$300,000 T-shirt does what it shows
The US Fund for UNICEF in collaboration with Threadless have created 12 “guy and girly” T-shirts illustrated by Christine & Justin Gignac to aid UNICEF’s Horn of Africa response. Each “Good Shirt” depicts a simple drawing that range in price from $18.75 (provides three insecticide-treated mosquito nets) to $300,000 which covers the cost of a charter flight to transport vital aid from the UNICEF supply warehouse in Copenhagen to Nairobi, Kenya. Two of the UNICEF-supporting tees, the aforementioned cargo plane and the 75K that promises to provide 100 metric tons of corn soy blend tee break the record for world’s most expensive t-shirt. According to The Rich Times, this tite […]
Buy a bomb, plant it in your garden and promote peace
The tastemakers at AHAlife, especially its founder Shauna Mei, like to think they are “driving conscious consumption.” The luxury leifestyle blog JustLuxe describes AHAlife “as a hybrid of Gilt Group and Ideal Bite” with a “unique social-media elements and marketing prescience” because all of the products are curated by influencers in the fashion, food, home and other categories, who make their selections because they believe in products, not because they’re being paid an assignment fee. And, now they want you to buy a bomb for peace — well, really spoon-shaped garden markers ($66) made from bombs dropped on Laos during the Vietnam conflict. The sale of these products benefits the […]