19 November 2006

Stussy World Tour, saw the film last night at the NFT. Choice show, propage and general thugg-huggs to the 'Mostest Influential' A-Cyde for assignation of invitations. Highlights: Ghost in his gully as fuck apartment, does this man actually own a fridge. Kaws [Pic Bottom] lookin' like he's some random gravy chip eatin' sket-wetter from Feltham, until he opens his gubb. Brent Rollins. [Pic Top]That boy done put in some work. Big respect is automatic. Discovering that Futura was born in, erm, 1955?!?!?!?!?! Mr Cartoon, he's just a legend anyway. . . Here's the Press Release, ''Official like the finish time at a horse race, here to put it in place'': The fall of 1989 was remembered for the first release of the Stussy World Tour t-shirt. Shawn Stussy created what would become an enduring concept in graphic t-shirt designs. The idea and execution were simple: juxtapose two cultures from traditionally different worlds – a style device that had been used in art and music. On the front of the tee, names of cities associated with giants of high-end fashion and glamour are written in a stoic and formal Helvetica type. London, Paris, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo – these were the cities considered to be the style capitals of the contemporary world. The back of the shirt was printed with names of boroughs where our kind of street culture was actually thriving. Considered dark and underground, these untapped urban areas were about to shake up the world. Scrawled in a hand drawn manuscript, the back of the t-shirt clashed with the front in style, look and meaning. The graffiti was a shout-out to this band of outsiders - Brooklyn, Bronx, Compton, Santa Ana and Venice - that is reppin' a new vibe, direction and attitude. This year, Stussy has reinvented this classic and iconic t-Shirt with the World Tour Project. A group of over 40 artists were handpicked and invited to do their rendition of the World Tour T-shirt. They may be graphic designers, graffiti artists, clothing designers or comic book artists – but their unique hand writing style and artistic vision were specifically chosen to fit with our ethos and identity.

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