SoleGallery.com is an online collection of elements in the streetwear culture, with the main philosophy that sneakers (and t-shirts) are art.

Each designed under some influence and inspiration of the world around the artist. Everything has a story. Sometimes it’s the artist’s story, while other times the individual who wears, collect or showcase the goods.

SoleGallery.com is an online art gallery displaying exhibits of work. Some products and lines will come and go (like limited shows), while others will be permanent installations of the virtual gallery halls.

Sole Gallery’s curator promises to seek out products and stories that are the right fit for this experience.

Blake Hamster is a collaborative effort by a loose network of designers, artists, marketeers, journalists, authors and musicians from all over the world. It is their aim to experiment with different products, production processes and distribution models while upholding a set of aesthetic and ethic ground rules.

A Blake Hamster release may take on many forms. This time it is a range of shirts, next time it could be anything, from sweaters to a collection of household wares with a stylish twist, to a magazine or an art-show.

Each and every release will be unique in its design, limited in its circulation, of high quality and as ecologically and socially conscious as possible.

Tru Youth is a clothing lifestyle company that aims to communicate the
“tru” purpose of life. Youth isn’t based on your age; it’s how you
live your life. They are endlessly promoting passion and creativity to
everyone. It doesnt matter who you are, or where you came from, its
about your life now and where you’re going.

Inspired by individuals who stay youthful by living their dreams, Tru
Youth uses t- shirts to channel their message to the world.

Tru Youth started with the ideas of both Jon Herrera, a
DJ/ Club Owner, and his sister Rosario Herrera, a fashion stylist/
creative consultant. They combine their knowledge on style, music,
art, and culture to create the dopest designs and inspirational
messages.

Shoboshobo is a graphic design / music / installation / fashion studio based in Paris / France. Many people collaborate with us, but the core is composed of Mehdi Hercberg and Khanh-linh La.

Shoboshobo started in 2000 first as a japanese experimental music gig organization in Paris and then turned into mor graphic / fashion concern something like 3 years later.

We do especially design for teeshirts and jumper, mostly unique items or very limited series. For the jumper design we are working with Andrea Crews fashion studio which provides us the material (production).
All our productions are available on our website.

It’s the online store for the Toronto area Screenprinting studio, Popfuel. At the moment it consists of designs by Jeremy Wilson, the person who runs the studio, but it’s hoped that a few members come online in the new year.

The shirts vary in style from your basic indie estetic, to more hot rod styles, and are available in both men’s and women’s styles.

Not the prettiest site online but functional, with prices in Canadian dollars.

Monstar clothing has really cool designs there are urban and artsy but hip and upbeat. Very cool use of bright colors.

They have cool characters and they just aren’t one of those clothing companies that use there name in different fonts and call it a design. They actually do art.

Benny Gold is a San Francisco based designer and fine artist. He is best known for creating the original identity of Huf – San Francisco’s premiere sneaker and clothing boutique.

Benny started design in college and has been working professionally ever since. Everything you see on his blog is something he created. His blog is not a hype site.

He doesn’t post about the newest sneaker or t-shirt unless he designed it. He also throws some of his skateboarding and bicycle adventures in there. Check it out.

‘All the Cream, None of the Crop’
From Nylon Guys magazine:

“We don’t review things we haven’t seen, bought, or used, and we don’t hype things that we don’t love. We keep it honest and that’s why our readers trust us,” explains Garrett Shane Bryant, founder of CrownDozen.com.

Bryant and his team of writers - most of whom are friends from his rural Kentucky home - have generated a content-rich site, hellbent on discovering the newest and next in art and culture. CrownDozen.com features interviews with comic-makers, artists, and illustrators - among them husband-and-wife illustration team Kozyndan and illustrator/painter Jeff Soto - and offers product reviews, event updates, and “Twelves,” the site’s amusing cache of Top 12 lists.

“Not everyone can or will buy $400 trainers,” says Bryant. “We’re just normal folk into cool shit and we like to tell you about it.” True dat.

–Julie Gerstein for Nylon Magazine

If you’re looking for great clothing, look no further than the fashion capital of the world, Paris, France. And if you’re looking for great t-shirts from this side of Europe, Dadawan is the brand to remember.

Dadawan is a Paris-based brand that was founded by four friends: David, Christophe, Herve and Paul. Its creation took half a year of brainstorming, exchanges of drafts and proposals among the four founders until it was finally created on March 2004, with David at the helm.

The brand sells a variety of products and is available to customers worldwide. From t-shirts, to trucker caps, to sneakers and stickers, Dadawan has tons load of them.

Although they have a store in Paris, that doesn’t mean that people from other countries won’t be able to avail of their products. They can do so through their online shop. The great thing about the shop is that they can choose from several modes of payment: by credit card, bank transfer and of course, PayPal. Having several payment options always means a good thing for online shoppers.

In addition to the varied modes of payment, another great thing about Dadawan’s online shop is that worldwide deliveries only take as quick as 3 days to a reasonable 2 weeks, depending on the destination. However, if a customer doesn’t like what he/she received, he/she can always ask for a replacement or a reimbursement. Talk about quality service!

Dadawan also has a t-shirt design contest wherein designers submit their works to the site and visitors can then vote which design they like best. The winning entry gets printed and the winning designer gets $170 for the first series of 50 pieces and $60 for each succeeding set, according to their website. Learn more everything about Dadawan by visiting their website at www.dadawan.com.

our motivation to launch born-clothing 2003 in cologne/germany was
after an odyssee for getting quality-shirts with fresh prints and fair
prices.

so we just decided to do those artworks by ourselves … after this decision there was a great resonance by our brotherhood/friends which is now extended to shops and design-agencies. there are also collabos with pixelkrieger from cologne and the first international collabo with retreat-brand from england. we are also start the band-support for the rockers of “nineteen reasons” from nuernberg/germany.

the question is what it’s all about? it’s about independence, personality and freedom expressed by the different styles in our collection. our style manifests itself in the expressions of personality. at the moment we are working on our online-shop. so if you like to order get in touch with us via email …

are there any plans for the future?
makin’ money! no, without kiddin’: satisfied faces on both sides and
hopefully further more great design-collabos with interesting people.