I remember seeing this tee on TV a couple of days ago (possibly on a Real World episode, note: that show is hilariously terrible) and I quite like it. Personally, I’m not exactly a Local Celebrity, although having said that, only 11 people live in my little hamlet so I guess it would be a bit of a struggle.
On Local Celebrity (the tee company, not this tee in particular), they’ve got a decent range of tees that have a 70s and 80s look to them, kind of in the PalmerCash mould. LC have got a certain class to their designs (I especially enjoy their use of typography) that I like, and whilst most of these vintage-look stores seem to all sell variations on the same ideas, LC actually seem to be selling entirely original designs, at least designs that are new to me.
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I think I may have already mentioned that the guys from BDC released some new designs in a cotton filter a while back, but I really wanted to feautre one of their designs too, because I really like the direction they’ve taken recently. This hoodie continues their Artist Connection Series, I like how they get guest artists in to do designs, yet those designs stick fairly rigidly to the aesthetic and spirit of the rest of Bean Dip’s range.
To be honest, I’d never heard the quote on the hoodie before (“sleep is the cousin of death”), but I’ve taught myself to always google these things before writing a post so that I don’t end up looking like a jackass, and it paid off for me this time. It turns out that its an African proverb, which is probably how it ended up being in a song by Nas (a rapper I’ve barely heard of), and whaddya know, the song is called… “New York State of Mind.” So now we all understand the reference!
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