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Jesus & Judaz boxed and gold limited edition tee, online exclusive at WrongWroks the 05/25 !

Beautiful/Decay is excited to announce four completely new Artists Series Apparel designs from artists Jesse LeDoux, Aaron Noble, Dust La Rock and Jan Kallwejt. The shirts are available at American Rag CIE, Grey One, The Reed Space, The Closet, Metropark, Zebraclub and Beautiful Decayonline

These artists and designers, with their distinct subject matters, represent an extension of Beautiful/Decay creative content and vision.

As always, they are custom-cut, custom-dyed and printed on super soft, 100% cotton bodies.

Jesse LeDoux creates a cosmically inspired “Giant Hand” design which transforms from teal to pink with a universe of white line drawings enclosed within.

He combines his avant-garde design sensibility with basic drawing materials-”pens, pencils and a few sheets of paper.” Jesse LeDoux worked for over seven years as an art director and designer for Sub Pop Records, creating iconic album artwork for artists such as The Shins, Iron and Wine and Hot Hot Heat. In 2004 he launched his own illustration/design firm LeDouxville and currently works out of his studio in Providence, RI.

Jan Kallwejt’s “Lung Music” shirt features a musical take on the human internal organ system. Kallwejt’s work often features simple shapes, symbolic forms and clean, plain colors. Born in Warsaw, Poland, Kallwejt currently works with 4RK Unstable Media.

Artist Aaron Noble fashions a strikingly bold “Caliph” design that could be a comic book superhero’s hallucinatory nightmare. Noble is a west coast muralist and co-founder and director of the Seminal Clarion Alley Mural Project in San Francisco.

Artist and designer Joshua Prince a.k.a Dust La Rock’s design “Silent Weapon for Quiet Wars” features a masked figure riding a fantastical, hyper-colored horse. His work has been described as “heady” with surreal, psychedelic and anti-social tendencies. Dust La Rock currently works from his Brooklyn based studio.

Headquartered in Compton, California, True Love & False Idols is a fresh new apparel company embracing a philosophy both seductive and subversive: “to do what we love in a climate of lemmings, man-babies and pseudo heroes… to enjoy and believe in what we’re doing, take chances, have fun.”

An artist-owned and design-driven collective, TL&FI brings uncommon passion and daring to its work, creating men’s tops that push beyond anything seen before with innovative art, washes and embellishments. Making its official bow this past February at MAGIC’s Project Show in Las Vegas, the brand has already been flying off the racks at the best boutique and department stores in the U.S.

In addition to fully-lined, outside-printed hoodies that have garnered the most attention to date, True Love & False Idols launched with a broad line of custom-body t-shirts, long-sleeves, polos, wovens, blazers and jackets; more hoodies are expected by fall, with cashmere sweaters, new long-sleeve tees and seasonal jackets (from hunting jackets to parkas) expected for Holidays 2006. Using exclusively premium cotton, fleece, cashmere and other high-grade fabrics, the brand is further distinguished by a variety of artistic washes – from Bad Streak and Oil Stain to Acid and the jauntily named Yellowstone Park Geyser wash – as well as integrated appliqués, metal foils and other touches.

“Typically, our work is hand drawn and tends toward a wild, stream-of-consciousness, overdesigned look,” says Alex 2Tone, the company’s principal graphic designer, who indicates that the first season of True Love & False Idols is built around such themes as glittery idolatry, weaponry, redemption, desire, and the love of good hard music.

Its cursive-embellished logo, flowing tropical scenes and psychedelic-flavored collages find a complement in such fun and provocative designs as a flying squirrel (”Cocaine Breakfast”), an intentional Gucci knockoff (”You’re Only As Good As What You Steal”) and the highly scrolled and somewhat obscured exhortation (”Fuck the Industry”).

True Love & False Idols extends its creativity into subtle, watermark prints and flocked jackets with colorful, custom-printed lining, allowing a bright palette to give the brand its distinct upbeat sensibility, informed by the beach culture of Southern California. Says Alex 2Tone, “We’re not so dark and gloomy. We’re more Miami Vice than Bride of Frankenstein.”

Currently focusing on the men’s market with plans to expand into women’s wear, the brand courts upscale, discriminating consumers with its price point of $50-85 for tees, appx. $110 for wovens, $200-275 for hoodies, and $300 for jackets.

From the start of the year, True Love & False Idols has been available at Nordstrom department stores nationwide and at such high-end regional boutiques as Kitson, Fred Segal, M Fredric and The Lounge.

The company is moving to export its wares overseas as well, initially aiming for Canada, Japan, Australia and Europe.

True Love & False Idols was born of a collaboration between “the two Alexes”: Alex 2tone, UCLA film school dropout, L.A. graffiti veteran, freelance designer and most recently art director at Howe Denim, and one-time rival Alex Vaz, a recipient of both business and fashion undergraduate degrees who met 2Tone while a junior designer at Howe Denim.

Both shared a love of Korean barbeque, stolen music and inane humor, and from this partnership sprang a desire to create a line of original apparel. Vaz, who focuses on construction, producing and sourcing for the company, wanted to name it True Love. 2Tone, the graphic designer, pushed for False Idols, so the merged moniker represents a unity of both viewpoints.

Seen in the recent Jamie Foxx video, “Hey, DJ, Play Another Love Song,” True Love & False Idols also adorned the chest of Linkin Park rapper/keyboardist Mike Shinoda during the 2006 Grammy Awards and that of Fort Minor and S.O.B. rapper Ryu during an appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” Look for it everywhere this Spring…

Sold online at :

• Bazaar Adriatic
• Style Rocket

Monsieur T.®, a small streetwear label from Portland, Oregon, announces the debut of their Spring/Summer 2007 collection.

Each season their line grows and features more talented artists from around the world, many of whom have worked in one way or another in the skateboarding industry.

Two new artists joined the roster this season: Royal Remarkable from North Carolina and Delarocca from France. In addition to the newcomers, the line features designs by Monsieur T. regulars: the Berkley brothers, Bwana Spoons, and Martin Ontiveros (all from Portland), plus Matt Lyon from England, Emil Kozak from Denmark, Fernando Elvira from Spain, and Tomontherock from France.

The diverse range of artists brings a variety of graphic styles, from paper cuts to line drawings to photoshopped collages. It’s an eclectic mix, yet it comes together harmoniously to fit the Monsieur T. aesthetic of fusing art, skateboard culture, and street fashion. Monsieur T.’s shirts are in select independent boutiques worldwide, and also on their website Quentin Nguyen, owner and creative director of Monsieur T., is a French native who spent his youth skateboarding, snowboarding, and listening to loud music.

Monsieur T. was established in 2004. They are always on the lookout for inspired artists.

Newest shirt “STOP SHARK FINNING” at Bant-shirts . Shark finning is an extremely serious problem which is threatening many species of sharks with extinction.

The money raised from the sale of this shirt is all going to support Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an organisation that intervenes to stop illegal fishing and whaling, and who campaign to protect sharks and other ocean life.

(The practice of shark finning entails hacking off the shark’s fins on board the boat and throwing the rest of the shark - dead or alive - back into the ocean. There has been a massive growth in demand for shark fin soup in the Far East which has pushed the price of shark fins up to several hundred dollars per pound - the rest of the shark is of little commercial value and is often discarded to make room for other catch which will fetch a better price. Shark fin soup was traditionally consumed only as a delicacy, however with the increase in prosperity it is being consumed in massive and unsustainable amounts).

“We’re a small business based in Boulder, Colorado and our company is the culmination of years of blood, sweat, and tears. I’m a writer and photographer and we put a lot of effort into the writing and images on our site and I think they turned out pretty cool.

We have some unique product ideas and my favorite is what we call the “Freedom of Speech Bubble”: Essentially, it’s a shirt with an head of Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Tom Cruise, or Paris Hilton with a blank speech bubble where the customer can write their own saying with iron-on letters or erasable markers.

We also have a pretty cool contest associated with the Freedom of Speech Bubble concept where people send us their ideas for shirts and we mail our 3 favorite submissions a free shirt every week.

In our short existence, “Han’s Solo”, “High Roller”, and “F The Media - Solid Gold Dancer Edition” have been our most popular designs. I’m pretty political so I personally wear around a “Media Pimp” or “Hot Tub Philosophy” shirt almost every day”.

BG, The Ironic T-shirt Corporation

Ten years ago (In 1972), a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground.

Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.

Be a part of the A-Team and get your t-shirt of the week with the legendary van at Shirt City !

Ten Bills will be relaunching their site soon and is having a $7 preview sale on all t-shirts as well as a promo hoodie on sale for $20 !

The latest 2007 Spring/Summer releases from Akomplice have dropped around the globe !

The collection includes tees, hoodies and crews as well as some special limited edition Liberty dresses. The range this season also features a “Reserve” section available only at select stores worldwide.

Be sure to pick yours up at Conveyor @ Fred Segal, Goliath RF, Leaders 1354, TRUE, Next or Fresh while they’re still in stock.

Or, if you can wait ‘til next week’s drop, cop the entire new season online at Digital Gravel.

Also, stay tuned for Akomplice’s forthcoming mockumentary “The Making of Waldo in The Strip Club”.

For more information, check out Akomplice’s website or their MySpace.

Dans l’esprit de créer un nouveau marché et de cibler celui des 20-35 ans sensibles à la mode et aux graphismes de qualités, la marque MS WEAR TM présente une nouvelle vision du prêt à porter haut de gamme qui lui permet d’être plus ou moins in classifiable par rapport aux marques existantes.

Car par son créateur lui même issu du graphisme, de la culture club et grand amateur d’architecture; la marque s’appuie sur les influences les plus fines que l’on peut retrouver dans les rues et les concepts stores les plus branchés de la planète. Ce qui donne à la marque par sa démarche de création et d’originalité un côté plus proche des créateurs.

Toujours dans le souci d’allier mode, qualité des graphismes et image de marque bien distincte des autres, MS WEAR TM vend des tee shirts homme et femme réalisés en étroite collaboration avec des graphistes indépendants et chacun reconnus dans leur milieu respectif. C’est en travaillant sous la direction artistique de la société Ministry Of Design TM que la marque se forge une identité qui lui est propre.

Les sérigraphies ainsi que le montage des vêtements sont réalisés en Union Européenne par une usine partenaire qui est aussi fabricant de cotons et de mailles.

Pour les détaillants en Ile De France sachez que toute livraison au dessus de 10 pièces est gratuite.

• MS WEAR TM, le site internet
• MS WEAR TM, in the place to be.

NEW Shirts from YACKFOU.

Fastfood Munchies get faces, Creating your own Human with funky beards and Bowls disguised as arm-haired women with pink lipstikcs and other crazy stuff at YACKFOU !

Peer Pressure comprises a set of group dynamics whereby a group of people in which one feels comfortable may override the personal habits, individual moral inhibitions or idiosyncratic desires to impose a group norm of attitudes or behaviors.

Peer Pressure on the other hand is a weekend project for Australian born graphic designer Rob Cordiner (Task-Focused Design).

Under the banner of Peer Pressure, Rob and his peer group create a variety of works that sit casually on the fence between art & graphic design, occasionally throwing fruit at passers-by.

Kicking off in April 2007 with debut “Boat the Rock” T Shirt -stay tuned for a sporadic output of T’s, prints and other good stuff …

… into a ninja mask !

Message from el presidente of Beldam Clothing : all bedlam tees are priced to move at just $6 until they’re gone !

Computer template by Chop Shop !