What is it? Well if you don’t know, here is the Japanese Designer Keifla explaining it. Included in the video are some examples:
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No catwalk models here. We have found a slideshow of 117 everyday woman, aged between 18-40,¬â€ wearing everyday casual and street fashion. This is the real pulse of fashion¬â€ for the¬â€ average woman today.
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Nick Garrett is the genius behind the best clothing brand to hit the shops, LOVE & TUG! After wondering around shopping one day I had a vision and saw that there was just no affordable, exciting & unique t-shirts available in today´s age for the fashion-focused male. So I believed I could change the world and bring t-shirts to the male population that were affordable, but also looked cool and were not something off the rails of Primark or the local market stall!! After hours & hours of designing from the slowest computer ever, LOVE & TUG was born!
This season the collection is in inspired by the image of the celebrity taking influences from celebs that have iconic influences on today´s youth such as Pete Doherty, Lindsay lohan and Kate Moss. Be sure to check it out at www.loveandtug.co.uk and www.myspace.com/loveandtug.
We would like to introduce the The Designer Forum¬â€ which is a UK-wide support network for the fashion & textiles industry. Actively supporting many of Britain’s leading designer & brand labels, High Street retailers, manufacturers & academia across four key areas:
DESIGN – Including Trend Resource Centre, Trend Presentations, Freelance Directory, Specialist Designer / Manufacturer’s Directory plus ** opening soon ** fashion magazine store.
BUSINESS SUPPORT & TRAINING – New start-up course specifically for fashion & textile companies, Freelance Seminars, CAD training, professional development workshops and general business advice.
RECRUITMENT – Specialising in all design & graduate positions, as well as advice on CV’s & portfolios.
EDUCATION – Providing support to students through our Student Graduate Events (an amazing series of one-day conferences – see events / interests for details!) plus also work in advisory capacity / guest lecture.
So whether you are a student, running your own fashion label or just want to know more …
Contact Details: Designer Forum, Tel: 0115 9115339, E-mail: info@design-online.net & www.design-online.net
PashFash is the brainchild of Lohit Kalburgi, star of BBC1’s The Apprentice! Being on The Apprentice inspired Lohit to combine his two passions fashion and business! PashFash is a young exciting men’s fashion label for people who take pride in what they wear. Whether its casual daytime tees or glitzy dress-up tees, PashFash has the fash you’ll love! In particular stand out with our 2 limited edition tees with only a 100 of each, bag yours while you can! All tees are made of 100% cotton and are a fashion fit so will look great on everyone! What’s more, PashFash is proud to support Barnardo’s, one of the UK’s leading children’s charities. Through their work, Barnardo’s strives to give disadvantaged young people a brighter future. 5% of all online sales through PashFash will be donated to this very worthy charity – so now you can look and feel truly AMMMMAZING!
The online boutique is now live… check out the exciting debut collection at www.pash-fash.com and get PashFashable!
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Fantastic 3D images drawn on the pavement in chalk. New Pavement Art……think one can have museum for this fantastic art.. Click on image arrows and flick through the gallery. It is amazing.
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Redmutha specialise in creating one off, customised, recycled garments for those who dare to wear them. They constantly¬â€ trawl charity shops, scour car boot sales, blitz jumble sales and scan eBay in the search for quality garments in need of a new life. It is there passion, pretty much an obsession and they love it.Skirts, shirts and blazers are tipped, picked and stitched, corsets, hats and tees are deconstructed and transformed, bags, and belts jackets are torn, adorned and re-born.They have a workshop in central Brighton piled high with all the ingredients needed to create for the Red Mutha machinecheck them out at www.redmutha.com
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Thank you David Pratt, for reminding us this month of the importance of T-shirt design. The resident of the surprisingly stylish Peterborough attracted unwelcome attention from the local authorities recently, while sporting the slogan ‘Don’t annoy me, I’m running out of places to hide the bodies!’ – (an accurate account minus the odd swear word). Mr Pratt was ordered to desist from wearing said threads, or face an ¬£80 fixed penalty fine for potentially causing offence and inciting violence. Last I heard he was following in the footsteps of other great Midland urban warriors and demanding an apology.
Good to know then that T-shirt design still has an impact. In the Pratt genre who can forget ‘ECSTASY MUDDLES YOUR BRIAN’, or the perennial classic of a zimmer frame on its side bearing the legend ‘WHERE’S NANA’? But this is merely the text section of the T-shirt encyclopaedia , unfortunate home of ‘THREE GOOD REASONS TO TEACH…JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST’. There is the fashion section, the promotional, the political, the pictorial and so on, and with these in mind I would like to ask the audacious question, ‘What makes a good T-shirt design?’
Now I’m not going to offer myself up as an arbiter of taste; the fashion police have officially banned me from that position on three counts:
1) A collection of Hawaiin shirts so lurid and distasteful, the very sight of them induces the sensation that you’ve had enough disco biscuits to fuel the Ianapa Massive for an entire season.
2) A previous conviction for posession of a class A mullett with intent to blow dry…..I can’t believe I’ve finally admitted that. There are other crimes I’d like to have taken into account, including tight Glen Hoddle style shorts and snow washed denim, but relax, not here.
3) A 1977 school trip to Venice – what could possibly be wrong with that? Well if you want the exact definition of looking a complete tit look no furthur. Picture the scene, St Mark’s Square, and a young man stands alone with a four button waistline, billowing Lionel Blairs, and high heeled shoes hewn with an axe from solid blocks of oak – I looked like I was wearing Viking long boats!
Meanwhile the locals chino’d, they Vespa’d, they perched their Ray Bans on slicked back hair, wondering if my shirt collars would have someone’s eye out, and where they could buy tickets for the circus……
So that’s me disqualified, but is there an almost scientific group of boxes that if ticked would denote good T-shirt design? If there is, perhaps it might include the following:
Message – is a feeling, a thought or an idea being conveyed? Sounds obvious, but if you’re not reading this in the bath, examine the T-shirt next to you (careful if it’s on a stranger).
Direction – is that message being aimed at a particular audience, and if so is it speaking their language?
Balance – a message conveyed too obviously is one dimensional and without interest; a message made too complex can be unintelligible and so pointless. If you will allow me I will use a lesbian example – at one end of the scale imagine a ‘convertible’ Cadillac with a pink roof – just a cool piece of artwork with a subliminal message for those in the know. At the other end of the ruler, ‘Dip Me In Honey and Throw me to the Lesbians’. One design makes subtle personal comment and provokes discussion, the other is a lads mag freebie for baseball cap wearing Nova drivers – your choice.
Simplicity – with the visual airwaves jam packed with static, maybe less is always more?
Connection – designs are usually part of a collection, and as such need to belong together. Would one be up one’s own jacksy to hope that like a good album, a great T range is a body of work with some common themes?
Current awareness – I guess relevance to trends is important, but like everything this card can be over played. Check out the ‘oh so now’ post Hamnettesque slogan prints. Back in the day they used to say ‘No to Pershing’, now they say ‘Yes to Dogging’ – chuck in some nu-rave neons and you’ve got a range so hot it’ll ignite your chest hair, in the unlikely event you forgot to wax.
Tons of style but whoops, forgot the content – wonder if it’s worth a print a la mode that just says BANDWAGON?
But does content matter any more, or are we just eager consumers of stuff, and then more stuff, topped off with a sprinkle of…..stuff?
TV would suggest that stuff will do nicely – Big Brother, Dog Borstal, Celebrity Inflammable Arse Hair – the last one may not be a real programme, it just should be. Dare I suggest why Big Brother is not entertainment? To be entertained I think we need to watch someone doing something we can’t – sitting in a room swearing repeatedly and breaking wind I can do all day, trust me. If that’s fair comment, then these programmes aren’t entertainment.
Off the subject? I hope not, because I wonder if the same applies to good design. If a collection is just a bunch of nice pictures we think yeah, nice, but I could do that. Maybe the moment of greatness is when we look and think damn, that is completely beyond me. Simple, connected, balanced just at the tipping point, with current directional message.
In short, to swipe a line from someone so much cleverer that me I can’t even remenber their name, ‘Good design, is intellect made visible’
Taking a leaf out of this book I have purchased my olive green T-shirts, I have a pot of black water based ink – I will be printing a photograph of the leader of the Peterborough Republican Army of T-shirt Terrorists. I’m calling the design Che Pratt.
Paul¬â€ Stephenson
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For the 21st century British man, the T-shirt forms the corner stone of the wardrobe. The T-shirt is his tool of self expression. Yet frustratingly, stylishly unique T-shirts elude him. Instead he´s faced with rows of tees daubed with Katherine Hamnett-esque cliches, vacuous images or the ubiquitous logo shirt. Surely there has to be more to T-shirt design than deciding the angle at which the company name should be emblazoned! So mused the founders of Soho Tuna, over a few pints in their Notting Hill local. In the cold light of day, despite the hang over, the inspiration remained and Soho Tuna became a reality.
Soho Tuna´s founders felt the UK was missing a funky, independent label creating T-shirts with graphics and images that stood out from the crowd. They set about creating more than just a design. Soho Tuna´s tees move away from the high street´s use of meaningless symbols. Soho Tuna design images tell a story; images that demand a second look. Their debut collection is inspired by their experiences of London´s vibrancy: its night life, renowned landmarks and street carnivals. They combine iconic images of London with references to its more sinister, criminal elements.
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“We’ve been designing our modern, new-vintage t-shirts from our base in England since June 2005. 2smartmonkeys was born of a hideous marriage of inconvenience between Steve Maggs and Tim Clarke (two not necessarily smart but rather over-confident monkeys) in the summer of 2005. It was initially a ‘we can do that, so why don’t we?’ kind of thing, where after doing some t-shirts for a friend’s stag do we realised that if having an original t-shirt gets that many girls to talk to you there could be something in it.”
Since the almost accidental beginning we’ve just stuck to designing t-shirts inspired by stuff that we like and that we think other people will like, to make them stand out from the mass market crowd and feel a bit freer for having something lovingly crafted about their person.
Goto: www.2smartmonkeys.com¬â€ and view the gallery of tees.
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Originated in 2005 as a surfboard label, Goofyfoot could see there was a need for surf clothing that was functional, as well as stylish, with this in mind we have created a new apparel line that meets the demands of surfers
in and out of the water, and the brand is quickly becoming a definitive name in the surf/beach and extreme sports culture. – For the girls we offer a range of vests, tee‚é„é´s and hoodies. Offering fashionable colours and eye catching designs.
– For the guys we offer distressed vintage garments that are tight or loose fitting and incorporate designs that fit your lifestyle.
– Goofyfoot’s aim is to unite the entire youth culture by connecting Surfing with Music, Skateboarding, Snowboarding, Kiteboarding, Windsurfing and all Extreme sports. Visit: www.goofy-foot.co.uk
www.Leapstore.com is the brand spanking new online clothing & lifestyle store looking to hook you up with the hottest up & coming streetwear labels including UK Premium Streetwear Label Seventyseven. Check out¬â€ the range of t-shirts, sweats, outerwear & accessories etc…
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