M.I.S.S. Vegas Review: “Designer” Street Wear
A lot of street wear tees are usually based around the idea of “playing” with a famous logo or piece of art. It’s not a new concept, people have been doing it forever. Everything from Tide (early Freshjive) to Warhol portraits (1/2 the brands out there) have been given a twist to further the message of small brands. The tees I saw in Vegas were no different - but I did feel like there was a giant increase in the number of tees touting very high end brands. This too is not new, but I felt that this time around there were so many more. Maybe it’s the economy crunch? Can’t afford real YSL but I can feel close to the brand by wearing a tee with it’s logo? Or, maybe it’s a t-shirt brands way of aligning itself with what it thinks is cool, for example, girls that like Chanel should like my brand. Whatever it is, there were a million (not quite, but almost) of these “designer” tees - I didn’t take pics of most of them but I’d be confident in saying that almost half of the clothing brands we looked at had some kind of designer reference - Chanel and Karl being the most used. We even saw a shoe that made a designer reference.
Oh, and by the way, word on the street is that Fucking Awesome is coming back and re-issuing the Karl Lagerfeld “Gangsta Situations” tee (Yay!) - you heard it here first. Check out more pics after the jump . . . .
Brian Lichtenberg for Blood Is The New Black - YSL
Brian Lichtenberg for Blood Is The New Black - Karl Lagerfeld on back & Gucci G’s on front & back
Brian Lichtenberg for Blood Is The New Black - Balenciaga shoes
Darkhorse - John Galliano (Dior), Alexander McQueen, Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel)
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Tags: alexander mcqueen, balenciaga, Blood is the New Black, bond no 9, Brian Lichtenberg, Chanel, Chanel No. 5, cream, darkhorse, dior, Fendi, Fucking Awesome, Gangsta Situations, Gucci, john galliano, karl lagerfeld, La Femme GNS, Louboutin, ysl
September 8th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
hi, where caN I BUY THESE TEES ?
September 9th, 2008 at 5:20 am
Hey Jimmy,
You’d have to get the tees where each brand sells their stuff - I’ve linked the brands you’ll have to check their websites for stockists. Please keep in mind some of these shirts won’t be out for a few months - most of them will come out for Spring 2009 so you’ll have to wait until next year.