Can you imagine there being a collaboration by two cooler entities? Lovefoxxx, the vocalist from Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS), who was voted the 3rd coolest person in the world in 2007 (according to NME, but still), has teamed up with graniph, one of my favourite brands, to release a couple of tees.

Lovefoxxx was actually a fashion design assistant and illustrator before doing the whole music ‘thing’ full-time, so its hardly a surprise that she’s produced a couple of great looking tees. I was going to say that they didn’t really fit with graniph’s typical style, but then as I was browsing the store I realised that graniph doesn’t actually have a ‘look’, unless that ‘look’ is ‘great looking tees’.

The tee is released on November 20th, so you’ve got plenty of time to save up your yen to buy it.

Graniph

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Answer: Usually, just the one, or maybe a couple if they’re feeling friendly. The above tee however is an altogether different beast, as it involves more than 50 zombified drawings by Emptees members (I’m not sure how many, but I know that there was quite a lot of members working on this). If you like zombies, I assume that you’re going to be all over this zombies on a fresh brain, and if not, well, you probably gave up reading this a few sentences ago.

The tee is described as the Emptees ‘Anniversary’ tee, so I guess it its their way of celebrating their firsty year of existence, and it is also the first tee that Emptees are actually selling themselves.

Costiness=$20 Buy it at Emptees

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Tags » American Apparel • collaboration • emptees • grey • silver • T-shirts • zombies

I can’t really imagine people actually wearing this stuff, although Asian streetwear culture is vastly different to ours, so they’re probably all over it, but for some reason I kind of admire the audacity of a brand for putting bikini-clad models on to t-shirts. Here’s the blurb for the top tee:

On October 3rd, Limited Edt will release a Singapore exclusive tee featuring Yuko Ishida standing inside the infamous “Vault.” Since 2005, Limited Edt’s appointment-only Vault has housed some of the rarest sneakers in the world, on display for the people of Singapore and visitors from around the globe.

The tee features a white bikini clad Yuko holding a pair of the cult-classic Air max 90 infrareds and wearing a pair of Limited Edt’s own New Balance 577 collabos.

This tee will be available exclusively in Singapore on October 3rd, at the following Limited Edt locations: Limited Edt Vault, Limited Edt Queensway, LE2 and Limited Edt Peninsula.

I did a little googling around to find out who the woman on the shirts was (Yuko Ishida), and aside from her being a ‘gravure model’ (whatever that is) and singer, I found a blog post in which she’s wearing a bra made up of rice bowls, which is about as sexy as it sounds!

Kiks Tyo

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Tags » collaboration • hot model • kiks tyo • photo • photo tee • Singapore • T-shirts • white • yuko ishida

Public Domain, who I’d like to think are amongst the most ‘Hollywood’ friends that HYA has got, have started to make some other friends, but not in the blog realm, they’re collaborating with other clothing labels, but they aren’t calling them collaborations, oh no, they aren’t merely collaborations, they are “Creative Alliances” which also sounds like something that needs Star Wars style music behind it.

To be completely honest, I’m not that excited by the t-shirt, I can see that they were going for an 80s look, but I think that they might have stuck a bit too much to the 80s aesthetic, damn them for being sticklers for authenticity! I think its the text that I don’t really like about it, which is weird because I actually quite like the font, maybe its just the colour palette. However, I am excited to see who they’ll be collaborating with next month and in the subsequent months after that. I can’t actually see it for sale on PDC’s or DURKL’s respective websites, so I don’t know where you can pick this up, but if I see it somewhere I’ll let you know, or I’ll forget, since that’s what usually happens.

Public Domain Clothing : DURKL

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Tags » cocktails • collaboration • drinks • DURKL • public domain clothing • T-shirts • white

On Saturday I was down in Manchester for an 80s party (I went as Tron) and one of the things that I wanted for my outfit was glow in the dark gloves, so I headed to a shop that could best be described as a ‘rave emporium’ and whilst they were lacking in gloves, they were not lacking in Space Invaders gear. But just for a change, it was some Space Invaders clothing that even I wouldn’t wear, seeing as it the sales assistant (who had blue hair) was wearing a day-glo yellow tee with a gold plastic space invader stuck to the front. It would have put me off Space Invaders for a long time if I hadn’t found one of the mosaics near the shop.

Thankfully though, my faith in Space Invaders was restored on Monday morning when I saw the Atmos x Space Invaders collaboration on High Snobriety.

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Tags » atmos • black • collaboration • games • japan • retro • space invaders • T-shirts • white

Wrongwroks headed out to Taiwan recently to take part in a show called Real Fake. The show exhibited works by three artists, Stay Real, Kea, and of course, Wrongwroks.

Alongside the exhibition of printed works there was also a tee release. Some people arrived at 7am in the morning to ensure they could pick up the new black Dorabob tee by Stay Real, and it didn’t even go on sale until 1pm! The tee was limited to 100 pieces, and sold out in 20 minutes (though there are now a few available on the WR site), so I guess turning up early was actually a pretty good idea. Refreshingly, fans were allowed to take pictures in the exhibition, which is something I like to see, because who are you really harming if you take a picture in a gallery?

Oh, and Wrongwroks has released a couple of really cool hats too.

I’ve gone a bit picture crazy with this post, so if you click through for the rest of the entry (RSS readers might have the whole thing without needing to click through) then there’s a pretty big gallery for you to peruse.

Wrongwroks

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Tags » collaboration • exhibition • hat • hats • kea • mashup • stay real • taipei • taiwan • wrongwroks

Remember the Popdeck x laFraise competition that I mentioned a while back? Well, it seems that things have taken on an exciting and unexpected twist!

If you purchase any deck from Popdeck (not just the winner from the laFraise competition) you’ll receive the Popcorn design that was one of the laFraise winners. That shirt costs €23 from the laFraise store, and its printed on an organic American Apparel tee, decks from Popdeck cost $40 (the $32 shipping cost to the UK is pretty high, but hey, a deck weighs a fair amount). I could do the rest of the math for you, but now matter how you plug the numbers into the equation your calculator is always going to read “hey, that’s a great deal!”

To get your free tee you first need to purchase the deck, then send an e-mail info@popdeck.com with your size. As you’d imagine, this deal is strictly whilst supplies last, so it might be a good idea to get on it sooner than later if you’re interested.

Popdeck

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Tags » collaboration • deck • design competition • free • lafraise • popdeck • skate deck • T-shirts

Yes, this tee is by Art in the Age of Reproduction, and no, I haven’t made an error in the title, although I do think that if Art in the Age and No Age team up for a collaboration that that should have dropped the ‘the’ from the title. “Art in No Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” see? Much cleaner!

I’ve never actually heard of No Age, an experimental rock/pop punk/noisepop/powerpop/shoegaze (<-- whaa??!!)/what do genre labels even mean anymore... band from Los Angeles before I found out about this tee collaboration, but I think I stopped knowing what was cool in the music world a long time ago when I unsubscribed from Stereogum and decided that I quite liked ‘Girlfriend’ by Avril Lavigne.

The tee itself has a kinda grimy punk quality to it. At first I didn’t actually find it all that appealing, and as a tee on its own it hasn’t really grown on me, but I reckon that if it were being worn by someone with a bit of a rocker look that it would be pretty badass.

Costiness=$28 Men’s tee/Women’s Tee

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I can’t decide whether I’d actually wear this tee, I’m not that into wearing tees with illustrated puke on them, but I must admit that it is a beast of a design. It’s a collaboration between Horsebites Design, Derek Deal and Team Doom, a group who, I’m sure you’ll agree, all have rather respectable design chops.

Costiness=$20 Pre-order the tee here

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Tags » American Apparel • big cartel • collaboration • derek deal • horsebites design • illustration • T-shirts • team doom • viking • white

If someone told me that X-Large were teaming up with Disney to produce a tee I’d have thought that someone was trying to sell me knock off gear in one of Hong Kong’s night markets, but no, this limited edition tee is right there on the X Large store, and the design is a pretty cool mashup of both brands too.

Costiness=$35 Tee Link

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Tags » black • collaboration • disney • gorilla • mashup • mickey mouse • T-shirts • white • X-Large