Live from LA: Saturday(Night)Special

Diego & Joaquin Bracamonte built the bridge bonding street and sartorialism in their latest family affair. Saturday (Night) Special— S(N)S— which the pair describes as anti-aesthetic, “grew out of a need to make something that felt like us. Looking back, fashion became the vehicle because it’s tactile, visible, and cultural— it’s how we expressed identity.” The brothers, raised in Phoenix and currently residing in Los Angeles, compound culture with couture as they communicate community through clothing. Mining inspiration from the mundane magic that inhabits the Southwest, S(N)S has cornered an extraordinary enclave of the globe still unappreciated for its headline-worthy wardrobes.

For the release the siblings threw a rager at NSA Studio whilst enlisting RESERVED to guide the kids to a ruckus dance party with music by TECHGRL, John Bryars and BJ Panda Bear. The crowd of barely clad baddies took in the last bit of the extended summer whilst knocking back Olga Vodka Martinis and keeping it hydrated with the mix of Marquis yerba mate. Ahead of the October 28th debut release of their “Vagabond” collection, the pair sat down with RESERVED to discuss their muses, the DNA of the brand, and the future of S(N)S.

What is it like to found a brand with your family? What challenges do you face versus unrelated collaborators? What strengths does your relationship grant your creativity?

Founding a brand with family is both grounding and intense. There’s a deep, unspoken understanding that can only come from growing up together—shared references, shared history, and a kind of emotional shorthand that speeds up the creative process. But that closeness also means boundaries can blur.

Disagreements can hit harder because they come from people you care deeply about. Unlike unrelated collaborators, there’s no “clocking out” from family, which can be both a gift and a challenge. Ultimately, though, the trust we have in each other creates a space where risks feel safer, and ideas can be more raw, more honest.

Describe your design process.

Our process is rooted in conversation—some of our best ideas have started on the couch or in the middle of a rush hour drive. We start with mood: a scene, a feeling, an image. From there, it’s a layering process.

We pull from film, music, old family photos, fashion archives, and architecture. There’s no rigid structure. It’s more like building a world than designing a collection.

Explain how the brand came to be— as children, was fashion always the plan?

Fashion wasn’t the obvious plan—it was more about storytelling. As kids, we were always making things: videos, DIY clothes like sewing on patches with dental floss, burning mix CDs with our own cover art in the lime wire days. Creativity, rather, was always going to be and has always been in our path. 

What does anti-aesthetic mean to you?

To us, anti-aesthetic doesn’t mean “ugly” or “random”—it means rejecting the idea that things have to look polished, commercial, or palatable to have value. It’s about embracing imperfection, contradiction, and grit. We lean into raw textures, clashing references, and designs that feel lived-in or emotionally charged.

Anti-aesthetic is a rebellion against over-curation—it’s more honest, more chaotic, more human.

The brand is heavily influenced by Los Angeles culture and iconography— where do you pull inspiration, and where did this hometown fascination begin?

We were born and raised in Phoenix and live in Los Angeles now—both places are in our blood. Phoenix gave us a love for the quiet, the heat, the textures of the desert, and the weird beauty of everyday surroundings—strip malls, lowrider car shows, swap meets, backyard parties. LA added more layers: the pace, the people, the history, the endless collision of culture. What inspires us most are the overlooked details—sun-faded signs, church flyers, old uniforms, corner store fonts. The fascination started young, just by paying attention to our environments and realizing they had their own language. We’re obsessed with capturing that.

How do you see the brand expanding?

We want to expand into anything that excites us, home goods, installations, films. We’re interested in physical spaces and feel like they are becoming increasingly important. Collaborations with local artists and household brands, projects that blur the line between product and art. We’re not chasing mass appeal. We’re focused on depth, storytelling, and keeping the soul intact as we grow.

Written by Delaney Willet