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Urban Outfitters hit with lawsuit

Brittney McNamara — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:30:53 +0000

Hip fashion favorite Urban Outfitters has been sued by the parents of a 15-year-old model for allegedly using photos of the girl on t-shirts without permission.

The photos in question show the underage girl in a sexually suggestive pose on a motorcycle. The girl’s parents filed the $28 million lawsuit against both the clothing store and photographer Jason Lee Parry in Manhattan Federal Court under claims that the photos were taken without permission last year.

The photo shoot allegedly features the model “posed in a blatantly salacious manner with her legs spread without a bra, revealing portions of her breasts.” The lawsuit also claims that the girl is shown engaging in illegal activities such as drinking beer and riding a motorcycle without a helmet.

The last of the E3 swag

Blast Magazine Newsroom — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:34:22 +0000

Ok people listen up. E3 was a blast this year. We all know that. While the crowd was huge, and a lot larger than last year, we know that you were all sitting at home reading the stuff that the Blast Games team was firing up like so many chaingun rounds.

We’re cleaning up the Blast Newroom over the next few weeks, and right away we found a few things (like porn).

We have official E3 t-shirts for Wet, Rogue Warrior, and Red Steel 2. Do you want them?

Well we’re gonna make you work for’em.

You need to review something. A video game released in the past two months that we somehow haven’t reviewed yet. A rare peripheral. A brand new PC game would be great. Write us a 400-700 word review with a 1-10 rating. We’ll PUBLISH the best reviews in Blast and the best three reviews will win these rare pieces of cloth. First place gets choice, second, and so on. Reviews must be your own work and not be published anywhere else.

How do you do this? Register as a Blast user — it’s FREE and takes 30 seconds and post a comment on this story with your email address. We’ll be in touch.

Pre-Super Bowl craziness — t-shirts, orangutans, cars

John M. Guilfoil — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:12:46 +0000

The world looks to the Patriots and Giants as they do battle Sunday — will it be Michael Strahan or Junior Seau who takes home their first Super Bowl ring?

But while the focus is on sports and Mexican journalists proposing to Tom Brady, I decided to look at what some people below the radar are doing to prepare for football’s annual gluttony festival.

Here in Boston, RC SILK is waiting for the final gun to sound so they can flip the switch on either the Patriots or the Giants Super Bowl XLII championship “locker room” t-shirts. The Giants one is traditional, while the Pats shirt makes specific mention of the “Perfect Season — 19-0.”

Reps from Reebok, whose label will be on all the shirts, are standing by at RC’s 20,000 sq. ft. facility in South Boston to help get the shirts to dealers.

“RC Silk is proud to offer its full production capabilities to this event: three fully automated, pneumatic/servo, multi color industrial printing presses, feeding a gas powered, 800,000 btu, 72″ belt drier,” the company said in an email Friday. “RC SILK operates the largest production shop in Boston.”

Over in East Boston, Danilchuk Auto Body is no stranger to ripping apart cars and trucks, but these guys get creative with it!

Danilchuk has done their part to crush the Giants in Boston. Beingin Boston, this auto shop gets to do this almost every year — they made similar displays of the Red Sox against the Rockies in the World Series and the Patriots versus the Panthers a few years back.

Finally, my favorite, Amber, the Louisville Zoo’s 20-year-old orangutan made her pick known by sporting a Patriots t-shirt.

Zoo officials laid two shirts out for her — Giants and Pats — and she walked right up to the 18-0 team’s shirt and threw it on.

Amber is not only a sports fan, but she’s also quite the fashionista. Her t-shirt prediction was part of the zoo’s “animal enrichment program.”

“Animal enrichment is an important aspect of animal management at the Louisville Zoo,” said Animal Training Supervisor Jane Anne Franklin. “Amber and other animals at the Zoo are given regular enrichment that provides them with mental and physical stimulation.”

Playing with T-shirts and other items of clothing is one of Amber’s favorite activities.

“When she is given a shirt, she often likes to take it and rub it across her face and feel the texture before she puts it on. Oh, and she really likes handbags!” Franklin laughed. “If she had to choose between two handbags that might have been hard for her, because I bet she would have carried both of them around and not let them out of her sight.”

Let us be thankful that there are no Super Bowl locker room handbags.

Johnny sells shirts, not cupcakes

Gina Fraumeni — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:00:43 +0000

What started out as a joke among friends has turned into a million-dollar business for Johnny Earle, or “Johnny Cupcakes,” now a household name in Massachusetts. Earle began his T-shirt clothing line as a complete joke among friends at a Newbury Comics warehouse in Boston. Co-workers gave him a number of nicknames, one being Johnny Cupcakes. He decided to make light of it by mimicking pop culture items and replacing them with cupcakes on shirts he printed at his other job at a silk screen shop.

Earle wore them to shows his former band would perform and the shirts slowly became a hit. As popularity grew, Johnny printed more shirts with different designs poking fun at pop culture. One satirical design imitates the famous Air Jordan logo, with a slam-dunking chef and cupcake. Another popular print depicts a cupcake and crossbones.

Earle’s shop is located on Boston’s swanky shopping district, Newbury Street. In keeping with the bakery motif, the shirts are encased in bakery cases and fridges and employees wear aprons.

Cupcakes are sprouting up everywhere from music videos such as the Gym Class Heroes, to spots on You Need to Know me on MTV news.

Johnny Cupcakes intends to expand to new locations such as California, London possibly even Japan. Earle said he wants to expand from shirts to purses, sneakers, ties and jewelry.

One fan describes his clothing as “the kind of shirt strangers will talk to you about.” Another draw is originality. For each design, Earl prints only a few shirts, which immediately become “limited edition.”