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Hardy Ed with Selvin
Joel Wear Your Dreams
Thomas Dunne Books
St. Martin's Press New York

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In 1945, Ed Hardy was born. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After his father departed to marry a new woman in Japan, he was left a single child and lived with his mother. His father served in the American government. He abandoned him and his mother when he returned in order to start over in Japan with a new woman he met, and they soon got married.

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Ed Hardy got into tattooing or even saw tattoos for the first time on a man who was friends with his dad. A Navy man who had tatoos When Ed Hardy was younger, around 1956–1957, he had a best friend named Len Johnes, and they hung out a lot. So one day, when they found supplies like "(the sheets of designs that could be turned into tattoos, When we found Mongolian colored pencils, you could dip them into water and turn them into water color." (Page 12 #1 quote) They went around tattooing the kids in their neighborhood. They weren't permanent, so the other kids enjoyed their temporary tattoos.

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After Ed Hardy started to get more and more into tattooing and had done some tattoos himself, he opened his own tattoo shop in San Francisco in 1977. "We opened Tattoo City in high style in September 1977." (Page 167, #2 Quote) It was the first ever tattoo shop that opened in the area where he opened his shop, at 2906 Mission Street. It was the place where his life had started.

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One of the first ever tattoos that Ed Hardy drew was "The big snarling tiger with the crazy green eyes I first painted in 1968, when I was just starting out doing tattoos in Vancouver." (page 1 #3 Quote) Ed Hardy not only performed tattoo drawings, but he also had a bunch himself. The first tattoo he ever got, when he was 15, was a rose design on his ankle.

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One of the most popular tattoos that Ed Hardy had performed on someone was, "The "Love Kills Slowly" heart and skull design, something I drew in 1971 at my shop in San Diego, is the most popular." (page 1 #4 Quote)

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In 2003, two men approached his shop. Those two men ran Ku USA. an Asian-influenced casual wear brand. When they saw his tattoo design, they got the idea to use his tattoos on their clothing. So they became the first to put Ed Hardy's image on clothing. What they did was use their T-shirts to put his designs on. Started from there, and now he has clothing brands all over the world that use his designs in their clothing, like "T-shirts, hats, and running shoes." (page 1 #5 quote) His clothing brand, like his T-shirts, became very popular with "Punk Rockers and other subcultures."

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When Ed Hardy started growing his business, he got his own business card. In 1975, he lunched his business card with his name on it. It also listed his studio location as "2535 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 5  San Francisco, CA 94109."

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Ed Hardy first started doing clothing lines with T-shirts. He put his design on the T-shirts to promote his art. After his T-shirts blew up, he started doing other clothing lines like hoodies, shoes, and hats. His designs were mostly popular among the Ponck Rock people. His denim suits his style the best. "First Ed Hardy shirt, 1958." (pictures after page 54)

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Ed Hardy had different tattoo styles. One big one that was known very well was his Japanese tattoo designs. In 1967, when he left to go to Bert Grimmin's on Pike, he saw the Japanese style of tattooing up close. "doind the most fantastic work I had ever seen. His name was Hong Kong Tom Yeomans. At this point my return to the Pike, the only tattooer I had watched up close was Phil Sparrow..." (Page 53, #6 quote) After this point, he started designing Japanese tattoos.

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Hong Kong Tom Told Ed Hardy, "Hong Kong told me about Zeke Owen, who used to have the lead chair at Bert Grimm's... you have to meet Zeke." (page 63 #7 quote) Ed Hardy met Zele Owen when he went to Seattle Washigton. Zeke Owen was a good and famous tattoor. When Ed Hardy met him he said that they get along very good. He said that they clicked instantly. After that they became really good friends.

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Ed Hadry knew Sailor Town Jerry. They hadd met in 1970. Worked with him. Sailor Jerry hated modern tattooers. "He was suspicious, almost paranoid, of classic tattooists." (pg. 87, #8 quote) Jerry was a big dude, and he wanted Ed Hardy to destroy the SS Lyle Tuttle after he settled in San Francisco. "He may have seen me as a personal torpedo so he could sink the SS Lyde Turtle..." (Page 87, #9 quote)—which Ed Hardy refused to do so.

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When Ed Hardy went to San Diego in 1971, he opened a tattoo shop there too. Even though he already had a tattoo shop in Vancouver, he still thought he needed some training from experienced professionals, so he opened the shop, called Ichiban Tattoo. "I opened my own shop, Ichiban Tattoo." (pg. 99 #9)

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Ed Hardy served for United States in Navy as a medical corpsman during the Vietnam war. Before he got to tattooing. After he moved to San Diago he started all his work.

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Through out Ed Hardys life he struggles from drinking and drugs. "It was about time I stopped drinking. Phil sparrow was the first suggest I might have a problem with alchohol. after showing up one too many mornings hungover at his shop. He cheerfully edmited he had the same problem..." (page 187 #10 quote) His wife threaten him on leaving him if he didn't get help. "You can't seem to quit this on your own, eother you get help or Im leaving you." She said." (pg. 187 #11 quote)

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Ed Hardy | The official website of the Ed Hardy brand.

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Ed Hardy | The official website of the Ed Hardy brand.

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He got married to His wife Francesca Passalacqua in 1982. He and his wife publishhed 25 books on alternitabe art and his career of tattooing.

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Since Ed Hardy was a kid he kep journal and infromarin about tattoos. Not just how they were drawn or by who. He took notes of their meanings. He wrote a book about it called Tattootime. It was about how tattoos and tattooing became more and more popular in the 20th centry. The book itself got published originally in January 31 2013.

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Ed hardy had met this guy named Dr. Fukushi. Fukushi Masaichi was a Japanese physician, pathologist and Emeritus Professor of Nippon Medical School in Tokyo. He was the founder or nite of the world's only known collection of tattoos taken from the dead. When Ed haedy met him in 1983 he went and saw his amazing work. He even let him hold a wet skin with tattoos on it.

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On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of our premier publishing effort, New Tribalism, the book that detonated the explosive growth of tattooing in the late twentieth century, Hardy Marks Publications is excited to announce the re-release of all five issues of our historic Tattootime magazine in one boxed set.

Now all five Tattootimes - New Tribalism (1982), Tattoo Magic (1983), Music & Sea Tattoos (1984), Life & Death Tattoos (1987), and Art From the Heart (1991) are here in two beautiful hardbound volumes, enclosed in a sturdy slipcase. All contents are from the first edition of each original -- subsequent reprints omitted some material. The combined volumes add up to 352 full color pages, plus original covers, and an added 27-page subject and title index to the entire series.

Tattootime truly changed the world-documents, ideas, and images that have become legendary. Now experience its timeless impact.

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On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of our premier publishing effort, New Tribalism, the book that detonated the explosive growth of tattooing in the late twentieth century, Hardy Marks Publications is excited to announce the re-release of all five issues of our historic Tattootime magazine i...

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Christian Audigier bought Ed hardys clothing line from him around 2000s. He had it for 11 years. From him only being a small clothing line Christian brought his line to the big leagues. But then in 2011 he sold it to Iconix managment group.

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Tattoo HIStories: The Skin Collector - Fukushi Masaichi (1878-1956)

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Dr. Masaichi Fukushi, a Japanese physician and pathologist. His fascination with tattoos, led him to become a passionate collector of tattooed skin.

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Ed Hardy did his last Tattoo in Tattoo City, his original tattoo shop, in 2008. After that he retired. He couldent go on after his second hip replacement.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christian Audigier ( French: ; 21 May 1958 - 9 July 2015) was a French fashion designer known for the Ed Hardy and Von Dutch clothing lines.

Audigier began working in the fashion industry at the age of fifteen. He designed a line of denim that was inspired by his love for rock and roll, specifically The Rolling Stones. His designs became so popular that a top executive from MacKeen Jeans took notice of Audigier's talent, affording him the opportunity to create with the company and travel the world. He moved to New York in his early twenties to expand his own brand. He worked with Guess, Levi's, Diesel, Fiorucci, Bisou Bisou and XOXO, Smet, among others.

He then moved to Los Angeles where he would achieve most of his success as a fashion designer. After the death of artist Kenny Howard, also known as Von Dutch, in 1992, Howard's daughters sold the Von Dutch name to Ed Boswell who then began working together with Michael Cassel and Robert Vaughn to create the Von Dutch brand. Later, Tonny Sorensen would be brought in as an investor and would become a 51% owner of the company while Michael Cassel owned 49%. It was Tonny Sorensen who initially brought in Christian Audigier.[who? ] The clothing brand that followed gained popularity in the US and attracted the attention of celebrities such as Madonna, Britney Spears, Milen Balasov, Justin Timberlake, and later Ashton Kutcher and Eric Church. Audigier helped popularize the brand, but left on amicable terms in 2007. He went on to popularize the Ed Hardy brand. Audigier's other brands include SMET with French singer Johnny Hallyday. Audigier's brands are sold internationally in over 40 countries.[unreliable source? ]

In 2008, he joined forces with a small cooperative in France, Montpeyroux Estates, to release a line of fine wines. The bottles are wrapped with labels that are designed with the classic Ed Hardy designs and are done by art director and photographer Barry Sutton.[unreliable source? ]

Audigier was a partner along with Pure Management in a nightclub in the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The nightclub closed in September 2010.

He released a line of Ed Hardy perfumes for men and women. In 2012, he appeared on an episode of Sweden's Next Top Model.

In 2011 Christian Audigier sold Ed Hardy to Iconix Brand Management Group.

He had four children: Crystal, Dylan, Rocco and Vito. Audigier resided in the Mid-Wilshire section of Los Angeles.

Christian Audigier was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood cancer, in January 2015. He died 10 July 2015 at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California, after lapsing into a coma. He was 57 years old.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Christian Audigier ( French: ; 21 May 1958 - 9 July 2015) was a French fashion designer known for the Ed Hardy and Von Dutch clothing lines. Audigier began working in the fashion industry at the age of fifteen.

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At the end of the book he says he got the idea from Joel Selvin. He got intrviewed by Lisa Lousi in 1990s helped him make ths book too. He published this book in June 18th 2013. He published many more book like Tattoo Flash, 2000 Dragon, perminant curios, and more. He is still alive and well with his wife.