Lady Noir had a fabulous fashion show last week and i was lucky enough to be up front with my trusty Nikon D80 and SB600 flash. The flash was set up to bounce off the ceiling which was nice and low for a club (the even was held at a trendy new place in San Francisco called Apartment 24). The only downside of this location was even though I was on the guest list the bouncers were total douchebags, and I almost missed the runway portion of the show. That being said I did finally get in and shot the show, kudos to Sharon for organizing it because it went very well and the crowd really loved it. Great models, good clothes and a real runway. I’d really like to see more indie clothing focused fashion shows as it provides something fun and different for people to see and do. Fashion shows should not be reserved for high fashion and there should be more stuff that anyone can buy. Feel free to ping me if you are doing one, and of course invite me Here are a few select photos, you can see the full set on flickr here.

Mary Poppins T-shirt“>
Mary Poppins T-shirt

Femme Fatale Hoodie

(that’s Sharon in the middle, the girl behind the brand)

Not sure how long the Phelps as a sperm T-shirt is going to be funny, but this will likely get a lot of laughs at your local drinking hole for a while. I have not been watching the Olympics much, but when I was at a pub trivia night tonight I was mesmerized by the coverage that was on the TV.

UPDATE: thanks so much everyone, we found this pretty quickly, it’s a company called Identity Malien this is a link to their store and this T-Shirt which is called Jawless

Well it was bound to happen sooner or later, but I got this delicious T-Shirt in the mail with no identifying information except it was fulfilled by Merchline who of course have hundreds of stores. I’d love to find the company that made it, anyone recognize it? I’ve got a $25 Threadless Gift Certificate for anyone who provides me a lead that results in me finding these guys (doesn’t count if it’s the company that sells it gets in touch with me). Anyway, i’ve worn this design once and got just a tonne of comments on it, so i’d love to promote these guys.

Cheers,

Karl

Homeroom Clothing is a local San Francisco outfit started by Alval, a third generation tailor. He made himself a hoodie when he was in college and when wearing it on Haight St a woman from Complex magazine stopped him and asked him where he got it from, when he said it was his own creation, she asked what his clothing line was called, when he said he didn’t have one, she said he should, and the rest as they say is history. I have a couple of homeroom shirts and the shirts and designs are very well made, and more importantly original. I’ve known about these guys for a while but they didn’t have a full on ecommerce web site, now they do.

All work and no pay, water based ink, 6oz 100% cotton tee

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Apparently the guys at Headline Shirts have discovered some additional mascots for the Bejing olympics that didn’t quite make the cut including Beibei the Rights-Abusing Panda. Features include barbed wire Bejing icon, Olympic Handcuffs, night stick, and of course Olympic torch. Of course I can’t see this without thinking of Sexual Harassment Panda from South Park >grin<

Beijing, China - Adorable and innocent — if a tad infantile — the five Olympic mascots, known as Fuwa, have been winning the hearts of children globally.

Lesser known is that the saccharine Fuwa characters were not the first choice of the Olympic organizers, who considered adopting characters more representative of modern China. Headline Shirts has acquired exclusive sketches of three of the would-be mascots. They include Beibei the Rights-Abusing Panda, Jingjing the Monk-Impaling Tibetan Antelope, and Yuyu, a swallow who brings good luck wherever she flies — and who also directs a murderous organ-harvesting campaign against the Falun Gong.

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David, founder of Seibei is turning 26 on August 18th so to help celebrate his birthday he is taking 26% off your order! Just use coupon code BIRTHDAY through August 21st to get 26% off.

Some of my Seibei favs include:

The super homosexual T-shirt

I like to eat cake and smoke ciggarettes

and Seibei’s zombie hunter t-shirt that you can order with variable amounts of gore, genius.

And of course here’s me and David at the Renegade art fair showing off the rocking Make Me a Sandwich t-shirt

thanks Fantastic Bonanza

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The Tea Bag T-Shirt is something low-brow and geeky for Friday, a hysterical combination of the Head On commercial and the age old video game tradition of teabagging, great stuff, use coupon code “TEABAGU” for 20% off. On a side note I found this T-Shirt in a magazine that I had never heard of before called Geek Monthly, my only question is why don’t I have a freaking subscription to this?

LOS ANGELES???Acting on information gathered from billboards, alternative weeklies, and Internet banner ads, an FBI strike team liberated 14 dazed, sallow, and undernourished American Apparel models in a raid on the controversial organization’s downtown Los Angeles compound early Monday.

“There were girls lying everywhere???draped over furniture, sprawled spread-eagled in the corner, and huddled close like animals,” FBI Special Agent Curtis Froman, who oversaw the raid, said at a press conference. “Many of them had been given nothing more than a pair of tube socks or men’s briefs to wear.”

Via The Onion, Americas finest news source

This looks like it will be a fun event, and combine the free vodka, an Americas Top Chef contestant cooking some treats, charity support $10 is not bad for a cool event on a Friday night.

Location: Apartment 24
440 Broadway St, San Francisco, CA 94133
Doors: 9pm Runway: 11pm

944 Magazine presents a bold new fashion show & runway concept from “LADY NOIR,” The event will begin at 9:00pm at one of the cities hottest new venues: Apartment 24 (440 Broadway ??? North Beach) and will feature a complimentary vodka tasting sponsored by award winning Snow Queen Vodka (Double Gold Winner ??? Best of Vodka Category ??? SF World Spirits Competition 2008), along with special appetizers created by Ryan Scott, executive chef of Mission Beach Caf?? and contestant on “Top Chef.”

The event promises to attract some of the sexiest fashion forward people the city has to offer and will be photographed and filmed by 944 magazine, and co-hosted by SF Station and Bad Kitty productions (the team behind the 2007 trunk show series at 111 Minna Gallery). Music will be provided by DJ David Carvalho, whom has graced the turn tables at many of the top venues in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas & Miami.

A portion of the proceeds will go to MADRE, an international women’s rights group “demanding human rights for women and families around the world.”

I saw this shirt the other day on threadless when it was still being scored and knew it would soon be printed and it was.

Thanks to the Mad Finn who alerted me to this

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I love this Magritte inspired T-Shirt from The Girl and Rhino, I have the actual shirt and it’s a great quality shirt and print. I met these guys at the Filmore Jazz festival and their shirts look great. They got a lot of press a while ago for their AT-AT dreams t-shirt which is also brilliant and gets a smile from anyone in the Bay Area. You can’t drive over the Bay Bridge without someone saying “hey you see those cranes over there on the dock…. ” yes we know

I also love this threadless on which i have mentioned before

This is not a pipe from threadless

Newly reprinted at Threadless, get them while their hot

Find out more about the surrealist Magritte at wikipedia

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I don’t know where to buy this T-Shirt but I love it, I especially love the picture of the kid wearing it, so awesome. I’ll give a $25 Threadless Gift Certificate to the first that links in the comments to where you can buy the original version of this shirt.

Looks like the original (or at least the one pictured) is from defectivewear.com

Cory also suggested this one in the comments.

Which came first though?

UPDATE: ok, looks like the Destroy All Monsters version is the original, created in 2007 as opposed to Defectivewear which is dated 2008, Cory wins

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Oh, what’s t-shirt connection? Well funny you should ask but this was filmed at the Bustedtees officeand guest stars a hoodie similar to the fab Seibei hoodie here

Check out the fab Star Wars tribute here as well, also very well done.

Hey all, I could not resist buying this T-Shirt from Ffee clothing the other day, and having purchased it for my own personal consumption I had not planned on reviewing it as I have a bunch of samples waiting for my attention. That being said, when I opened the package I was so impressed I had to take some snaps and post about it.

The T-shirt came in a really nice canvas bag, with a rough string tied in a bow, and once you opened the bag you found the T-shirt (obviously), a sticker, moo-card, and water pistol. Sure it doesn’t make the T-Shirt any better (although Ffee stuff is very nice, labeless, soft, an uses water based inks), but it made the experience that much more memorable. Talking about memorable two other companies that stood out when I got their packages were Johnny Cupcakes and Oddica, check them out. Any of you guys have any T-Shirt/clothing companies that stood out through their packaging?

On a slightly different topic, I’m sorry i’ve been a bit MIA recently but things have been getting crazy busy this month. Just to give you a snippit, ‘m going to be teaching a course at the Academy of Art University in Social Media (so i’m putting the curriculum together), speaking at the Inverge Conference in Portland at the beginning of September (putting a presentation together), trying to get a line of T-shirts printed (talking to designers, artists, licensing, contracts etc.), trying to get a press pass for the Magic Conference in Las Vegas for August 25th to 27th, oh and I have a full time job, oh and how about trying to maintain a social life. Anyway, if you have emailed me, sent me samples, or invited me to your facebook group I may not have responded, so forgive me.

citizen:citizen opened its new traveling pop-up shop ???mini-market??? at silverman gallery
in San Francisco. The shop features citizen:citizen curated selection of goods, including T-Shirts, jewelry, and all kinds of wonderful stuff designed by local and international designers. Most items are limited editions and the first shop will be closed on august 31st.

The Silverman Gallery is at 804 Sutter Street in Downtown San Francisco.

A bit more about citizen:citizen -

One of the growing elements of CITIZEN:Citizen is that of curatorial and creative direction. We develop culturally significant ideas, projects and events for organizations ranging from global fashion houses to galleries and museums. It???s an natural extension of our interest in offering new ways of seeing.

Elsewhere: Design Boom and PSFK

When I first saw these Star Wars Election ‘08 T-shirts on Zazzle I wondered who was going to get their ass sued off by Lucas Film, until I noticed that the store was an official Lucas Film store, and there are others like this Clone Wars store, and this classic Star Wars store. So it would seem over the last few months come pretty big companies have woken up to the wonder of print on demand like my recent story on CNN printing headlines on shirts (which was Spreadshirt BTW).

It seems that Zazzle that I used to put in the same category as Cafe Press is demonstrating quite a distinct strategy aiming for big deals like merchandise for Myspace, Lucas Film and Disney as opposed to catering exclusively to mom and pops. Probably a very smart move from a business standpoint especially when you think about the marketing reach of really big properties.

Related: A “The USA Today” article on Zazzle’s deals with Lucas Film

and a previous favorite the The Top Ten Star Wars T-Shirts

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I’ve seen funnier episodes of Human Giant but few more appropriate for Tcritic, enjoy

In other news NPR’s On The Media is running a T-Shirt design contest, and I know you would love your design to be pimped at the next fund raiser so walk don’t run…

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I think this is an incredibly interesting graphic that would make a stellar T-Shirt. Unfortunately I have no idea of the origin, does anyone know what designer did this? I found it randomly from a friend on Plurk. If you havn’t checked out Plurk it’s a new service that is sort of like a combination of Twitter and chatrooms which makes for interesting threads especially around images and videos. It’s worth checking out and feel free to add me as a friend.

UPDATE: Thanks to Maja in the comments have tracked down the designer of the graphic, it was Julia Hoffman for Mens Health magazine.

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Check out this great Instructable on how to make your own “beating heart LED T-shirt“. If anyone else does something like this please send photos and i’ll update this.

Remember the Turn Signals built into your Hoodie from Makezine? These are cutting edge but i’m sure in the next couple of years led’s and “light emitting fabric” is going to start to become more prevalent.

Designers who contributed to the article include:

On a lighter note, if you are a long time reader you may remember my post about the Design-Police.org and their nice little design critique sticker set.

I think some T-Shirt designers could use some things like “Unoriginal idea” “Over use of beer pong” and “Remove arrow pointing at penis”.