500 Godz - Organic Streetart T-Shirts
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.
