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			<pubDate>Tue,19 Aug 2008 21:23:58 +0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.donedhardy.com/images/homepagenews/MadonnaMalawi.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><br/>Trucker Hats, Tattoos, and Madonna<br/><br/>Christian Audigier, the force behind the <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> and Von Dutch fashion lines, knows how to get his designs noticed and worn by superstars <br/><img src="http://images.businessweek.com/story/08/600/0618_ed_hardy_inline_1.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> designer Christian Audigier has helped mastermind two successful apparel lines: Von Dutch and, now, <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a><br/>Christian Audigier&#39;s office is a monument to pop culture. The 3,000-square-foot space in the Culver City section of Los Angeles contains two pinball machines, two motorcycles, and large statues of Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man. There is no desk o&#114; computer. When it&#39;s time to talk business, the 50-year-old clothing designer plops down on a sofa and fires up a Marlboro Light. Then he waits for the most eagerly anticipated news of the day—which celebrities have been wearing his clothes. &#34;This is Madonna today,&#34; Audigier says gleefully, as an assistant hands him a photograph from a celebrity Web site of the singer slipping into a car in a pair of Audigier&#39;s black Ed Hardy &#34;lounge pants&#34; with skulls on them.<br/>In style-crazy Los Angeles, Audigier has one of the hottest hands. Over the past six years he has helped build two brands into fashion phenomena: Von Dutch and now ed hardy collection. And both times he has done it with the same formula: Take a counterculture design figure and turn him into a clothing line coveted—and worn—by celebrities and cool young people. <br/>Artworks by icons such as Andy Warhol and Keith Haring have become huge licensing businesses, but they were world-famous artists first. Audigier has managed to take two defiantly left-field figures and make their work mainstream. &#34;He&#39;s riding that classic Americana tattooed biker look like nobody else,&#34; says Josh Levine, whose Rebel o&#114;ganization specializes in marketing upstart brands. <br/><br/>The Von Dutch Trucker Hat<br/>Audigier may have a keen eye for Americana, yet he grew up in France, wh&#101;re he says he was a huge fan of the leather jacket and jeans look of movie stars such as Marlon Brando and James Dean. After kicking around at various fashion labels including Diesel jeans, he landed a job in 2002 as chief designer at Von Dutch. <br/><br/>At the time, the business was a startup clothing line that had licensed the name of Kenneth Howard, a custom-car painter who died in 1992 and who worked under the name Von Dutch. Audigier took Von Dutch&#39;s signature, blew it up on the front of a mesh cap, and handed the caps out to a current generation of hot young stars including Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears. His $48 &#34;trucker hats&#34; became a fashion craze which Audigier denies is over. &#34;I still sell 1,000 hats a week,&#34; he says. &#34;It&#39;s become a wardrobe staple.&#34; <br/><br/>Audigier left Von Dutch in 2004 in a dispute (since settled) over money with the company&#39;s owner, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Tattoo T-Shirts and Sequined Hoodies<br/>Out on his own, Audigier searched for new ideas. Seeing the popularity of tattoos, he says he Googled the words &#34;famous tattoo artist.&#34; One of the names that popped up was Don Ed Hardy, a 63-year-old art school graduate who had gained a cult following drawing colorful tattoos featuring dragons, hearts, flowers, and skulls. Hardy has his work shown from time to time in galleries, and he owns a small publisher of tattoo-art books. But he mostly lived quietly in Hawaii and San Francisco, wh&#101;re he has operated a tattoo parlor, Tattoo City, since the 1970s. <br/><br/>Audigier licensed the artist&#39;s vintage designs, shortened his name to Ed Hardy on his <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> by Audigier, and cr&#101;ated another signature item, a $92 long-sleeved T-shirt decorated with Hardy&#39;s ink drawings. That&#39;s a lot of money for a piece of clothing that can cost just a few dollars to make, but Audigier seems to have judged the market well. He sold the clothes at boutiques such as Fred Segal in Los Angeles, wh&#101;re his success with the Von Dutch line opened doors. He has since landed much larger accounts such as Macy&#39;s (M) and has expanded the line to include items like $200 sequined hooded sweatshirts and jeans. <br/>With no prompting, Audigier escorts a visitor through his two-story warehouse plastered with photos of celebrities wearing his shirts, jeans, and hats—everyone from Paris Hilton to Larry King to some names Audigier can&#39;t quite remember. &#34;Mayor, Mayor…,&#34; he says. &#34;Bill Maher,&#34; an assistant reminds. There&#39;s a whole Madonna wall—70 candid shots of the pop star in his clothes, all taken by paparazzi on different days in the past year. &#34;It&#39;s very simple,&#34; Audigier says, explaining his celebrity-based marketing strategy. &#34;You send Britney a box. Minutes later.….&#34; He taps a photo of Spears. And it&#39;s not just the celebrities and their stylists who get free clothes. Audigier sends samples out to anyone who comes in contact with them— doormen, chauffeurs, even the paparazzi themselves. <br/>Million-Dollar Licensing Fees<br/>Perhaps realizing from his Von Dutch experience that hot fashion labels often have a short shelf life, Audigier has been re-licensing the Ed Hardy designs to manufacturers of everything from air fresheners to energy drinks. Sales for the privately held company topped $114 million last year, according to Audigier. That was nearly twice what he had o&#114;iginally forecast. He has opened more than a dozen stores in trendy neighborhoods from New York to Los Angeles. <br/><br/>For his part, Hardy, who now gets licensing fees likely in the millions of dollars, told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2006 that he initially had reservations about doing business with Audigier. This was after embarking on his own Google research and seeing photos of the flamboyant designer cavorting with celebrities at &#34;some secret location.&#34; Hardy told the paper that he called one of his associates and said: &#34;This guy is at ground zero of everything that&#39;s wrong with contemporary civilization. However, if he wants to make a lot of money with my art, and it&#39;s not going to be overtly negative, then what the hell.&#34; <br/><br/>After years of trying to promote tattooing as fine art, Hardy says he&#39;s happy his trade has entered the mainstream. art on <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a>,Through a separate relationship with another company, Ku Ambiance, Hardy has been creating high-end pieces of art, including Japanese vases, screens, and porcelain plates that features his designs and sell for thousands of dollars. But he finds the results of Audigier&#39;s work almost everywh&#101;re. &#34;I see young girls walking down the street wearing designs I tattooed on Marines 20 years ago,and something like <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a>,jeans,tees,cans,etc. Hardy says, clearly amazed by it all. <br/><br/>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ed hardy caps]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue,19 Aug 2008 05:44:25 +0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a>-caps collection by ed hardy<br/>Ed Hardy Black/Red Cap - Koi Fish Design<br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/20087125196542_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/200871251919428_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/200871252217429_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/200871252226626_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><br/>Ed Hardy Black Cap * New 2008 Ed Hardy Cap as displayed in images * Black color accented with hard to find o&#114;iginal &#34;Koi Fish&#34; tattoo design * Features Don Ed Hardy embroidered logo on visor * Gun metal Love Kills Slowly Skull logo button on top of cap * <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a>-Ed Hardy caps by Christian Audigler label and serial number on inside lining * One size fits all adjustable strap * 50/50 cotton embroidery &amp; polyester mesh backing for maximum comfort * Comes with Ed Hardy Skull Tag<br/><br/>NEW 2008 ED HARDY HAT CAP LOVE KILLS SLOWLY NWT<br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/20087123845251_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/20087123854661_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/200871121467435_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/2008711214558695_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/>Ed Hardy &#34;Love Kills Slowly&#34; design trucker hat. New with tags. The size is adjustable. New arrival for Summer 2008 Nice gift for your Girl/Boy Friend. Brand New Ed hardy Cap for sale with tags! These retail in the shops from anywh&#101;re from $75 to $100 online so potential for a great bargain here! For those of you that don&#39;t know <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> collection is the most fashionable brand around at the moment and is seen being worn by massive celebrities such as Britney Spears and P Diddy etc. As far as can make out the whole idea of his clothing is that the styles resemble tatoos which is why his designs are so off the wall wacky and cool! <br/>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Interview:Christian audigier]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon,18 Aug 2008 05:22:54 +0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> by Christian audigier,<br/>Don ed hardy and his <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> <br/><img src="http://www.americansuperstarmag.com/fashion/June07/audigieredhardy1.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/>Perhaps the greatest marketing genius in the world today, Christian Audigier first became famous when he turned Von Dutch into a household name. Through his pinstripe designs, Audigier made Von Dutch o&#114;iginals an international brand, most notably through his famous trucker hat, worn by celebrities and everyday people throughout the world. His ride with Von Dutch lasted a little over three years, before differences in opinion led him to leave the brand behind. <br/><br/>Seeking an exciting, new adventure, Audigier would find his next challenge thanks to the streets of Los Angeles. Taking notice of the flocks of people sporting tattoos around L.A., Audigier was struck with the idea of putting a &#34;tattoo&#34; on a T-shirt. He immediately began his research and repeatedly kept coming across the name Don Ed Hardy, while conducting Google searches and thumbing his way through countless books on tattoos. <br/><br/>Audigier placed a call to the man he refers to as the &#34;Godfather of Tattoo,&#34; and soon he was granted the exclusive rights to work with the designs of the famous tattoo artist. Much like he did with Von Dutch, Audigier turned Ed Hardy into a household in no time, becoming the king of the designer T-shirt, and once again seeing his famous trucker hat worn on the streets of L.A., New York, Miami and Paris. In just two years, Ed Hardy by Christian Audigier has established itself at the top of the designer vintage tattoo category, which it principally cr&#101;ated. Today, the <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a>, Ed Hardy line of T-shirts, hats, hoodies and much more is sold in high-end boutiques and high-end departments stores such as Nordstrom, Bloomingdale&#39;s and Macy&#39;s Herald Square. <br/><br/>In addition to Ed Hardy, as well as his own line, Audigier is also behind SMET, Born on the Street, a cutting-edge rock and roll collection resulting from a collaboration with his long-time friend Johnny Hallyday, the French rock and roll legend. Dubbed the French Elvis for his style and impact on the French cultural scene, Hallyday has amassed 18 platinum albums, 900 songs, 100 tours, 900 million compact discs sold and 17 million spectators at his concerts. The SMET line captures the essence and spirit of Hallyday&#39;s epic 40-year rock and roll career. <br/><br/>Audigier&#39;s brands — <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a>, Christian Audigier and SMET — are sold globally throughout a network of distributors in over 40 countries and in over 20 branded <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> and Christian Audigier licensed stores outside the United States. Revenues of Audigier&#39;s companies have grown from $10 million in 2005 to over $35 million in 2006 and are projected at over $80 million in 2007. <br/><br/>A native of Avignon, France, Audigier is no stranger to the fashion world. Raised in a single-parent household, he went to work in fashion in his early teens, helping to support his mom, brother and sister. He first developed a denim collection influenced by his passion for rock and roll (he idolized the Rolling Stones) and was soon discovered by a top executive with MacKeen Jeans, eventually traveling the world by the time he was 18. <br/><br/>Audigier later moved to New York, forming his own company and freelancing for some of the biggest names in the denim industry like Guess, American Outfitters, Fiorucci, Bisou Bisou, Naf Naf, Kookai, Liberto, XOXO, Lee and Levi&#39;s. He would also help revamp the Diesel brand at one point. <br/><br/>His relationships with celebrities have helped him achieve a stature never before seen in the fashion industry. Britney Spears, who was his very first celebrity client, is part of his who&#39;s-who list of celebs that includes Justin Timberlake, Jessica Alba, Paris Hilton, Ashton Kutchner and even the &#34;Material Girl&#34; herself, Madonna. Audigier makes no secret that he has achieved cult-like status thanks to owning the thickest black book of A-list talent in Hollywood. <br/><br/>As I enter Audigier&#39;s Los Angeles headquarters for our interview, I immediately notice his young, hip and attractive workforce in the building, most of which is sporting one of his trademark <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a>, Ed Hardy T-shirts. The sounds of French can be heard in the building as I wait for the 49-year-old Audigier to wrap up a meeting with his attorneys. We soon settle into his office, which is not-surprisingly stacked with rock and roll and celebrity memorabilia. His work space is more like a home, with a large dining table and a couch. There is no sight of an office desk, o&#114; even a phone for that matter. As I begin my interview with the eccentric French man known simply as &#34;Le Vif&#34; (the fast one), I soon see the humble and courteous qualities that have endured him to celebrities and everyday people alike. <br/><br/>ASM: Are Friday&#39;s always this hectic? <br/><br/>Audigier: It&#39;s always busy. There&#39;s always energy — and there&#39;s always new things going on. <br/><br/>ASM: It&#39;s hard not to notice everyone walking around in your trademark clothes.like <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a>, Christian Audigier and SMET .<br/><br/>Audigier: You&#39;ve got to market the product! <br/><br/>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ed hardy clothing for kids]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat,16 Aug 2008 05:05:52 +0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New collection on <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> for kids <br/><br/><a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> for little girls<br/>ed hardy long sleeve t-shirts,tees,t-shirts for girls<br/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/2008813212020165_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/2008813214244982_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><br/><a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> for boys<br/>ed hardy long sleeve t-shirts,tees,t-shirts for boys<br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/200881321475966_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/2008813211930592_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/2008813211649358_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/2008813214448707_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/2008813214649431_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><br/><br/>comments for our customer about <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> for kids<br/><br/>Shell from Norwalk, California <br/>My son loves it! The kids <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> was really nice, and my son loves it. The customer service was very helpful. At one point I o&#114;dered a different Ed Hardy t shirts but it didn&#39;t fit my son, it was too small. So I called in and the lady that took my o&#114;der was really nice and helpful. So I o&#114;dered t-shirts and by the next day and I received it. She also sent me the return label so it was easy for me. I wish I could have remembered her name but overall she was great.<br/><br/>from Melrose, Massachusetts <br/>Loved it, but... The only thing that I found was that the size ran small. I purposely o&#114;dered 2 sizes larger because it was (1)expensive and (2) a cool item so I want it to last a couple of seasons anyway; and unfortunately, it fits him perfect right now, so he&#39;ll probably outgrow it by fall. <br/><br/>for NY<br/>hi,my boy and girl loves it,and me too,thanks for that,and i&#39;m thinking i may o&#114;der some <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> for myself next time,thanks anyway.<br/><br/><br/>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri,15 Aug 2008 05:31:17 +0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> for men<br/>ed hardy mens board shorts<br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/20087215346279_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/20087215259636_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/20087215323907_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> for men<br/>mens board shorts,swimwear,shorts,etc.<br/><img src="http://images.hisroom.com/items/ed-hardy-ed001-edm001b-gv.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><br/>Ed Hardy Tiger Boardshort&nbsp;&nbsp;<br/><br/>Tiger Boardshort by Ed Hardy.<br/>. Authentic boardshort styling.<br/>. Rigid contour waistband with lace up detail for reinforcement.<br/>. No liner, but fabric is backed to prevent see-thru when wet.<br/>Velcro fly.<br/>. Small coin pocket with velcro flap on right front, just below waistband.<br/>. Randomly placed splatter print throughout garment that resembles splashed water.<br/>. Back pocket on right hip has velcro-tab closure and rubberized tab for easy opening.<br/>. Double back darts for a smooth fit.<br/>. Ed Hardy signature across entire back of short, and vertically on right leg.<br/>. Triple-stitch detail vertically on side of each seamless leg.<br/>. Serrated, surf-wax comb with built in bottle opener is attached to an elastic cord is stitched into, and conceals in, back pocket.<br/>. Removeable, floating key chain with &#34;Love Kills Slowly&#34; design.<br/>. Double-stitched waistband and leg openings.<br/><br/><br/>New collection on <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> for womens<br/>ed hardy womens scarves<br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/2008855849725_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/20088545611190_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/20088551457667_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://www.tradingsun.com/proimages/20088545421491_.jpg" border="0" alt=""/>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Don Ed Hardy&#39;s tattoos ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu,14 Aug 2008 05:39:17 +0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Forty years ago, Don Ed Hardy blew off a Yale fine-art fellowship to pursue the rogue art of tattoo, a timeless and often taboo tradition that captivated him as a boy in the o&#114;ange County beach town of Corona del Mar. By 10 he was drawing cars and eagles on kids&#39; backs and arms with wet colored pencils and Maybelline eyeliner. <br/><br/>At the San Francisco Art Institute in the early &#39;60s, Hardy mastered the demanding art of intaglio etching under the tutelage of the late Gordon Cook, a no-jive blue-collar guy who instilled in Hardy a love of craft, Asian art and the quiet power of Giorgio Morandi&#39;s little still life pictures. Cook wasn&#39;t pleased when his gifted protege jumped into the socially murky waters of tattoo. But it worked out well for the plucky Hardy boy, who blurred the supposed boundary between &#34;high&#39;&#39; and &#34;low&#39;&#39; art and carved a path through the worlds of art and commerce. He has drawn images on torsos, canvases and giant scrolls with equal conviction and aplomb. <br/><br/>A tattoo innovator and historian who expanded the palette and pictorial possibilities of custom-made body art, Hardy, who will talk about his far-ranging work at a free slide-show lecture at Mills College on Wednesday, is also a prolific lithographer, painter and etcher. His blazing images of devils, dragons, bearded ladies and Buddhas -- informed by old master etchings, 12th century Japanese &#34;hell&#39;&#39; scrolls and 19th century woodblock prints, Southern California hot-rod striping and the funk and humor of Bay Area art -- are widely exhibited and collected. And for the past year o&#114; so, his early tattoo images, the &#34;retro&#39;&#39; skulls, sailor girls and derby-topped dragons now in vogue, have appeared on <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a>,like&nbsp;&nbsp;T-shirts, jackets, motorcycles and even energy drinks sold worldwide under the Ed Hardy brand. <br/><br/>There are now Ed Hardy stores in New York, Los Angeles, Tucson and Dubai-<a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> stores, etc. That $20 million-a-year business, of which Hardy gets a small slice for licensing his name and art, is the handiwork of French-born marketing ace Christian Audigier, who pushed the Von Dutch brand and now has everybody from Madonna to Larry King draped in Hardy. It&#39;s a pleasing turn of events for an artist who made his bones tattooing daggered hearts and anchors on sailors in San Diego in the raffish old days before body art became respectable. Now it almost seems as if there&#39;s a Starbucks and a tattoo parlor on every corner. <br/><br/>&#34;Why do people get tattoos? I don&#39;t know. I think it&#39;s a completely primal urge,&#39;&#39; says Hardy, 61. He&#39;s lost track of how many he&#39;s had put on his body since he got his first tattoo, a rose on the left shoulder, at Frisco Bob&#39;s in Oakland four decades ago. &#34;It&#39;s one of those mysterious things. Based on the evidence, the frozen mummies, the oldest members of our species had tattoos. I think it predated cave painting.&#39;&#39; <br/><br/>An obsessive picturemaker since the age of 3, Hardy now divides his time between San Francisco, wh&#101;re his Tattoo City <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> shop in North Beach is going strong, and Honolulu, wh&#101;re he paints and makes prints. He also spends time in Japan, wh&#101;re his images are being hand-painted on factory-produced porcelain and paper goods and wh&#101;re he&#39;s going to cr&#101;ate a giant dragon -- king of the Asian mythical creatures -- on the ceiling of an old Buddhist temple in Kyoto. <br/><br/>&#34;I got it all goin&#39;,&#39;&#39; says Hardy, a modest, forthright and amusing man who in 1973 became the first Western tattooer to study under a traditional Japanese master, the prodigious Horihide, in Gifu City, wh&#101;re Hardy pierced and painted the skins of a number of the Japanese gangsters known as yakuza. Dressed in a green checked shirt, khakis and a pair of laceless mint-green sneakers bearing the Ed Hardy signature and his take on Tex Avery&#39;s 1940s slobbering wolf, Hardy recalled his colorful history the other day at Tattoo City. <br/><br/>&#34;Aesthetically, it looks good. I&#39;m not ashamed of the stuff,&#39;&#39; Hardy says. He o&#114;iginally partnered with the fashion firm KU USA. Audigier flipped when he saw Hardy&#39;s work and made a deal with KU to market it. Hardy knew nothing about Audigier until he looked him up on Google and read about a party he&#39;d hosted &#34;in some secret location with Puff Daddy and all these people.&#39;&#39; He called one of his partners and said, &#34;This guy is at ground zero of everything that&#39;s wrong with contemporary civilization. However, if he wants to make a lot of money with my art, and it&#39;s not going to be overtly negative, then what the hell.&#39;&#39; <br/><br/>The cash flow has given Hardy more time to spend with his wife, Francesca Passalacqua, and their boxer, Ruby, and focus on his painting. He does the occasional small souvenir tattoo -- they usually cost $500 to $1,000 -- but &#34;I don&#39;t have to tattoo much anymore,&#39;&#39; Hardy said. &#34;I put in my 40 years tattooing.&#39;&#39; <br/><br/>He helped transform the medium, creating elaborately designed and colored customized tattoos that often took weeks. He inspired young tattooers from Australia to Europe, many of whom came to San Francisco to get a Hardy in their skin. <br/><br/>&#34;He applied an arts mentality to tattooing,&#39;&#39; said Ron Nagle, the noted ceramic sculptor and Mills art department chair. Nagle taught at the Art Institute in the early &#39;60s when Hardy, ceramist Richard Shaw and other art-mad o&#114;ange County kids came north to study. They brought a Southern California sense of light and color to the iconoclastic Bay Area sensibility. Pete Voulkos, the wild-man sculptor from Montana, was at Berkeley, fomenting artists up and down the coast who looked West to the Pacific and Asia, not East to New York. <br/><br/>&#34;When you used to see tattoos, they were mostly black and blue, with a little red,&#39;&#39; says Nagle, who shares Hardy&#39;s passion for Morandi, craftsmanship and the merging of so-called high and low culture. &#34;Don brought more colors, gradations and an almost airbrush quality that didn&#39;t exist before.&#39;&#39; <br/><br/>Actually, &#34;Sailor Jerry was the first one that broke through with color, to research pigments,&#39;&#39; interjects Hardy, referring to the late Honolulu artist, known as the Cezanne of modern tattooing, who made epic Japanese-style tattoos with a bold American touch. &#34;Tattooing is not just aesthetics, it&#39;s also about what can be used safely in the skin. Sailor Jerry did all the research. Then myself and a couple of other people expanded on it. I thought, &#39;Why can&#39;t tattoos be polychromatic, like a painting o&#114; anything else?&#39; I thought it was a medium that was ready for expansion.&#39;&#39; <br/><br/>As a kid, Hardy sent away for tattoo supply catalogs advertised on the back of Popular Mechanics and was enchanted by Bert Grimm&#39;s gaudy tattoo parlor at Long Beach&#39;s Nu-Pike amusement park. He was also inspired by the tattoos he saw on men in wanted posters on post office walls. <br/><br/>Hardy found his metier a decade later at the Oakland tattoo shop of Phil Sparrow, a former Loyola English professor and friend of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Sparrow had bailed out of academia for the adventure and freedom of tattooing. He showed Hardy a book of full-body classical Japanese tattoos, and the young art student was never the same. <br/><br/>&#34;It was mind blowing,&#39;&#39; Hardy says. &#34;It was so much more advanced than Western tattoos. These tattoos were fitted to the whole body, epic things with mythological subjects. I thought, &#39;If tattoos can look like this, it would be a challenging medium to work in.&#39; <br/><br/>&#34;Phil was the first renegade intellectual I met. He loved the idea of being self-sufficient and the underground life and all that. He was a very interesting cat, an author who wrote all this gay porn that in those days was just published in Denmark. He was in the closet then.&#39;&#39; <br/><br/>&#34;The closet was pretty flimsy,&#39;&#39; Nagel adds with a laugh. <br/><br/>Handy pestered Sparrow to teach him the trade. Sparrow had learned it from a tattooer named Amund Dietzel, a Danish sailor who&#39;d been to Asia, worked in Chicago and set up shop in Milwaukee. &#34;The o&#114;al history of tattoos is fantastic,&#39;&#39; says Hardy, who has published many books and magazines on the subject. &#34;These old guys were like a bunch of pirates, and that&#39;s what attracted me to it.&#39;&#39; <br/><br/>Hardy did some tattoos at Sparrow&#39;s place. In the tradition, he did the first on himself -- a Victorian rose with a woman&#39;s face, on his left ankle -- to know how it feels on both ends when the needle goes in. <br/><br/>Conceptual and minimalist art were becoming the rage, and Hardy didn&#39;t go for either. He admired craft, which became a dirty word in the art world. &#34;I love the fact that tattooing is a craft, that there is a working-class aesthetic to it. I came out of a blue-collar thing, and so did my wife. The craft aspect is what I also liked about etching: There&#39;s a right way and a wrong way to do it. <br/><br/>&#39;Tattooing,&#39;&#39; he says, &#34;gave me a way to be free. Otherwise I was going to be an academic.&#39;&#39; <br/><br/>&#34;God forbid,&#39;&#39; says Nagle, a self-described &#34;academic by default.&#39;&#39; <br/><br/>In 1974, Hardy, whose 40-year-old son, Douglas, tattoos in Minneapolis, returned to San Francisco from Japan to open the first tattoo place focusing on one-of-a-kind commissions, a collaboration with the client. A surgeon got a giant squid whose tentacles curl around his shoulders, buns and legs. The tattoo stops above his elbows because the doc didn&#39;t want to jar colleagues when he rolled up his sleeves to scrub for surgery. <br/><br/>Before Hardy came along, people usually wandered into a shop and pointed to one of the &#34;flash&#39;&#39; drawings on the wall and within an hour o&#114; so would have it etched in their flesh. That&#39;s how Lyle Tuttle, the other famous San Francisco tattooer, worked (he retired a few years ago from the North Beach shop that bears his name). <br/><br/>Hardy got back into painting and printmaking seriously in the mid-&#39;80s after moving to Hawaii, wh&#101;re he also returned to the long-board surfing of his sunny youth. In 2000, the Year of the Dragon, he painted a marvelous 500-foot-long scroll featuring 2000 dragons of varying size, shape and character in a stylistically diverse work that summoned the 19th century Japanese master Hokusai and American action painter Franz Kline. <br/><br/>&#34;That freed me up,&#39;&#39; Hardy says, &#34;because most of my art had been either etching o&#114; tattooing -- extremely tight, finicky kind of stuff. I was always interested in a freer kind of painting.&#39;&#39; He advises young artists to free themselves from &#34;some careerist agenda, and do art that really means something to you personally.&#39;&#39; <br/>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[lately big support form <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a>&#39;s fans.<br/>here is the commet from fans.<br/>and fans&#39;s pics seen in <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a>.<br/><br/><img src="http://a719.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/70/m_9ea025249125648919949bb6a86bcd9e.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://a996.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/122/s_f0f797b96eba6634f7dbd98afc4b5aa3.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/>hey! here i am, love <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a>, just love your work, peace~&nbsp;&nbsp;-Tony<br/><br/><img src="http://a164.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/83/s_170f1703b8453c134bde6f11f51180cb.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/>hi,your <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> complete me &lt;3<br/>and my amazing birthday cake and ed hardy themed party ;]&nbsp;&nbsp;-jill<br/><br/><br/><img src="http://hotlink.myspacecdn.com/images01/77/fe6cf82d00cb8000af48cc3460c0a74a/m.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/>I luv ur <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a> line!!!!!!!!! Much luv!!! -jeff<br/><br/><img src="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff229/prepboy92/IMG_2599tyutyu.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff229/prepboy92/IMG_2576fvf.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/><img src="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff229/prepboy92/IMG_257233eqw.jpg" border="0" alt=""/><br/>I just got my first <a href="http://www.tradingsun.com/mens-name-brand-clothing/ed%20hardy/" target="_blank">ed hardy clothing</a>,Ed Hardy t shirt the other day and i love it cant wait to get some more :)&nbsp;&nbsp;-Nio<br/>]]></description>
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