For The Homies - Mark Drew T Shirts

Melbourne based For The Homies got together with special guest artist Mark Drew on two T shirt designs namely Cassette Tape and NWA/With My T shirts. Evidently these designs are influenced by 90’s hip hop and cassette tape covers. After the jump is a short explanation by Mark Drew about his concept for the designs. Also along with the release of the Ts, there is a mix tape that can be downloaded online.“Growing up, album artwork and sleeve note shout-outs were the origin of a lot of my information. Being strictly into Hip Hop, it was difficult to get news on the artists I was into. Rage (late night music channel in Australia) would play the occasional film clip late at night, and Smash Hits would have some small gossip about the Fresh Prince (and many many interviews with Kris Kross), but it was mostly dead ends. Plus I didn’t want to hear about kids my age in backwards pants, I wanted to hear about guns, over beats! Living pretty far from the source (and not being able to afford The Source), repeatedly reading the fine print of my cassettes, I pieced together the personal feelings of rappers, noted which god they were down with, which MC’s they dissed, learned their mother’s names and who’s couch they slept on during production. Only getting a new album every few months at the most, there wasn’t much else to siphon knowledge from. Each crack and fold on this graphic comes from the bottom of my schoolbag, and is a testament to the tape.” Mark Drew

Cheap Timberland Shoes

Timberland shoes and boots are famous all over the world. They are really fashionable with teenagers, made fashionable by the “gangster” style portrayed in rap and hip-hop videos. They are also quite well-known because of their strong and enduring work boots varieties. They can carry you from the office to the woods in comfort and style. Check out the listings below.

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The Real Deal?

With a lot of phony stuff being sold these days, one of the concerns many people have is if the boots they choose to buy are the real deal or not. Albeit this is not a concern for too many people, a lot still only want to buy the authentic things and try to stay away from all the look-alikes. It is a great thing therefore that, Timbs (or timberland shoes) and boots are equipped with a Style number. Timberland shoes can be found online for quite cheap as compared to their prices in stores. Many times this happens because the supplier buys in bulk and selling cheap. Or it could also be that the person simply wants to sell the boots without regard of the selling price. Perhaps because the shoe size was too big, or maybe it was just not their style.

But on the other hand there are many Timberland Shoes varieties sold for a bargain price. But, a great deal is not always a great deal when after winning the auction you find that there it does not come with a style #. If you happen to purchase a timberland shoe without a Style number, chances are good that the thing is a bootleg. But if it comes with a style number, the item could still possibly be a fake. In a situation like this you can simply visit the Timberland website and email them to inquire about the Style number along with the description and color of the item. Their customer service division is splendid and they will undoubtedly check the style number with the shoe description.

Braiding Styles

A lot of African Americans will adapt to hair braiding styles because it usually look pretty good and has become a lot more fashionable recently. With all the different hair braiding styles, it won’t be that hard for you to find something that you would like for your hair. There are various different types of hair braiding styles that work better for different people. From the huge list of hair braiding styles, there would be styles like Goddess braids, African twist, micro braids, inverted braids, candy curls, corn rows, bantu knots, fishtail braids, flat twist, silky locks, interlock weaving, corkscrew, invisible braids, and kinky twist – even with the large amount of hair braiding styles on this list, it is not even taking a damper into the large amount of hair braiding styles that you can choose from.
Most hair braiding styles will look fashionable, sensible, elegant, professional, sophisticated, and sexy on almost all women but it’s usually your personality that best compliments your hair style. You could get a basic braiding style or you could get something more complex. It does take a lot of time, effort, and focus to actually braid your hair and not everyone is born to be able to so you might have to get someone else to do it and for some of the more complex and unique braids you will have to get a professional to do it.

Don’t judge a purse by its cover. No, that’s not a typo; we are talking about purses here…and book covers. It should be no surprise that the most well-read city in the nation is home to a designer who managed to turn books into handbags. Mary Lydia Ryan a Seattleite for the past 19 years has inventively created a brand new type of purse as well as a new form of functional art.
Mary was working a corporate job, one she was looking for a way out of, when a friend of hers bought a used bookstore. He asked if she thought she could do anything with the old books that had become too damaged, yellowed, and aged to keep. He jokingly suggested that she could make purses out of the books and the creative idea behind Mary Lydia Ryan purses was born. She began to take the books home, creating an inventory base that now overflows from underneath her bed into a full storage locker downtown. In late 2006, after creating the first models and finding that they needed some work, Mary partnered with fellow local artist Gary Parker to improve the designs. They added Kristen Bonnalie to the team as their seamstress and the trio began to produce a collection of purses, clutches, and billfolds. In the summer of 2007, the collection was officially launched and can now be purchased in several boutiques in the Seattle area. The interest in the bags stretches to Idaho and there have been talks of a carrier in Japan.It may come as a surprise that the purses were not necessarily designed to fulfill an interest in fashion. If you ask Mary about her original motives in starting the project she will admit that it was purely accidental and that it stemmed from her need to do something creative after simply punching the time-clock for too long. When I met with Mary at Café Luce in the U-District to discuss her work, I asked her how she would compare her purses to the logo-laden bank account-draining designer bags that have waiting lists years long. She responded, “Well, I’m not a designer. I create them for their artistic value. There’s a lot of work that goes into them, but I didn’t create the covers. It’s more of a recycling project and I think that people appreciate them for being usable pieces of art."

John Lewis announces first designer menswear collaboration

Left: Bono in the 'Mephisto' devil -suit designed by Joe Casely-Hayford ( right) Photo: REDFERNS
The John Lewis high street chain, and the designer, Joe Casely-Hayford, have signed the register for the store’s first first designer collaboration for men.
Casely-Hayford, famed for dressing cult bands such as U2, and creating bespoke wardrobes for The Clash and Take That, will design his first collection for John Lewis for spring/summer 2010.
The collection will be a “knowingly understated” range, featuring original, concept clothing.
This latest high street-designer marriage highlights the growth in the menswear business, and its growing importance to John Lewis. The latest figures, released today, (Friday October 16th), show menswear sales for the department store chain were up by 17% for the first week of October, compared with 2008.
Casely-Hayford, a Central St Martin’s graduate, who was awarded an OBE for services to the fashion industry, in 2007, has enjoyed widespread acclaim for his original yet wearable clothes since first making his mark on the industry in the late 1980s. His catwalk collections have been shown in London, Paris and Tokyo. His eye for the tailored-with-a-twist approach led to extensive design work for U2 and he designed many of the band’s stage outfits, accessories and jewellery, for the 1991-1993 world tours, ‘Achtung Baby’ and ‘Zooropa’. His bespoke designs for Bono include the gold leather Mephisto ‘devil’ suit and red glitter platform boots; ‘The Fly’ black patent zip-front jacket and black patent trousers; and ‘Cowboy’, the silver, glitter-ball tailored suit and Stetson.
Casely-Hayford also designed the military uniforms The Edge wore for Zooropa, and the rivetted jeans, featured on the cover of the ‘Achtung Baby’ album. His design work with The Clash, included stage costumes for the band’s Combat Rock period, circa 1984.
Peter Ruis, buying director at John Lewis, says: “I think we found the perfect fit with Joe. His capsule wardrobe represents the very best in authentic British design. Our first designer collaboration for men will combine the quality expected from our brand, with the flair synonymous with the Joe Casely-Hayford signature.”
“Joe Casely-Hayford for John Lewis will introduce my designs to a much broader audience,” said the designer. “ I am excited by this unique collaboration which will create a new design statement and celebrate the best of British in a modern context. ”