Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Hollywood Fashion Gossip

Ostler echo Ecko.............or is it the other way around? According to one source "Ryan Ostler and ex New York graffiti artist, Mark Ecko (ECKO, unlimited) fall in the same category of being young, male, innovative and trend setting." If you are in the US you will more than likely be familiar with at least one of these names, and we are hedging our bets that it's Ecko, if not you may have heard of his world famous Rhino brand. "Fashion goes out of fashion, but the need to be fashionable never does..." Marc Ecko, designer, artist and entrepreneur. Ecko seems to be the epicenter of the youth culture marketplace. The Rhino brand apparently evolved from just six t-shirts and a can of spray paint, the Ecko powerhouse has now become a full-scale global fashion and lifestyle company with numerous partnerships including Playboy, the NFL, Jimi Hendrix, Marvel Comics, and Bruce Lee. For those not so familiar Ecko covers the hip-hop, skate/extreme sport and designer fashion markets, footwear, leather goods, gloves, outerwear, underwear, bags and a women's collection. Ecko recently developed a cosmetics line, a magazine (Complex), collections for children and a Jackass style retail TV channel (eckoTV) where customers are being asked to provide the content. Did we lose all track of the headline? Not really, we've been following a lead on Ryan Ostler, considered one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors, but so far all we can churn up is a long list of what he's not doing, seeing, launching, selling, losing, dating. He's even announced that he'll be limiting the number of retailers that want to sell the latest Ostler Adrenaline range, but when we see the Ostler Ecko reference in the same sentence we have to wonder if Mr Ostler is acting on his own behalf as his own press agent and doing a pretty poor job of it. Whilst Mr Ecko's track record speaks very well for itself. BTW well done Marc. Guess this is one piece of Hollywood gossip that we could do with a few new leads on.....Did he eat in the Italian at the weekend, who was the girl with him, what's he up to now, any volunteers? No, no thanks... not you Ryan! If you are in the US you'll probably be familiar with the Rhino brand and ecko unltd, for those in the UK you'll find ecko unltd stores in Croydon and Manchester. He also has stores in Italy, Brasil and Germany along with distributors throughout the world. And as for the Ostler Adrenaline brand of cutting edge extreme threads....we're still looking! Any bets on which one of the above will turn up at Cannes?

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