Monsieur T: Limited Edition
Quentin at Monsieur T tells me that they have released a new t-shirt designed by Oyoaha. The stock is numbered to 66 pcs. you have to be quick if you want your sweatty hands touching this sheet of premium cotton.
The design as you can see is of a Sony PS2 controller lodged in the chest pocket of the shirt. It doesn’t say if the pocket is real, so if anyone knows plase post a comment below.
Upcoming: Divine Clothing
I guess this is the largest image so far at TEEES. The thing is that on February 1st of this year, Divine Clothing are releasing their new collection.
Divine are rolling out 11 new shirts, 1 reprint from the first season, and 2 limited edition shirts. In addition to this there will be one of a kind hoodies and printed handbags with old and new Divine Cloting designs.
The material looks really great. Kissing, birds, hand granades, punkrock hairdos and hot air balloons. They have also prited up some awsome copywrong Bender stickers (and even some of my favorite Futurama character, Dr. Zoidberg). Devine clothing ships all orders with free stickers and other goodies they might have available. I am very excited about this release.
Hecklewood Goes Street Level
If you are in Portland Oregon you’re in for a real treat. Due to popular demand, the guys at Hecklewood Apparel have found it fit to open their own retail space and design studio at this very location. Introducing the Hecklewood Boutique and Design Studio…
The Hecklewood Boutique is so much than a place of business. There is an ongoing exhibition there that opened a couple of weeks ago at the same time as the store. The curren
t exhibit features work by Seattle artist Nick Kamuda. And Hecklewood will feature a new artist every month.
An other great feature is their in-store refrigerator; stuffed to the rim with chilled Pabst, you will never have to go t-shopping on a dry throat again. This really made it for me. Here in Norway you would never get away with something like this, but it is this kind of thing that makes shopping worth doing. This and the wonderful apparel of course.
Let’s not forget the tees in all this. Hecklewood prints a great range of shirts with excellent designs. They are currently in the midst of designing their S/S 2006 line which will include some spanking new cut/sew garments as well as some top-secret new product. The new line is said to release in early March.
The store will also retail work by other selected designers like Hello Minor, Invicid, Shipley and Yoshimi, so if you are in the neighborhood, check out the store, have a beer and take in the sights.
If you were wondering where it is at, here is the street address: 2431 NW Thurman Street, Portland, OR 97210.
All images are courtesy of Hecklewood Apparel.
Killer Tee
I have always liked lo-fi styled shirts, and Killer Tee delivers just these. They also slap on slogans that are so cheesy they just might work on your chest. They also have a collection of vintage stuff that is really nice. The ladies are urged to take a look at the striped unicorn shirts. I really love these, and I’m kinda sad they dont have these for guys.
Random Tees from Random Nicole
If you want t-shirts like no one elses you should check out Random Nicole. Here you’ll find tees with fun fabric details and prints, all in playful colors and patterns. They are around $60 each so they’re not cheap, but at least you know you won’t be seeing someone else with the same tee.
Naked Conversations Interviews Patrice Cassard
Mr. Cassard maintains one of my favorite t-shirt businesses on the internet. The venue is La Fraise (translates into “the strawberry”), a submission based t-shirt source in France. Here is a quote from the interview:
Writing daily, the blog steadily built a community of like-minded French-speaking t-shirt aficionados. Over time, his readers started sending him their own designs for t-shirts, which he posted on La Fraise and other readers would give him feedback—lots of feedback. While an average blog gets him about 30 comments, one recent posting netted him 345 comments. In short, he has a passionate active audience which has a lot to say about t-shirts.
If you haven’t heard of La Fraise before, you ought to have a look at their stuff. Here is the interview, and here is a previous post about La Fraise here at TEEES.
Straight Off The Xerox: Supa
I love these halftoned tees i find around and about these days. The Barcelona based Supa Softwear is no exception.
Their array of imagery includes pola cams, guns, music tapes, deer and not least halftone, pencil line though xerox style and hard graphic toned images ofrom the days of punk rock and new wave. Including what lokes to be the likes of such as Chrissy Hynde and Lou Reed.
The price tag says €18 male or female, and the site is in english as well as spanish.
Ride the Rockett
For beer drinkin’ fist fightin’ and general misbehavin’ bastards Rockett is a great source of clothing. Their t-shirt designs are rockin’ yet contemporary, which I really love. Although they do not ship directly to Europe, there are other sources available. Did I mention that they also do hoodies, jackets, panties, accessoires and what not, for both guys and gals?
A date with Threadless
Threadless has just started a competition where the price is “a date with Threadless”. That is: a trip to Chicago and $250 in spending cash. Runners up win Threadless gift certificates. The only catch is that you must reside in the US to enter, so I’m out. Now, what you have to do to win is write a loveletter to write a loveleletter telling them why they should pick you.
On an other note, they have also printed up new stock. Four new ones and a couple of reprints.
Graniph, Japanese Excelence
This site is no less than overwhelming. Out of Tokyo, Japan, Graniph must have the largest collection of outsanding t-shirt designs I have ever seen. The shirts are beautifully covered with graphics and text, and the mere size of the place…
I haven’t really counted the stock, but I estimate they have within the neighborhood of 150 tees on their site, and I cannot say I saw anyting that was less than acceptable. The only problem for me must be the language, as I don’t speek Japanese. I have a friend who sorta does, though, so I might be contacting him for help ordering some of these, if they do ship internationally that is.
Shirts seem to be ¥2100 which calculates to about $18, and many of the tees have print on both sides, too.