Fans Of Fictional Brands
Lucky Seven makes custom caps that bear the logos of fictional companies featured in cult films and television shows.
Founder Jay Jay Burridge is a self-proclaimed seventies kid, who spent much of his childhood wearing a Star Wars cap.
Burridge, who is an artist by trade, founded the London-based company as a hobby, and turned it into a successful online business.
Lucky Seven’s caps are all made to order. On the company’s website, customers are invited to design their own caps by choosing either a mesh or army style cap, a colour combination from an extensive palate, style of captain’s laurels, and the preferred fictional company’s crest.
Want to declare your loyalty to the promise and opportunity of Blade Runner’s Off World Colonies? Done. Prefer people to think you shot J.R. because of your Ewing Oil cap? No problem. Every order is shipped in a Lucky Seven hat box, and caps are priced at GBP 30.
The company has cleverly focused on a very narrow niche—not just customized caps, or accessories featured in movies, but caps with logos of fictional yet memorable entities. Immediately recognizable only to likeminded fans, a Lucky Seven cap is both a conversation starter and an insider’s status symbol. Which is the kind of added value that can help a small business grow.
Photo by Lucky Seven.
Jaclyn on February 17th, 2009 11:49 am
This sounds like a very interesting company to have started up. I wonder if he will stick to shows such as star wars type of thing’s, or if he will branch out to all kinds like family guy, home improvement and such.
cassy on February 17th, 2009 8:44 pm
Its really interesting idea, that people can create their own style based in the cult films or in the television show and they can wear it as what logos they want from the featured movies. And it serves as their memorable entities from that movies also if they are going to order in the related company’s website.
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