Before there was a stage, there was a stitch. Before there was a venue, there was a vision. And behind both — always — there was Andi.

Andi Rosenstein grew up on Chicago's north side in the 1960s, the daughter of a bandleader who played the legendary rooms of Rush Street. She absorbed rhythm and atmosphere the way most kids absorb cartoons — through late nights, neon light, and the particular magic of a room that's truly alive. It shaped everything she would ever make.

In 1986, she walked into a surfwear rep's office in Chicago's Apparel Center with a résumé in hand. That rep was Steve Rosenstein. He never quite recovered. Two years later, in 1988, they launched Fitigues Clothing Company — and for the next two decades, Andi designed every single piece. Not a capsule collection. Not a collaboration. Every. Single. Garment. Her instinct for comfort, style, and clothing that feels lived-in and loved — pieces that get better over time — built Fitigues into something a Fortune 500 retailer couldn't resist. They acquired the brand in 2006.

But you can't buy what makes Fitigues Fitigues. That lives in Andi.
In 2007, Steve and Andi found a different kind of blank canvas: a crumbling 1920s warehouse in downtown Phoenix's emerging Warehouse District — once a produce hub by day, once a notorious neighborhood of speakeasies and vice by night. They called it The Duce, and in 2010 they opened its doors: 15,000 square feet of live music, organic cocktails, handmade food, and the kind of atmosphere you can only build when you've spent a lifetime paying attention to how things feel.
The same eye that designed your favorite Fitigues cargo is responsible for every corner of The Duce. The same hands that sourced fabric found The Black Orchid's original bar — the very bar that once served Harry Belafonte and Nat King Cole — and brought it to Phoenix, where it now anchors the Black Orchid Room.

Two brands. One obsession: creating things worth holding onto.

Fitigues. Get comfortable — we've been at this a while.