This ‘Ferrari’ is made from 1,500 t-shirts, 88 pairs of jeans and 26 pairs of shoes and baseball caps from Puma… and probably hundreds of hours of interns time. Visit Creative Review to see a video of the construction of this master-tee-ce*.
*Yeah, that fake word sucks and shall be fired out of a metaphorical cannon into a metaphorical bottomless pit immediately.
This infographic has been doing the rounds recently and I had to share it. I used to be of the opinion that Ed Hardy clothing was just a bit OTT, but recently I’ve put it with another of my clothing pet peeves – wearing flip flops when you aren’t at the beach or in your own home – wearing it comes with an attitude. [via Pop Culture Tees]
For those of you that were reading HYA back in the day, the answer to that question will be pretty obvious, but considering most of you weren’t around then (quite a few thousand of you, in fact), Sweden’s T-Post may be news to you. They’re a subscription based clothing company that base their designs on a news story and send you a fresh tee each month. That’s the short version, if you want a longer version that’s animated and cool (and in HD is your monitor has that capability) check out the video, which contains 1 use of the F-bomb, which your boss might not like, but I’m sure none of you read HYA at work anyway, you’re all good boys and girls.
Okay, so that title isn’t true, that I know of at least, but you could basically say anything about American Apparel CEO Dov Charney and people are going to believe it. According to Gawker (so you might want to take this news with a heaped tablespoon of salt), Dov has decided that poor retail sales are because of unattractive staff in his stores, rather than because of the unacceptably expensive and surprisingly ugly hipster-rave gear that he sells
I like American Apparel’s tees, and I like their hoodies, but I find most of the other stuff to be a bit of a turn-off, and for me to find it expensive says something, because I am perfectly happy to spend money on a product if I think it’s worth something. I know that this news, if it is indeed true, is a bit off-topic for HYA, but I’d be interested to know if all the stories about Dov effect whether tee producers want to use his product when printing their own tees. American Apparel are by far the most popular choice for a blank tee in the indie clothing world, at least that’s how it appears when I look at my wardrobe, but I would imagine that if stories like this keep coming out then being ’sweatshop free’ isn’t going to be enough for AA and people might start heading elsewhere.
Thoughts?
*Incidentally, Monkey Knife Fight is the name of a great beer that you can get at a bar on Sansom St. in Philly, but I’ve forgotten the name of the bar, it’s an upstairs bar near Local 44? Anyone?
I was perusing Beautiful/Decay’s new site dedicated to their apparel line (the actual store is still served by Indie Merch though), and I noticed that they’re offering mystery grab bag’s of their hoodies and tees. 2 random hoodies for $60, 3 random artist series tees for $30, and 3 random tees for $25. Considering that [...]
Do you remember Yackfou? They’re a bunch of Berliners who produce clothes that have a touch of awesome about them, and now you don’t just have to buy those clothes online, you can buy them in their shop (yes, a real shop, with windows and stuff).Well, not quite yet, the shop, located on the Boxhagener [...]
Things are starting to become a bit clearer thanks to a major overhaul on the T-shirt day website, it’s gone from a plain outline of a tee last week to the fully blown site that you can see in the screenshot. From the looks of things, Spreadshirt will be holding events in Berlin and Boston, [...]
You might have noticed me slipping in a link to this site a couple of days ago, which was a little sneaky, I’ll admit, so I thought I’d better give it a proper mention.
TeeBurst is a site I’ve created (using this clever persons code) to deliver a constantly updated stream of t-shirt news and media. [...]
I had to write the title twice for two reasons:
1. I’ve got a migraine so I’m going to skip the usual recommendation for the day, and give you a link so that your visit wasn’t a waste (my pain, your gain!).
2. The pain suffered by small independent designers all around thw world when big corporates [...]
