Back in ‘06 Cassette Playa designer Carri Mundane was totally ubiquitous. She styled Klaxons and at some point everyone in the Old Blue wore that bleeding-eye t-shirt. Since then though she’s sort of ignored all the rules and decided that she’d rather have a streetwear brand rather than exist in high fashion. Of course her version of streetwear is all about Vikings, you don’t get that with Fubu,
Somewhere along the way she caught the eye of Rolling Stone and won their Designer of the Year award in 2008 (yes, they have one, but no, it’s not that prestigious). Recently she’s worked with Billionaire Boys Club and with Nike on a load of projects designed to keep you interested in trainer revivalism.
But, just because Mundane is street focused doesn’t mean she’s boring. The new stuff for the autumn/winter 09/10 collection, Believe in Flesh + Metal is apparently designed for cyborg Vikings.
Below are some of the “I dedicate this battle to Odin” limited edition digital print tees. Odin was the Norse God who specialised in war, wisdom, battle and death. So do these t-shirts.
Mundane reckons her brain is currently full of this music: “S.C.U.M, Telepathe, Tempa T, Burzum , Lil Wayne and EAST 17” and fantasy novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman. In Gaiman’s book some murderer gets caught up in a epic battle between Odin and modern life. It sounds like it sucks, but if you want to understand what shithole the zeitgeist is crouching in today you’ve got to understand these post-web wank fantasies. Cross that with Mundane’s favourite sloganeering pop art label Moschino, and an Eastern European delinquent and you have the outfit below. Perhaps Mundane is channeling the Polish gangsters who recently stabbed a policeman on her street.
DARYOUSH HAJ-NAJAFI
May 22nd, 2009 @ 11:31
Reader Comments
May 22nd, 2009
12:52 pm
Really not a fan of these, i wouldn’t wear them.
May 22nd, 2009
1:05 pm
if i didnt know any better these look like they were bought off a market for a couple of quid, but ohmygod shes a designer
May 22nd, 2009
1:52 pm
Is Libertine demented or does he dress like the crap band he’s named after?
I can’t think of tees I’d rather wear.
May 22nd, 2009
1:57 pm
Just like all the other crap it looks retarded. She.is.so.shit.
May 22nd, 2009
2:00 pm
They are truly hideous. I could be sick over what I am wearing now, and it would be vastly better than those hideous designs.
May 22nd, 2009
2:10 pm
All these haterz what are they wearing that’s so good? Carri is trying to look at shit in an original way and make something new. Hate isn’t clever guys it’s just fucking pussy, haterz are just scared to do they own shit.
May 22nd, 2009
4:44 pm
wank
May 22nd, 2009
9:26 pm
I was with it until that last abomination at the bottom there. The t-shirts are interesting though.
May 23rd, 2009
3:56 pm
the only brand that really captures the nordic spirit is thor steinar, favoured by skinheads and neo nazis across the world.
May 24th, 2009
10:02 pm
babygirl, normal isn’t working.
May 25th, 2009
1:07 pm
arrrghhh.
this is some cheaaaaaaap shit streetwear, hardly worth the time, one hit wonder springs to mind, poor wannabee bitch. I cant think of no one who would wear this even if it came free in the post.
May 25th, 2009
9:17 pm
Fuck me these are awful. The look like the shit you get in shops that stock Ed Hardy hats, but then again all the Cassette Playa shit was awful anyway. That, at least was worn by people who would give you a bump for saying hello, rather than kick your fucking head in which seems to be the clientel for this stuff.
Also, American Gods is fucking awesome, don’t hate on it if you haven’t read it.
May 26th, 2009
11:32 am
Those ‘designs’ remind me of a time I drank a bottle of coke during a hangover, which turned my sick into a nasty brown colour, which went all over my new T-Shirt. The stench was overpowering and it was a hot day. Yet, I would still pick that browny/black chunk covered t-shirt that caused me to retch every time there was a slight breeze than the awful ‘designs’ this social retard has come up with. Do us all a favour; fuck off and DIE.
May 31st, 2009
7:22 pm
if anyones the fool its the person that spends thousands on a fucking t shirt and is still a ‘nobody’. if someone has the power to make a tshirt that costs the same as a market garm, can charge a ton and make a living, id say they did pretty ok for a living. hows your shitty admin job working for for ya?
June 11th, 2009
5:02 pm
Thanks VICE…for providing a forum for people who are so fucking bitter that someone else is doing something CREATIVE AND EXCITING, while they are sitting on their asses glorifying their hangovers. You realize that all of your comments are cliche, and that people expect to read boring pseudo-VICE-do-don’t hating bullshit from you people right?
Carri is blindingly talented. Cassette Playa is an inspiration.
June 16th, 2009
8:19 am
VICE READERS ARE ALL THE SAME…..WANKERS! LISTEN 2 YOU ALL, 1 OF U IS TELLING HER 2 DIE! U FUCKING PSYCHO! ITS FUNNY HOW ITS THAT ‘SHIT’ THAT ITS BEEN TAKEN ON BY CRAIG FORD- WHO BASICALLY OWNS STREETWEAR! U DUMB FUCKS! U ONLY SLATE IT COZ U READ THIS SHIT ARTICLE THAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN SOME WANKY ARROGANT TONE, U ALL FOLLOW SUIT! SHAME. ON. U!