I say that this won’t be around for long for two reasons:

1) It’s limited to 100 pieces worldwide.
2) I doubt that they’ve got a license for it, and the IOC aren’t particularly well known for being cool with people making use of their magic rings.

I quite like the print on the back, its rather more interesting that most of the official merchandise, but I can’t work out why they’ve put their logo and that distinctly uninspired font on the front. Get rid of the front print and switch the back print to the front and I’d be a lot more impressed with this. If you’re impressed, you can find it (unless its already sold out) at the following stores.

MESS - BEIJING http://www.messbeijing.com
REACTION - GUANGZHOU http://www.reactioninc.com
ATTITUDE - HONG KONG
LIMITED EDT - SINGAPORE http://www.limitededt.com
ESPIONAGE - SYDNEY http://www.sneakers4life.com
GORILLI CONCEPT STORE - ROTTERDAM http://www.conceptstore.gorilli.com
CAPSULE - TORONTO http://www.c-apsule.com

Kiks Tyo

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I’m sure that you’ve all heard about the earthquake (and following aftershocks) that have devastated large areas in China, leaving around 34,000 dead, 29,000 missing, and almost 5 million left homeless. At times like this the design community often attempts to finds ways to help that go beyond just giving money, and the above tee is trying to do just that.It isn’t actually on sale yet, but things seem to be fairly far along so it shouldn’t be too long now. I’ll let the designer explain the design and what they’re trying to do with it:

I thought it would be cool to do something to show the true magnitude of the number of lives that have been lost, while still celebrating the uniqueness of each individual. I decided I would make a single tally mark for each of the estimated 50,000 casualties (I actually decided to do it when I still thought the number was around 12-13k, and while my investment of time is now greater - I think the significance of the project has increased as well). So the final design will feature 50,000 unique, individual marks.

50,000 lives lost
50,000 individual marks
50,000 shirts
50,000 people supporting the cause

My goal would be to sell each of the 50,000 shirts for $20 over-cost in order to raise a minimum of $1,000,000.00. Our target price is currently $24/shirt

Each shirt will be individually numbered (1 of 50,000 and so on) on the back shoulder. Shirt numbers 1 and 50,000 will be reserved for an auction to help raise even more support.

I was also thinking that we could allow for donations above and beyond the final price tag - so if I wanted to buy the shirt for $50.00, I could do so.

The final donation would be given to either the Red Cross or World Vision, or some other relief organization currently working in China.

It would be brilliant if they could reach their goal of $1 million dollars for charity, getting everything set up quickly is clearly very important, so that the events are still fresh in people’s minds.

Here’s a few relevant links:
FiftyThousandShirts.com - Main website of the project
Related Emptees Thread
Related blog post from the host store

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Tags » Charity • china • earthquake • emptees • red is white • T-shirts • white

I’ve clearly gone a bit Asian with today’s product picks, first a tee from Hong Kong, and now a hoodie from a store in mainland China.This hoodie totally reminds me of the infamous Shark hoodie by A Bathing Ape, except happy rather than angry, and not a shark… so basically the only connection is that these two hoodies have a zip which goes all the way over your face, and a printed face on it. Meh, that’s still a connection!

Costiness=ï¿¥588 (about $84) Link

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Tags » black • china • eno • face • facezip • hoodie • Mens • touma