Locals Only.

When I say “The Hamptons”, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Is it expensive dinners? Lavish parties? Big Houses? Probably something along those lines. For me, though, The Hamptons has always been “cozy”. I grew up visiting Montauk ever since I was born. My grandparents had lived there for many years and I came to love a completely different side of “The Hamptons”: homemade dinners, fireplace talks, and pancake houses. I always viewed it as a humble place, however, as I grew up and more and more of my peers began to visit, I realized it had the connotation of being the exact opposite. And the only people that really understood that paradox were and always will be, the locals. Last year, right before we were launching Slug, I went into one of my favorite stores there, RRL, and met one of the workers there. A local – a young kid with ill style, using Ralph Lauren garments and styling them in a fresh new way. We spoke briefly, exchanged contacts, and shortly had the idea to ask him to be in a Slug Story. His name was Jeison and he brought along two more locals, his best friends Andrew and Luis, to show us the real Hamptons.