Uniqlo – Everything Must Go!

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British Design, Japanese t-shirts, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Keith Harring, art shirts, artist t-shirt designs, famous artist fashion, uniqlo

Chloe Sevigny fronted Uniqlo's last t-shirt campaign Here’s a tip from one of Buy Tees female readers to take a look at the sale now on at Uniqlo – a high street favourite in Japan that has spread its wings as far as the UK. Elle Magazine even featured the store in April this year featuring actress/fashion impressario Chlo√´ Sevigny sporting a groovy tee (see pic).

Their latest T-shirts on sale were originally designed in collaboration with iconic (famous in the 80’s) Australian artist Keith Haring, other t-shirts using work by the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat as well as a line devoted to the 50th anniversary of Manga magazines. Usually on sale at £12.99 you can grab these groovy tees for as little as £2.99 whilst the sale is on! There are some real beauties there for men and women, and at these prices you can’t really complain, can you? Besides with the way that GBP Sterling is tumbling I’m sure most of the world will agree :p read more

Aug

Akumu Ink aka Japanese Nightmare Tees!

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Akuma T-Shirts, Blood, Edgar Allen Poe, Japanese horror, Japanese t-shirts, The Raven, gore, grudge, ju-on grudge, nevermore, the ring

Impaled at akumu Ink I have left Dora from AkumuInk.com waiting in the wings for a few days whilst I took a brief but well deserved miniature t-shirt sabbatical -the truth is the best thing you can do when you’re hilt by the stultifying presence of mortality is to carry on doing what you did before, a little wiser, a little more focused than before, and so I want to give a mention to AkumuInk.com – a small but thriving independent Canadian t-shirt label offering something a little off the wall compared to most.

Akumu means Nightmare in Japanese. As Dora states – “We get our inspirations from Japanese horror movies and hardcore music. We translate these inspirations into large graphics that we screen print onto American Apparel t-shirts.” I’m a big fan of Japanese horror, in fact most Asian horror of the 1990’s and beyond have trashed anything on par from the States. Japanese horror dwells in places you wouldn’t want to dream, confronts ideas you’d rather not tackle, and delivers images that imprint on your subconscious far more deeply than any trash gore flick could manage. I was expecting to see some references to Original Japanese versions of The Ring or Ju-on: The Grudge, (not the awful American remakes), but copyright concerns mean t-shirt designers have to think “outside the box” when it comes to appropriated influences. read more