Lakai Ltd. Tees

The Wrench Pilot Comic and its hero, Lettus Bee, ran in Transworld Skateboarding Magazine from 1989-1991. Letttus Bee was the skateboarder's "everyman" and now Lakai Ltd. has created shirts inspired by the comic strip (pictured left). Other novel designs from the Lakai collection reinterpret traditional Mary Poppins iconography with a 21st century twist (pictured right).

IRAK

Abercrombie & Fitch, Ralph Lauren, J Crew, Banana Republic, etc. are selling a fabricated-fantasy lifestyle, but IRAK lives the life that they are selling. In 1997 Earsnot started IRAK, a tightly knit shoplifting graffiti crew with about 50 members. Today some of the members include many of downtown New York's art elite. Last December Earsnot launched a website where the crew, “expresses their 2 cents …

Swami Safari

Sydney-based t-shirt label Etc have based their new Swami range around the mystical imagery of ancient mythology. (Click image for detail.) Says designer Alex Singh, "the basic concept is exploring this Swami character we've created who's running around on his inner safari in the ether. During his safari he interacts and meets all kinds of gods, crazy creatures and fantastical people and places taken out …