Have any of you guys seen those tees which have naked celebs on them with a slogan placed to hide all the naughty bits?I know they’re hardly a new concept (the project started in 2006), but I spotted a good roundup and explanation of the project on a blog called “If It’s Hip, It’s Here” and thought that it was pretty interesting. I think the tees are about $35 each, which is probably too much for many, but apparently all proceeds go to the NYU Cancer Institute, so you’re kinda making a $35 donation to a charity and getting a free tee out of it.

The Naked Truth About Marc Jacobs’ Skin Cancer Awareness Campaign: Who Posed Nude, Where Can You Buy The Shirts & Who Benefits [via Notcot]

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Whilst I realise that celebrities selling off their clothes for charity is a noble cause which is hardly new (Elton John does this pretty, regularly I do believe), for some reason the only people I can imagine buying these items is creepy middle-aged guys with a huge, rather age inappropriate, crush on the diminutive Heroes hottie (hey, I can say it, I’m not that much older than her).Still, if it helps save the whales, I’m all for it!

Hayden Panettiere Closet [Photo credit: The Superficial]

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This is another bunch of tees that I personally wouldn’t wear, probably because the word ‘twat’ is far more NSFW in the UK than the US (I think?), but since a portion of each sale goes to Operation Enduring Care (a charity which supports American troops who have been injured) I thought I’d give them a quick link.

TWATSupplies

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Well, apparently, they’re both going to have their own celebrity clothing lines. Yep, because if there’s anyone that I’d like to design my clothes, its a guy that wears an orange sheet!

Fashionista blog reports that street fashion brand Tonic will launch a personally-branded t-shirt line with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, with proceeds benefiting charities of his choosing.

I’m a little bit skeptical about this story to say the least, I first came across it via Boing Boing (where the above quote comes from), who said that Fashionista were reporting it, but the BB link lead to a dead end, and I can’t find a trace of it on the Fashionista site, and no one else seems to have reported it on Google News (obviously there are rather more pressing issues in Tibet for him to be concerned with at the moment which might be affecting my searches). I’m not saying its untrue since it doesn’t seem that crazy for him to have some tees designed (presumably for him, not by him) with a large chunk of the sales going to charities selected by his holiness, but it does seem like the kind of thing that would have more than one source.

[Photo credit: FerneMillen]

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Sales, sales, sales…

Mimoco x HYA* Illustration Contest: The entries are in, check them out in this Flickr set, winners will be announced shortly!

Hugsmugglers by Brandon Dunlap: This guys a great artist, check out him and his clothing line.

7 hottest tee models on the net by Threadspot: I’m not so sure if I approve of the idea, but at least I now know that you don’t have to spend days hunting down robot and anthropomorphic tees to get some Digg-love.

No Star: You can get 30% off all orders over $75 by using the coupon code TURKEY. Did I already mention this? No matter, its a good coupon!

Digital Gravel: Cyber Monday sale, enter the code BLKMNDY for 25% off anything until midnight PST tonight.

80sPurple: 10% off everything (even sale items) with the code holiday07.

Stereo Panda: A truck-load of stuff has gone on sale exclusive for Christmas, totally ‘off the hook’ as usual.

WeAreFalse: Season 4 is about to drop, check out this feature of SlamxHype for the lowdown.

People Like Us: 5 new designs, and you just KNOW that they’re gonna look good before you even click that link!

Glarkware: All non-limited tees are $15 until 11:59ET tomorrow (Tuesday 27th) night.

Huzzah Goods: New designs are up on their site, and every purchase will give a dollar to Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play Charity.

Paper Root Clothing: Overhauled website, new tees, new hoodies, new scarves. All look good.

Owl Movement: Some kind of whimsical sale going down, they really are big on whimsy over at OM. Basically, you’ll get 15% magically reduced from your order at the checkout.

Burnswell: Get 10% off any order over $30 with the code 3PACK.

Monsieur T.: Get 30% off a load of their stuff. Sale ends at midnight (PST) 27/11.

Yackfou: Get 10% off your order with the coupon code bestechungsgeld until December 10th.

Cotton Factory: Spend more than $75 and enter the coupon code CHIP in the checkout for free shipping.

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Maybe I should just accept that I’ve lost my titling mojo for good and stick to the informative style?

Cotton gang are running a pretty interesting concept for their line of tees, I’ll let their blurb explain it far more succinctly than I possibly could.

The aim of this new venture is to continue producing art and getting a chance
to work with some of our favorite artists. The concept is simple; we pick an
artist every season and give them a blank Canvas on three shirts. Then we create
three shirts of our own, which the artist collaborates on. The result is a
totally original line every season.

The second part of this venture is to create income for the artist, so that
they may continue creating art. So large portions of the sale are given directly
to the artist. This is coupled with our sponsorship of a charity a season, in
which we donate two dollars from every sale to that specific charity. This
months charity is Kristi House (KristiHouse.org) which is a place where sexually
abused children in Miami can get therapy.

Collaborations are big right now, I’ve just got done reading Jeremyville’s Sessions book (available in his online shop), and that’s taught me a lot about the value of collaboration in art, and I think this is a pretty interesting way of creating a line of tees. And of course, giving $2 dollars from each sale to charity if a really great move.

Their collection of shirts is a little bit bare at the moment, hopefully it will expand in the coming months, but there are some great designs in there, like the one I’ve pointed out in the above picture.

Cotton Gang

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