The fresh 2 def blog is all about ‘keeping it fresh 2 def’… If its fresh its here! From streetwear, to music, to unique and innovative household accessories we keep you up to speed.
The blog is written by the owners of a UK street label called F2D, fronted by FRESHBOY and JAZZA FRESH.
From the UK to the world we strive to keep you informed on whats going on in the world of street fashion and urban culture from people who actually live and breathe the lifestyle.
KEEP IT FRESH 2 DEF!
Ali Ve Originals (pronounced ah-lee-vay) uses unique graphics and original catchphrases to deliver messages. We are inspired by the balance of life and portray such through our creative outlets.
From the owner, S. Ali Myers:
The name Ali Ve can be flipped many ways. As someone who believes that Muhammad Ali was and is the greatest athlete of all time and a man of HIS own convictions (coincidentally my grandmother gave me his last name as my middle name!) I feel like that name represents “no protocol” and doing what you feel like is right and exact while being the greatest in your field. Add the letters, Ve, and it makes Alive and to me, doing what you want to do no matter what someone else thinks is being ALIVE. Also, Ali Ve has a lot of me in it – my beliefs and philosophies. But Ali Ve, in the literal sense, means being alive doing what you feel is best while also making a statement.
The vision for Ali Ve Originals is that the brand is respected by my peers, consumers and clientele. I feel like you don’t have to like something or someone but respect is earned and goes a long way in this life. A lot of people believe Money, Power and Respect will make you happy in this world. I believe Money and Power could not stand alone without Respect. There’s always going to be people in this world that love you when your on top or befriend you when you have a bunch of money – But without mutual respect no connection can be eternal. As long as the brand is genuinely respected, Ali Ve Originals will always be alive!
WE DO NOT:
-Follow protocols
-Follow followers
-Comply to Uniformity
Established 2008,originating from Birmingham city, the United Kingdom FRESH 2 DEF CLOTHING (F2D) is brand influenced by our city, surroundings, and music we listen to. Our culture and way of life is our brand translated into raw material.
All our designs are limited to only 300 peices, so when we say you’ll look fresh 2 def we mean it!
F2D is for those who wanna look fresh and original and for those who want street fashion with a catwalk edge.
KEEP IT REAL….
KEEP IT FRESH….
KEEP IT FRESH 2 DEF!!
F2D TEAM
F2D is owned and run by 3 ambitious guys from Birmingham city, UK. Each bringing something to the table to keep F2D fresh and innovative.
Our original f2d clothing logo was designed by PHOBIA, an artist/designer from Birmingham who we will be collaberating with on a regular basis each season.
We will also be working with artists/designers from around the UK and abroad in the future so keep your eyes clean for when we do.
Our team is united in our goal… To create a fashion brand that crossses genres and cultures bringing our generation together.
Streetshirts.co.uk is the brainchild of Steven Winn. The company was founded in 2006 and has quickly grown to become the UK’s leading custom t-shirt site with like for like sales growing by 288% in the last year. The company now employs 15 people at its base in Bradford and was recently shortlisted in inaugural Drapers Etail Awards in the Best Customer Experience category.
Streetshirts.co.uk has growth to become one of the web’s largest online t-shirt and t-shirt printing shops. Through continuing development of our software platform, we now have the most advanced and most flexible t-shirt design tool anywhere.
While most websites offer basic personalisation, Streetshirts offers full vector drawing, vector upload, and font upload as well as the normal text and image prints. Combine this with the fact that Streetshirts lets you design any garment you like with 60 colours of
shirt and 90 materials you really can go wild.
You can create your own ‘you’ fashion line to make garments that are on-trend but also unique to you. Streetshirts t-shirt designer is constantly updated with the latest on-trend assets. Traditional media including Loaded, Cosmopolitan, More, Mix Mag and many more have been going mad for the customised fashion concept.
Will sales growing by hundreds of percent each year, web user are fully behind the growth of Streetshirts. Streetshirts.co.uk is constantly evolving to keep customers inspired. The site incorporates elements of social networking and allows you to share your designs and rate others. There are also plans to develop mini shops for guest designers which
will allow them to launch and market their own virtual fashion collections online.
Streetshirts - you fashion.
Crooked Brook is a label used by the atelier division of our art studio. Our shop is a full-service apparel design, pattern making, sample making, and small lot production atelier.
We offer two types of custom hoodies:
1. Custom Hoodies - These are brand name pullover or zip front hoodies personalized with embroidery, appliqué, tackle twill or a combination of all three.
2. Custom Made Hoodies - These are hoodies created from an individual pattern according to a customer’s measurements, fabric and style specifications. With your input, we can design a custom hoodie for your crew, team, club, band, organization, fraternity, sorority
or school . Of course, this costs much more than option # 1.
Custom Made Hoodies can also be personalized with embroidery, appliqué, tackle twill or a combination of all three.
In addition, we can design a pair of sweatpants to match your hoodie to create a custom sweatsuit (aka tracksuit, jogging suit or warm-ups).
Please email, or call (315-733-1992) to discuss your ideas.
A79 is excited to announce our official brand launch. With an emphasis on simple and bold designs, A79 strives to become a mainstay in the wardrobe of the fashionably conscious.
A79…a derivative of the periodic symbol for gold-Au79, began as a small startup brand catering to the action sports crowd in Western Europe. A79 is now a collaboration of like-minded creativeʼs in the US and Japan, based out of Venice California. Our ethos is simple: good designs, good living.
“Design with simplicity. This is our philosophy…blend simple, clean graphics with organic, handdrawn shapes. Bright, striking colors juxtaposed with earth tones. Take a design and reduce it down to the concept and then build on it. A good design must be supported by a strong foundation.”
Beyond the special occasions and main events, there is an everyday part of life. We work, we play, and then we work some more. The use of the idea of gold-A79, is to reflect the value of this. A79 celebrates everyday living with a style, design, and quality that expresses a life lived well.
Announced a long time and ready at the end of october.
The first collection was delayed, because we have searched for the best quality for the collection and want to offer you a wide product portfolio with much love to details. From now on it will be just a few weeks to the release.
Everything will be strictly limited and if a product is sold out, it is SOLD OUT.
Until the lookbook is ready, you can get every week three teaser’s to get your first impressions of the upcoming collection.
The new site http://www.champate.net is online now.
On the site you will find in the “contact”-category many opportunities to get information about everything. You can find a group on Facebook and on StudiVZ (in german), a page on Myspace as well as on several blogs. You are signed the newsletter, so you get information about some “1of1”-products or “1of1”-variations first and you have the chance to buy them directly.
As a special highlight we have a presale for all who have signed the newsletter and the groups on Facebook and StudiVZ, that means you get the opportunity to buy everything of the first collection two days earlier before the shop will be open to the public. It is really a great chance, against the background that everything is strictly limited. So take your chance to be the first. We hope you like everything and all feedbacks are welcome.
A4 Apparel supplies branded and customised clothing throughout the UK and worldwide including many streetwear brands such as Santa Cruz skatewear and Saltrock Surfwear.
The capability to produce both small and large runs means that A4 can produce any type of clothing for any designer at competitive prices. All clothing is printed or embroidered in the state of the art facilities in the UK ensuring the highest quality product. A4 believes that quality is paramount for any clothing designer, reputation is the key and it is easy to destroy a reputation through a low quality product which is why we always insist on using the highest quality garments and processes in our manufacturing.
Misery Loves Co. is a collaborative venture between two Toronto based graphic designers that features streetwear collections from Obey Giant and Lifetime Collective.
Inspired by a love for design and fashion, this independent online clothing store is driven by the desire to seek, and share clothes that exhibit a wickedly distinct and exciting variety of streetwear designs.
Stocking both male and female accessories, graphic tees, hoodies and woven knits, Misery Loves Co. is about self expression and feeling good in your threads.
You know that you’re pressing all the right fashion buttons when your label’s first collection immediately sells out and a second is stocked by established New Zealand designer WORLD.
Such is the case for new Kiwi clothing label Crowded Elevator, who despite being only a years old is a huge hit in the land of the long white cloud and about to break into the Australian market.
Such rapid growth shows that we are filling a gap in the market for high quality locally-made product with international flair, says Company Director Carl Thompson.
Launched in June 2007, the label’s sold out inaugural summer collection featured 11 eclectic internationally styled tees for men with catchy slogans in retro fonts and kitsch animal graphics in neon bright colours.
We did a lot of research internationally and focussed on emerging trends from Sydney, New York and London to come up with a range of cutting edge nu-rave streetwear, says Thompson.
A lot of people do prints on tees, but I like to think Crowded Elevator clothing is more than just printed tees it¹s artwork that is designed to be worn.
November 2007 saw the release of the limited edition Creative Collection Vol1, Kiwi-influenced prints designed by some of New Zealand’s hottest artists and sold through the country’s leading fashion stores.
The Creative Collection allowed us to showcase some of the country¹s hidden talent, says Thompson. We can’t wait to make it an annual event, and that’s likely with the invaluable support WORLD provided right from the start.
For winter 08 the label expanded into hoodies and a selection of women’s tees - but with the rate the label is growing, dedicated followers of fashion should get on this ride at the ground floor.
The Berlin based organic T-Shirt Label 500GODZ was established in the summer of 2007. Since April 2008 the strictly limited and completely sustainable, sweatshop free T-Shirt collections are distributed worldwide.
For the first collection the label got the British Street Artist AME72 on board. Other Street Art figures and Illustrators will follow with their collections.
500GODZ are pursuing a philosophy that balances a provocative and social crititical superstructure with most stringently practiced ecological awareness.
All 500GODZ T’s are made and organically dyed in Turkey out of 100% certified organically grown cotton and are printed in the UK by taking advantage of a chemical free printing technique.
In addition the cotton quality used in 500GODZ T’s is certified by the Soil Association, which is the UK’s leading organic organization and also by GOTS the Global Organic Textile Standard. All 500GODZ manufacturers are members in the Fear Wear Foundation. This Dutch based foundation aims to promote humane labour conditions in the garment industry.
This way 500GODZ are able combine both provocative social critical Street Art and environmental awareness hitting the nerve of an urban scene that is ready to make a change. Social Awareness is here not just another half hearted marketing attempt but the labels philosophy and is backed up by every possible certificate.
Moreover each t-shirt design is limited to a maximum number of 500 Shirts (usually 300 – 400), a handwritten serial number is written on the label tag of each shirt and the sales can be traced via an online map which shows to which country a design has been sold making every design a unique piece of art.
The popularity of streetwear has spread across the world. People everywhere who want unique products have found streetwear as a way to standout from the crowd. Our goal at As Seen Fit is to make streetwear available to those people.
During the initial stages of As Seen Fit, we imagined a site where people could accurately see the style and quality of our brands’ attention to detail. We hope to provide the best fits and service possible, while supporting the hardworking underground brands who are the pioneers of style and fashion. We hope our customers are able to see themselves in these fits.
The founders of As Seen Fit are two college students, both with a love for streetwear. Our initial quantities are limited, but we will constantly be adding more brands and even more hot gear. Quality customer service is our commitment to you. So please, send any questions, comments, wanted brands to info@asseenfit.com.
Created in December 2006, Descolex brings notes, reports, articles and videos about fashion and its influence on Brazilian urban culture. The Blog also, talks about music, street art, fine art, graffiti, sneaker culture, toys, film, photography, design, books, and magazines. We cover things that amaze us, from big (traditional) Brazilian brands to obscure and new labels.
Due to its informal and pleasant texts, Descolex achieved in only a few months time – and without any PR efforts – the impressive mark of one thousand accesses per day. Because of this success, it became a reference for Brazilian and international streetwear fans, with an exponentially growing audience. The site was also invited, in January 2007, to be a part of the first official blog coverage of São Paulo Fashion Week, the largest and most important fashion event in Latin America.
This project rendered the blog various citations in specialized news vehicles. At the end of 2007, Descolex was nominated for the “best national fashion blog” prize, granted by Chic, one of the foremost Brazilian fashion websites. The blog is witten in São Paulo by Glauco Sabino, fashion producer and journalist, who started his career when 16 years old. His portfolio contains works for Vogue Magazine, Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, and as well as other media vehicles.
In 2007 Alias Society was was created in my California Barbershop.Day in and day out I found that many people were riddled with nonsensical styles, the same tired out crap.
So I joined forces with 3 customers of mine The Graff Writer, The Graphic designer, and The Color king thus ART.LIFE.IMAGE.AND.STYLE=ALIAS.
We are a limited tee and sweater company with both men and womens lines ,we are like no other, all designs,printing, and distributing are all done within our crew.
Our mission is simple to keep real art and streetwear alive 100% creative at all costs,never selling out to the mainstream. Alias Society tees and sweaters come with a matching bandana and shipped in its own test tube to lock in freshness, Alias Society is here to stay we are every where (What’s your Alias)?
Jiberish has stayed exclusive to the principal of building an organic entity. What gives our solid foundation is that our deepest roots reach out to our athletes and artists. We give our trust and our confidence to their visions.
As we grow so do our retail relationships which include both boutiques and online distributors who value the same aesthetic ideals and creative outlook that we do. We represent no specific group, cater to no limited demographic, disregard all association with any pompous factions and bring high quality clothing to anyone who shows interest in capitalizing on the day to day opportunity wearing art in place, of what would otherwise be, insipid garb.
Three years in development, patter creation, marking, and trimming has allowed a cut and sew fit that matches our ideas about how comfortable and functional fabric wares should be constructed. We fuse the fruitful offerings of our production staff with the hard work of a constantly evolving network of graphic designers to produce a piece of wearable artwork that will not only deflect the elements but inspire retinal stimulation for countless fortunate rural, suburban, and urban passerbys.