What better ambassador for a badass “metal, skate and comic-gore” streetwear brand than Peggy Oki?
The sole female on the original Z-Boys skate team (as seen on the Dogtown and Z-Boys documentary) is also a surfer, artist and environmental activist.
Photographed in Raglan this week for new label Bad Things,
The unisex label, launched by fashion designer Mala Brajkovic late last year with Maki Nishiyama and Vinnie Woolston (also a model for the range and the new face of Yves Saint Laurent’s La Nuit de l’Homme), focusses on t-shirts, sweatshirts and accessories.
The prints in Bad Tails feature “cyborg-animal” artwork created by renowned graphic artists, including Californian Jimbo Phillips (whose father designed the cult screaming hand logo for Santa Cruz skateboards in the 70s), Australian metal-artist Glenn Smith and UK artist Nik Gernert (one half of the Skumbag art duo).
The Raglan-based brand is hitting Auckland this week with a private party and pop-up store. The store, upstairs in K Rd’s St Kevin’s Arcade, will be open Friday-Sunday, 10am-5pm. We have two tickets to the private party and film preview at Whammy Bar tomorrow night.
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