my immediate thoughts were,  was he using  Hillary’s campaign to make money.  My fair came to a halt when I interviewed him on the very topic.

According to the enthused Designer, “Yes, one can say we are capitalizing from Mrs. Clinton running for office. It makes sense right now because of the everyday captions on the T-Shirts, but we plan  to go beyond.  We are in essence using the T-Shirts to drive voters and more women to the polls and put people in leadership positions.  We definitely have a game plan for after the campaign and when Mrs. Clinton becomes President.  And  yes, my company is a for profit; the shirts are walking Bill Boards, for candidates,” ascerted the unshakable sounding Thomas.

In addition, Thomas stated,  “We also have T-Shirts depicting First Lady, Michelle Obama and President Obama honoring their contributions;  as well as T- Shirts for the Justices.  I believe the shirts will go very far, we have over 30 thousands people following us. We have people in Demark and Australia ordering T-Shirts and soon, we will have another T-Shirt rolling out for a democrat in California, Kamela Harris,” articulated Thomas .   He further explained that candidate names, are fair game to use and that they are going after other political avenues such as fundraising, block parties, and speakers.

The very frank Designer made pellucid that, ‘House of Hillary,’ is not part of Mrs. Clinton’s, campaign  website.  He said,  “Whatever they have on their website is theirs.  We have a more specific target on the younger generation, 18-25, and we also have things on our site for older people.  Our T-Shirts span generations, there are also T-Shirts for men. We hope to do fundraising for candidates and be a catalyst for young people.”  Thomas further injected that ‘House of Hillary’s’ goal, is to recreate the same synergetic excitement in 2016 for Mrs. Clinton, as the nation shared in 2008 for President Barack Obama.

Moreover,  the expressive Designer said that what Mrs. Clinton will get from them for using her title and name, is hopefully votes, further inspiration, and motivation.  He concedes that it’s important for a democratic candidate, running for Presidency to win and that Hillary, will need engaged citizens as well. Everyone should do their part in a campaign. Our role is to reach out to those who don’t necessarily know who or how to vote or get in the game. I am 35-years old and there is a lot to be done.  We hope to be that engagement on the ground,” reiterated the creationist.

In describing his T-Shirts apparels, Thomas said the designs were his and all of them were made here in the United States. The Designer also creates logos. The very culpable Thomas, is using his T-Shirts, to highlight politicians, public figures, advocacy and women because they are an underrepresented group.

In the quest of not running a political muck, I asked Thomas point blank,  if he sees his company running into a political risk; in which he answered no. He referred to the fact that if, he does, then maybe it’s a  good thing.  “We want to use our T-Shirts, to impact candidates races,” stated Thomas.

The genteel Designer said that he had no idea if he would run for office. He moreover noted that it takes a type of personality to run and that doing the T-shirts, was his way of contributing for now.

‘House of Hillary’ was conceived in 2015, Summer. it was the vision of its CEO Curtis Thomas, a Morehouse College International Studies graduate from Greensboro, NC. Thomas was a Washington insider who have worked for Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr, Rep. Yvette Clarke and Rep. Bobby Rush.

Celebs droning his T-shirts are: Rocsi Diaz, Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Phaedra Parks and Gizelle Bryant from Real Housewives of Potomac, the Jamie Foxx Show star Garcelle Beauvais and Living Single & The Cosby Show’s Erika Alexander, to name a few.  Slogans on the T-shirts includes: “I Met the President” “High Heels” “High Office” and “Polls Before Bros” etc.