Advisory Board Crystals Was Born in the Backseat of an UberPOOL

On episode 47 of The HBR Show, we sat down with Remington Guest and Heather Haber, better known as the co-founders and creative directors behind Advisory Board Crystals. The couple met in the backseat of an UberPOOL while Guest was visiting Los Angeles. “We’re both not actually social at all, so she was on her side of the car looking out the window—like, not towards me—and I didn’t even wanna see who else was in the car,” recalls Guest. Regardless, the two bonded over the fact that they had both worked for Scott Sternberg’s cult brand, Band Of Outsiders — Guest was Band’s de facto lookbook model and Heather was an intern. By some coincidence, the two bumped into each other at the ACE Hotel later that same night; Guest slid in Heather’s DMs and the rest is history. On their first date, Guest bought Haber “a crystal for all these cute reasons that I thought she should have this one specific crystal.” Hence, ABC. was born. The brand’s business model is simple enough: everything is extremely limited [the couple estimates that they made just 90 of their "Radiant Cities" hoodie, e.g.]; collections and capsules are created exclusively for individual retailers, including Tribeca’s Patron of the New and our very own HBX platform. The garments themselves however, are a whole different story. For one, Heather and Remington don’t “tie-dye” their shirts, per se, but they do use various proprietary dyeing techniques. Their soft pastels and watercolors are the result of crystal-infused d