Much of what we do here is based around tees. In a way, a tee shirt is the lowest common denominator within this sub culture and why not. it is, in regards to clothing, most likely the cheapest wearable item to produce and it is a great canvas. before tees, sneakers and what not became status symbols for wannabe’s that’s precisely what they were, canvas’ for artists to express themselves, a cotton based extension of the wall we used to tag, or the pub’s bathroom wall. the first tee shirt i bought with my own money was that anything even remotely to do with this sub culture was a stüssy tee in texas, around 1993. prior to that I spent all my money on band tee’s I got through my local record store or through a mailorder. Unfortunately, in retrospect, i did not keep any of the tee’s I bought from 1990-1999, but gave them away or threw them away, but whatever, products only became status symbols once this sub culture became a mass phenomena and people needed status symbols to assert themselves, or buy themselves into something they were not. I have been really lucky though and despite the impression I might give off, I am exceptionally grateful for every tee I have in the last 8 years gotten from friends and brands. Most of which I have kept, and it was over the weekend that I sorted through the hundreds of tee’s and organized them. In a weird sort of way I like keeping my favourite tees as a personal historical record-below is a selection I made this morning of tee’s that I’ve rocked to death and kept over these years. Thanks to everyone that has hooked me up, really, I am still as stoked on them as I was then, enjoy.

this is one of the burton artist 13 tee’s i worked on last year.

One of the first Surrender tees, I think from 2004 or so.

this came out for stussy’s 25th anniversary back in 05

I have no idea when I got this, except it still fits.

so does this one!

this one doesn’t anymore.

I think Bobby gave this to me on his first trip to Berlin

Got this on my first trip to Tokyo.

Bahr over at Everything Must Go gave this to me last summer.

I think this was one of Jason’s first tee’s for Flying Coffin, he’s recently said that he got into loads of trouble with Danzig and Friedman, who took the photo, because of it…sheesh.

UXA LEX!!

I think every teenager had one of these right?

Gio sent this over a while ago and I still love this tee.

One of the few old ones I have left, I worked at Fabric in London 10 years ago and UNKLE had a regular night there and they did these tee’s for the night-I think I stole it then, I am not even sure anymore.

Answer are definitely one of my favourite tee shirt brands, here one from 2003, when they worked with the Bode estate.

ahhh…memories.

another Answer beauty.

Midnight Division, are these guys even around anymore? 03 or 04.

I think this is one of the first Zoltar tee’s ever, bought at their store in 2000 I think?

One of my best friends and a great designer, Matt Irving’s first or second season of Delphi Shirts.

Like I said, I like this brand, Answer.

supreme

this was one of four gimme 5 x untitled tee’s I did for the first untitled show in barcelona so, 2004/05, I am not sure. Mark Ward did this design.

one of my favourite invisible:man tee’s, andrew & akiko sent this over back in 04 I think.

another classic gimme 5 tee

I think Fergadelic did this for Answer, not sure though.

an earlish SSUR tee

Answer 2005 ?

Kind of a dead give away, but I still like this classic design, in a way, it’s my favourite supreme tee.

Todd over at In4mation has been extremely generous these past 4 years, this is one of many he sent all the way from Hawaii.

another supreme classic

Eric Elms gave this to me last summer when we hung out in his studio.

a very recent birthday present from my brother fats, congrats again dude. this is great.

ANX Originals from last year I think?

Kenta from BRKN HOME is another one of those dudes that I am very thankful to for all the tee’s he’s sent in the past. An old one but still great.

James aka SheOne gave this to me on our recent trip to Milan, love it. Smokers unite.

Jeff gave this to me for my birthday a few years back, this was one of his anniversary tee, it’s a little rocked out, but prove that I like it.

oh and I am listening to a lot of the below recently. what the hell happened to good music anyway?

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