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Brianne Cirel and Johnie Thornton create one of a kind works of art using every day garments and apparel as the canvas. The goal of their company, Six Foot Owl Clothing and Art, is to put original images onto the bodies of original people. Not only does 6FO make original garments, but they also customize people’s existing favorite items of clothing.

Bri, Six Foot Owl:

“Six Foot Owl believes that clothing is one of the most expressive forms of self-representation a person can use. When putting on clothes, we are making conscious decisions that are exposed to the people in the world who see us. Clothes should display the unique set of preferences of what each of us find to be beautiful, or funny, or sexy, or sophisticated. Clothes offer us the opportunity to make statements that reflect our personal and social awareness…not just that we “heart” New York”.

After all, in the wise words of fantastically fashionable Mr. T, “Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt don’t wear clothes with your name on it, so why should you wear their name?” Why indeed, T… Why indeed.

Six Foot Owl customizes, personalizes, and brings significance to the items people choose to clothe themselves in.

Six Foot Owl Clothing and Art began in 2006 when a skate shop in Downtown Oakland named Clean asked Brianne Cirel to showcase some of her artwork. Bri had recently returned from a trip to London where she found inspiration in the public works of various London Street Artists, Banksy in particular.

Bri began to think of ways to display her art and ideas in the same sort of public arena, minus the whole vandalism thing. After finding a large bag of free used t-shirts on the street, Bri asked her best friend/roommate, Johnie Thornton, to collaborate with her by painting on the t-shirts for a display at her art show.

Once the two of them got going, they realized the massive potential that hand painted custom clothing held. Their works of art could literally walk out of the gallery and develop a whole new context on the street. Much in the same spirit of the British Street Artists, Bri and Johnie felt that art’s natural habitat is not on the wall of a gallery-it is in the eye of the viewer.

Art should not lay dormant in a gallery like some princess imprisoned in a tower. It should be out amongst the public, being seen, inciting reactions, affecting the way people think and feel, and just generally causing a fuss. And in this, Six Foot Owl Art and Clothing was born.

As the two friends continued to paint on clothing, they received a ton of support and requests for custom products. They began to realize that other people were just as tired of seeing the same old mass-produced clothes around, which speaks nothing to each person’s individuality.

Everyone 6FO came into contact with became excited at the idea of wearing something that was made specifically for him or her to wear.

The two friends recently moved to LA where they are currently showing their artwork and apparel collections at galleries and stores around the Southern California area. These kids are just getting started and they are both very excited to establish and expand Six Foot Owl art and clothing.

This is the WrongWroks Fall Collection (part II):

Ps: All their tees are now packaging with their nice and thick zip-log bag, to keep it clean and away from dust.

ReThink just dropped a new shirt:

Andy, ReThink:

“Its a little change from my normal stuff, but I really think people are taking to it nicely. Also I got a new colorway on the super soaker shirt in my line.

Just thought I would give ya the heads up and thanks for getting me to start budgeting money for those awesome new Adidas kicks. Any help you could give me would be awesome and much appreciated as always”.

New MHI New Flesh, Sparx & The Power Of God Mode2 T-shirts from Urban Industry.

Since its birth in 1994 Maharishi has evolved into one of the UK’s most influential designer labels, offering men’s, women’s and children’s collections available from exclusive fashion retailers worldwide.

Founded by creative director Hardy Blechman, Maharishi carries a strong ethos of respect for nature while utilising the latest technology.

Maharishi prides itself on gaining a respected reputation for not conforming to mainstream fashion trends, placing emphasis on its own points of inspiration and the natural progression of excellent quality, perfect fit and original design.

The company continues to develop and expand with a positive attitude, open mind and unique approach, firmly positioning it as one of the most influential and progressive international brands around.

Daisy Lowe out-and-about during fashion week wearing the Amplified Iron Maiden t-shirt.

Available for £25.

Eroteme clothing, a brand new T-shirt company having just launched their site in early September, is already making big changes and waves in the t-shirt industry.

They constantly strive to make their site more intuitive and an overall better experience. Each shirt is given a personalized description that reflects the attitude of the shirt and Eroteme Clothing. Designs are inspired by structure, nature and general artistic observation giving each shirt a real story.

At launch they opened with 50 designs for both men and women. They add new shirts frequently, increasing an already robust catalogue. At Eroteme the shirts are as individual as the designers and their customers.

They hope to create a recognizable label that is unique while staying true to their style.

BEAUTIFUL/DECAY are running a fun T-shirt sale- all XL shirts!

Opium Dream is the latest Lucky loser shirt printed on ABT.

Designed by Martin Krusche - the mastermind behind Yackfou -
it shows an opium smoking dragon printed black with decent
halftones on a white American Apparel shirt.

Vintage Angel is Limited to just 75 shirts.

Classic art design with distressed print on a creme colored AA shirt.
Limited Time Price: $15.99 (thats 7 buck off). Discounted price is for email subscribers only.

Veuch Tee (Cross Series) at Esteem/404shop:

Cameesa is an online clothing startup based out of Chicago.

Their users, through crowdfunding, decide which designs they print. Once a design is submitted to Cameesa, it must raise 50 Parts in $20 increments in order to be printed.

Once 100% supported, the people who supported the design, and the artist, get a special edition of the shirt and earn when it is sold.

The idea with Cameesa is to get more people involved in the clothing creation process, and empower artists to get their work printed. Unlike other t-shirt sites, there is no voting on our site, they use crowdfunding to drive their decisions.

Enclothe is having a 30% off sale this month, as they are moving to San Diego, CA and getting ready to open a design studio, and art gallery.

If you haven’t come across +1 Magazine on your travels before then you should take a minute to check this out…

Distributed for free and aimed at 15 to 35 year olds who struggle to find anything relevant to them on the printed page, +1 is devoted to the best in music, art, illustration, travel, literature, and fashion.

Now into Issue 6 featuring Shepard Fairey & Dave the Chimp.

Issue 5 features French.

Get them HERE for FREE…. Just pay P&P.

Monsieur T.’s fall line is now available on their website and at Krudmart !

The highlight of this line is a shirt made in collaboration with world famous skateboard photographer Jon Humphries.

The graphic pokes fun at the ultra trendy fixed gear bike. A couple of the other new designs pay tribute to the edgy cartoon Heavy Metal. There’s even a twisted version of a cuddly 80’s childhood icon as well as some popular designs carried over from last season in different colorways.

Artists who produced designs for the Fall/Holiday line include: Delarocca, Tom Webb, Scott Barry, Scrappers, and the Berkley brothers.

A big thanks to Reach for sending over a copy of “Tooya” all the way from Taiwan…

It arrived yesterday morning along with Reach Shoelaces, Badge, Lighter, Stickers, DVD & Poster… I like FREE stuff!!

Graffiti in Chinese is pronounced “Tooya” hence the name of the book!! All about Taiwanese Graffiti and just how far they have come in the Street Art Scene.

Including Artists such as: Reach, Foochi, Easy, Dzusone, Chek, Colasa, Saym, Winston, & Soulskool.

It came with a DVD too featuring all of the Artists at work. CLICK HERE for a preview

Get your hands on a copy if you can…