Fashion & Style
Ashley Rowe splatter tees hit Ossington
The city's hippest flocked to Oz Studios on Ossington last week for the launch of one of the messiest--and coolest--tee-sets in recent memory, Ashley Rowe's Splatter Tee collection.
Designer Ashley Rowe's Pollock-ed pieces were on offer against a backdrop of a "splatter wall" be-splatted by local artist Thrush Holmes, a fashion film from Arkan Zakharov, and one wall covered in high-fashion frames from the latest Ashley Rowe lookbook.
Pssst: fashionistas can snap up the paint-spattered tops online to tide 'em over in the months before Rowe launches her full Fall/Winter 2010 collection in July.
Photos by Jonathan Loek.
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What a bunch of pretentious crap.
Surely this be parody?
I think they are very original.
She is clearly very talented.
It is not easy to splatter paint on a T shirt to make a beautiful pattern like these.
I think lots of people will buy them.
I do not think the first comment is very nice.
BlogTO should delete it.
I do not understand the third comment.
Does ruus think this article is a joke or something?
Yes...she must have practiced for whole minutes to develop this expertise.
I'm really trying to hold back, I don't want to be mean, but all I can think is, your shoes must fasten with Velcro.
Please, if you like these T's, and think it's reasonable to pay $95 don't hesitate. Buy it and wear it as often as hygienically possible. That way the rest of us will know who to avoid talking to when partying on Ossington.
this whole situation proves that hipster fashion PR is officially the new low in Toronto
I wonder what Vice thinks of all hipsterpreneurship?
The T shirts are beautiful and we're going to see them everywhere downtown this summer.
that event looks so tired and the shirts are really really boring for the price. If this is all the designer is doing the label should be re named yawn.
These T's suck.
Its not hard to find something negative to say about pretty much anything. I don't think its necessary to hide behind your internet anonymity and insult people who are pursuing their passions.
it's very easy to be down on everything, guys...and yes, i have also jumped on the "anti-hipster" bandwagon in the past. but seriously - the shirts are pretty cool. overpriced, but pretty cool. i'm quite sure each of you has bought something a bit ridiculous for $95 in the past.
stay cool. enjoy the city you live in. deal?
If this post were about a 4-year-old designing these shirts, the response it would elicit would be, "Awesome that a kid this young is creative, but you can tell that he's 4".
I think a lot of people are sick of the "art is art" mantra. There's such thing as bad art and this simply isn't very good.
SO FYI! $96 is a fucking bargain because my cum is fucking priceless. you guys just don't know fashion!
it's like, sickening.
Leave it to the philistine BlogTO commenters to completely fail to understand one of the few exciting, innovative designers that hasn't yet been driven from the city. These pieces are a puissant exploration of the themes of difference and BwO (bodies-without-organs) developed in the work of Deleuze & Guattari -- but don't expect the illiterate, uncultured boors commenting here to pick up on any of those nuances. Obviously that level of engagement with art would be just too much to ask of the typical stewing-in-ressentiment, middle-brow Torontonians. Vive la mediocrite!
Maybe we should all just read Harry Potter and blog about how great Crocs and Ugg boots are. Would that make you people happy?
I know I'm just one of the many "illiterate, uncultured boors" commenting here (and I sincerely apologize in advance of even casting your eyes upon my lowly words does anything untoward to your transcendent intellect), but there isn't any "nuance" in a $100 t-shirt that looks like somebody went at it with a bottle of Nestle Quik.
But, Helen, to each her own...go ahead and deck yourself out in a "puissant exploration", but a helpful hint:
If you choose to lower yourself and walk through the streets full of "middle-brow Torontonians" in said garb, one the plebes might approach you and hand you a fiver and tell you to get a warm meal. Don't worry, he means well. Just hand it back and tell him that you don't need it, because your smugness keeps you warm.
PS. "Ressentiment". Awesome use of French. Here's another good French word: :"Poseur"
Best regards.
$100 says the shirts, the black paint, and the squeeze bottle used to 'make' these shirts are all 100% NOT made in Canada.
This brilliant idea - though rehashed from 1992 - is very Torontonian.
You can be smart and not want to pay (or afford) 100 bucks for an uninteresting t-shirt. In fact, I don't know how you could be intelligent and not be at least a little critical of this kind of shit.
BlogTO can we get "Agree" & "Disagree" buttons to rate each comment like some other sites (ie. CBC News) Id be curious to see what all the readers who don't comment think.
We have a winner. I actually made up the "Helen Winthrop-Brougham" character.