Spotted this T-shirt in Manchester. Available at this online shop.

The West End’s underground club, The End, celebrated the return of Layo and Bushwacka! this past weekend with an album launch party.

Missed all the action this time but I did catch their boat party in NY in the summer. I’m sure the dancefloor was thronged once again with tee-wearing hipsters like in the clip below. Love the Jesus Was Black tee.

In London, the kids are lovin’ the big slogan tees. In Italy, the Ciao Bella design, a remix of the Coca Cola logo, is what’s trendy among the ragazze, well at least for those who wear tees.

The Ciao Bella T-shirts were sold pretty much in every city that I saw with prices dipping as low as 6 euros a pop. This eBay merchant is the only one I found selling it online.

Photo credit: DirtyRagz

As I mentioned earlier this summer, the Katherine Hamnett / House of Holland inspired slogan tees are popping everywhere in London. Here’s another evidence from a shop on Clerkenwell St.

One of this year’s hottest music producers, Laidback Luke has released the killer track Down with the Mustard available exclusively at Beatport until the end of the week.

We will unveil the Down with the Mustard tee very soon, thanks to the kind folks at Unmanageable Artists. In the meantime, check out his site for more groovy, techy and downright catchy beats.

We’ve finally received a new batch of our “London” series T-shirts. Some of the tees might look a bit touristy but most, we hope, will appeal to locals. We’ll see later this month how the consuming public reacts to them.

We finally have model shots for the four T-shirts below. The other tees will be done at another shoot, as we get our new tees in the next few weeks. Yes it took us some time, but we hope clubbers and fans of house / electro will be delighted with what we have in store.

London high street retailers Next and Topshop are peddling Katherine Hamnett inspired slogan tees to the masses. They seem to be doing very well - I see them almost every time I go to Central London. Other large font slogan t-shirts I’ve seen are “Working Class Hero” and “Frankie says re-edit”.

ps: the above slogan is misleading. Any good that is produced bears a cost to the environment.

Spent Tuesday afternoon touring minimalist and concept shops in Paris. Here are a few that I checked out:

American Apparel
On my way to Pierre Herme, I noticed that AA, our T-shirt supplier, opened its first shop in rive gauche right off rue Bonaparte just south of Saint-Germain-des-Près. As always, the shop brims with colours and apparel made in the US of A.

BHV Homme
Although you can’t see it clearly in this pic, BHV’s flagship shop for men boasts a stock market board listing the prices of its best selling jeans.

GUS
Although it’s been around for about 7 years, this was my first trip to Gus, a cool concept store for men. Tucked behind the Grands Boulevards on the unassuming rue d’Uzes, the shop spans two floors selling books, clothes, accessories, electronics, and homeware. Gus was definitely the highlight of the tour.

Kulte
Stumbled onto this one just to see if the popular watering hole La Perle was busy as usual. I love it when a shop pays attention to details - the door handle is in a shape of a K. Note: the T-shirt on the left actually says “Don’t photograph me“. Sorry, I just couldn’t resist.

Surface To Air
Another easy shop to miss, considering that the S2A shop in the 3e has no window display and sports only a discreet sign on the door. They sell trainers, magazines, T-shirts, and jeans at prices for the hip and trendy Parisian.

Addresses
American Apparel: 7, rue Gozlin, 6e, M St-Germain-des-Pres, website
BHV Homme: 36, rue de la Verrerie, 4e, M Hotel-de-Ville, website
Gus: 7, rue d’Uzès, 2e, website
Kulte: 76, rue Vieille du Temple, 3e, website
Surface To Air: 68 rue Charlot, 3e, website