You have all seen the shirts, the jeans, and the accessories all around you. In clubs, at the office, in schools, and all the fashionable districts, where you never used to see much rock and roll wear like bandanas and print-alone tees, let alone as properly fashionable wear. And you know the brand is white hot, when you can also see all the copies and knock-offs proliferating, too! French designer Christian Audigier, of Lee Jeans and Von Dutch hats and apparel fame, started in 04, licensing the Ed Hardy designs and life work on ink. Audigier obviously saw the rise of body ink as high fashion, |
Ed Hardy then studied tattooing under Sailor Jerry Collins and in Japan with tattoo master Horihide. After which he became a permanent fixture in the San Francisco tattooing scene when he opened his famous Tattoo City tattoo parlor. Hardy originally started producing clothing based around his tattooing designs in 2002. However, it took a pairing with the famed Christian Audigier in 2004 to make the brand famous and fashionable. Christian is one of the most respected icons in the fashion world and single-handedly put the Von Dutch label on the map when he created the explosive trend for trucke |