Karmaloop's Look of The Week 10.30.09

What’s good, RubyHornet? We’re glad to be back with another Look of the Week for you cats, but unfortunately, we brought some total Creeps along with us.
 
Now, before we get down to it, it should be explained that Halloween is our absolute favorite day of the year and has been since we were big enough to run through each one of Boston’s neighborhoods collecting a cache of candy to hold us over until the following Easter. That trend continued through elementary school right up until we were “too big” to go trick or treating and rather lurked in the shadows and murked the youngin’s for their nightly stashes. After junior high, however, most of that debaucherous luster had been lost as we traded candy for cannabis, costumes for some cut-up and trick or treating for treating tricks to some booze jacked from the old folk’s liquor cabinet. Then came college… then the nine to five jobs… and now look at the old, bitter bums we have become.

Our dudes at Creep Street, fortunately, never grew out of that junior high phase and we love ‘em for it. Without that glorious special-ed frame of mind and fondness for all things tasteless and obscene, we would not have the Creeps’ brilliant tees in our lives, and, well… that would just make us too damned grown-up. Don’t get it twisted – tasteless and obscene will always make a few bucks now matter how it’s marketed, but with the graphic design wizardry produced by designer Boris Chang, Creep Street effortlessly turns a fart joke into a work of art.

It is not all without some risk, however. One of our all-time favorites and best sellers at the Karmaloop site, the notorious WTF Tee, featuring a living dead version of the World Wildlife Federation’s panda bear logo, recently caused a cease and desist order to be issued to the Creeps, Karmaloop and anywhere else caught hawking it. Take note: when a government entity threatens to sue your ass, they are totally NOT joking.

 
The WTF Tee aside, Creep Street has the craziest, most shocking and wonderfully vile tees in the streetwear market. Take The Blood Feast Tee, for instance, featuring a brilliant full-panel graphic that is at once the Misfits song of the same name as well as the namesake explicit gore-fest horror flick from the early-1960’s. The Creep Street signature twist – zombies, apparently, love them some titties. 

In honor of our favorite holiday, we brought Boris into Karmaloop headquarters this week with nothing but an idea, a machete, “fake” blood, some booty and three of our office goons to recreate a series of our favorite horror movie posters from the 1980’s. A series turned into three posters due to time constraints, and three posters turned into one due to leftover Pabst tall-boy sixers that someone left in the fridge. The result, however, came out nothing less than spect-ass-ular. Focusing on our favorite collective vision, a gender-reversal of the infamous VHS cover of The Slumber Party Massacre, the final product came out just as cheesy, bloody and oddly sexy as the film itself – just how we liked it.

Be sure to stay tuned for the next Creep Street drop at Karmaloop; in the meantime, check out the Creep Street site (our advice: watch the intro) and Boris’ blog for some crazy art, ill design and even more epic shit to help procrastinate the days away – again, watch the intro.  
 
Until next time, RubyHornet! Stay epic!

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