Inside the creation of Jake Paul's 'Stardust Warriors' trunks

LOS ANGELES — Jake Paul approached the ring for his fight against Tommy Fury on Sunday night in an all-black outfit, lit up with flickering lights and black rhinestones on the waistband. The design should look familiar to car enthusiasts, as the idea for Paul's latest trunks came from the interior design of a luxury vehicle.

The kit was designed by Ché Young, who worked with the team at Neon Cowboys, a company that makes light-up apparel, on the build. The concept that he and Paul collaborated on, Young said, was inspired by a Rolls-Royce, which has stars on the ceiling. Young said Paul referred to the concept as «Stardust Warriors.»

«That was his inspiration, like we're stardust warriors,» Young, the CEO and founder of CHÉ BY CHÉ, said. «The Rolls-Royce speaks luxury, it speaks essence, it speaks to his lifestyle of wealth and making and grinding it out and actually embracing where he's at now. And I feel like the shorts have that statement to who he is.»

Young first saw a fiber-optic fabric he liked, but sourcing it proved difficult. Instead, he and Asia Hall, the CEO of Neon Cowboys, found a fabric that they laser cut to look like the galaxy. Hall and Young used an actual photo of the galaxy to make it look as realistic as possible and sewed in the lights. The light pattern was programmed on an app. According to Hall, she used programmable LEDs, in part because of the power consumption and how bright they can get.

«The idea from the beginning was we had to make something that's going to be talked about,» Young said. «Something that's going to push the narrative. Like put a dent in the universe, I like to call it.»

This is the sixth pair of trunks Young has designed for Paul. Against Tyron Woodley in August 2021, Paul