To Die For
Out of Costa Mesa, California the name of this clothing label gives great expectations…
To Die For Clothing also fills its own shoes. At least in part. Operating in the realm between tattoo aesthetics, airbrushed car hood looks, 80’s iron on patches and b/w cartoon sketches the visuals are really on the edge of what is accepted within good society. It is however on the egde of things innovatism starts and new stuff emerges, so we salute them. I really love most of these smashing designs, although i find some of them to be a little too extreme in their expression. The ink and daggers tee is just breathtaking, and the Beautiful/Decay piece is almost equally nice.
Tees are $15.99 to $24.99. A bunch of choices for lads and a couple for the ladies.
Lucha Workshop
I’ve allways liked shirts with that extra hand made feel. This is why I draw yor attention to Teees sponsor Lucha Workshop. They have the most wonderful little collection of hand printed designs on American Apparel shirts, made to order. The designs are really sketchbook like in apperance, and have a strange feel of some movie I might have seen. The tee collection gives me associations to silver screen names like Fritz Lang, Jim Jarmusch and Tim Burton. Just look at the noir-like “detective” design, or the “thirty” shirt which I just love.
As I said… Tees are of AA stock, they retail at about $18–$20, and USPS shipping of your choice (int’l $10). Lucha also pushes out some killer bags and purses, so don’t miss out.
Hands on: Oddica
With their online store opening today, what could be better than a hands on review? We just got some stuff from Oddica in the mail.
First off, I just have to say that these guys have set up a totally quality deal here. The tee was bundled in this really nice custom sealed plastic ziplock envelope, which was almost too nice to pop open. Bundled with the awsome Vader /Storm Trooper ping pong design was a bunch of postcards, a nice artist card and a square badge of the design.
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Go Ape
At one point Arizona was the largest producer of cotton in the USA. This state still houses some cotton vendors. Here is what might be one of the smallest, but still amongst the nicest.
Go Ape Shirts don’t really seem to be quite settled in yet, still they produce some mean t-shirt designs. Their creative team include Julian Glander, Owl Movement contributer Graphic Airlines and some guy called Dave Horowitz. Go Ape Shirts owner Josh has even done one design himself. The designs are in the realm of sparkling vector meets good old pencil, and they are printed on American Apparel stock at the reputable Mamooth Printshop.
Shirts ship out at $18 +4.50 s/h for the USA, and another $4 added for international orders.
Beautiful / Decay
I’ve been it touch with the people of the awsome underground culture magazine Beautiful/Decay. They have pointed me in the direction of the new additions to their shop, and more specificly in the mens clothing section wher they have some smashing new stuff of their own alongside an impressive gallery of tees from other outfits. Beautiful/Decay don’t do their own designing though, they hook up with the hottest names already out there. Their recent additions include designer names Sasha Lee, Saiman Chow, Aya Kato and last but never least Skwak.
These new tees are $29.95 a pop, and prices for the other stuff is around and about the sub $20 to $35 mark. Prepare for stuff form Cryinn’ Tiger, Johnny Cupcakes, I-Manifest and lots of others.
Threadless Summer Sale: All for $10
Here it is again. T-shirt giants Threadless are having one of their trademark ten dollar sales. Eeach tee in stock goes for the price of a $10 bill, so your summer is safe from unvoluntary nudity.
The sale is on until midnight of may 8th (CST) which is just about a week away, and this stuff tends to get ripped off the shelves pretty quickly, so hurry on ladies and gents…
Mass Mayhem
Striking the t-shirt world with lasers and giant metal robot hands, Mass Mayhem is one of the sweetest collaboration projects out there these days. With next to no restrictions designers like Skwak, Coffee and Cigarettes, Ranger Bastards and RDCTV (who are also the host of the project) have designed a wonderful array of big print tees.
Hey Disturbia
Did anyone catch that reference in the title?
I get a lot of emails from people pitching me new stuff. Some are good, some are bad and some I don’t even notice that much. Today I received a notice form the gentleman behind a most wondrous venue called Disturbia Clothing, and this one really struck me. Out of the United Kingdom Disturbia delivers something as rare as contemporary high quality designs within the field of punk rock aesthetics.
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Destroy
I can’t believe this one slipped by me, but here it is nevertheless…
Mona Lisa, Ernest Hemmingway and Hunter S. Thompson are all covered in the current collectoin of t-shirt designs at Destroy Clothing (to bypass the site and go for the designs, go directly to the store). These collageish designs dig deep into the bowels of pop culture through decadence, decay and darkness. The New Word print is definately one of my favs of the site, and there is a lot of other goodness to choose from.
Shrits are $22.99 a piece, and they also make longsleeves, sweaters, hoodies jeans and what not. There are also a lot of sale items at $9.99, and be sure to check out these belt buckles, too. No word on quality or make, though. Shipping seems to be set to $5, but I don’t know if that covers every location. Checkout works through PayPal
Lite Goes Heavy for the Spring
The latest gear from Jakarta based teesigners Lite Streetwear is really worth moving you eyeballs around for. It is some part indie, a large portion eighties, a punch of hip-hop glazed up with thug life. I mean… how can you not love that “metal disco class” piece? That “I DUB U” print rocks my world too.
If you want some of this, HURRY UP. At a maximum of 36 pcs per print, these are not to be taken for granted, and these are really moderately priced too mind you…