Wear Your Dreams

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Long before Ed Hardy became a multibillion-dollar brand name in fashion, he inspired nothing less than an artistic revolution as he spearheaded the tattoo renaissance in America.
Hardy first began drawing tattoo designs as a ten-year-old in Newport Beach, California-collecting bottles on the beach and raising change to buy eyeliner for the black outlines. He entered the San Francisco Art Institute in 1963 and, after graduation, turned down a full scholarship to the Yale School of Art to pursue a career as a tattoo artist.
Hardy began plying his trade in San Francisco and built his repertoire and his reputation on trips up and down the coast, from San Diego to Vancouver. He struck up a seminal correspondence with the legendary tattoo artist "Sailor Jerry" Collins, whom he met in Honolulu in 1969. Sailor Jerry set up a summit with Hardy and the Japanese tattoo artist known as Horihide, and in 1973 Hardy went to Japan, where he tattooed members of the yakuza and immersed himself in... Tovább

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Long before Ed Hardy became a multibillion-dollar brand name in fashion, he inspired nothing less than an artistic revolution as he spearheaded the tattoo renaissance in America.
Hardy first began drawing tattoo designs as a ten-year-old in Newport Beach, California-collecting bottles on the beach and raising change to buy eyeliner for the black outlines. He entered the San Francisco Art Institute in 1963 and, after graduation, turned down a full scholarship to the Yale School of Art to pursue a career as a tattoo artist.
Hardy began plying his trade in San Francisco and built his repertoire and his reputation on trips up and down the coast, from San Diego to Vancouver. He struck up a seminal correspondence with the legendary tattoo artist "Sailor Jerry" Collins, whom he met in Honolulu in 1969. Sailor Jerry set up a summit with Hardy and the Japanese tattoo artist known as Horihide, and in 1973 Hardy went to Japan, where he tattooed members of the yakuza and immersed himself in the art and culture of the East. Upon his return to San Francisco, he opened his own shop, Realistic Tattoo Studio, and counted members of the Diggers, Jefferson Airplane, and Hells Angels among his clients.
Wear Your Dreams traces the explosion of Hardy's flash tattoo art, the creation of his massive, spontaneous art piece for the millennium, 2000 Dragons, his enormously profitable license deal with Christian Audigier—which would see his art emblazoned on apparel favored by such celebrities as Madonna and David Beckham—and his last tattoo in 2008.
With the beat of Thelonious Monk, the pace of On the Road, and the spirit of Easy Rider, Ed Hardy's memoir is a never-before-seen look at an American icon who helped bring underground art aboveground. Vissza