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Designer Hand Sanitizer. You Heard Right.

Even if Ed Hardy by Christian Augdigier isn't your style, chances are you've seen the T-shirts at least, most recently on reality show dad Jon Gosselin. But here's a new item from Ed Hardy Habit that got me wondering if the design world has lost it (I know this isn't the first silly "designer" item to come down the pike -- it just grabbed me this week as plain ridiculous): hand sanitizer. That's right, the alcohol-based gel we all carry to use at restaurants or after being on public transportation. The stuff that's pretty cheap. And comes in a plain plastic bottle because it doesn't need to have anything fancier.

Too pedestrian for you, though? Now you can carry around -- or keep at home or at your desk in a pump-style -- and show off to your friends, your designer hand sanitizer. Sure, it's still cheap (only $5 for 2 oz., and $13 for 9.3 oz. w/pump), but it's Ed Hardy Habit, and it comes in a jazzed-up bottle and has a coconut-bergamot scent. Also available: sanitizing pens and foaming hand sanitizer. Made by Habitual Solutions. And so popular it's on backorder as I write this. Guess I'm the one who needs to get with it.

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Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano by Ed Hardy

by Noah Joseph (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos, Celebrity Design

The Christian Audigier style has grown so pervasive with the Ashton Kutcher set that it's long since leapt off of t-shirts and is attaching itself to everything else. French wine is one example, but the fashion designer behind such labels as Ed Hardy and Von Dutch has been eagerly making his mark, one way or another, on automobiles. First there was the Ed Hardy edition Smart car, then came the Chrisitian Audigier edition Lamborghini Murcielago, followed by the Ducati Monster we brought you recently and a custom Mercedes CL63 AMG too. And now another addition to the Audigier automotive design portfolio has emerged in the form of a Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano. Making Lapo Elkann's ride seem reserved by comparisson, this unique Ferrari is decked out in more tattoo art than a biker rally, and goes to show that if you have the money, Audigier will be glad to "improve" your car for you.

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Ducati Monster 1100 by Christian Audigier and Rever Corsa

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Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos, Celebrity Design

If you're the type who wears threads from the likes of Von Dutch and Ed Hardy, you may recognize the name Christian Audigier. He's the French fashion designer behind these and other labels popular among Hollywood celebrities, stenciling tattoo-style designs on t-shirts and trucker hats for the Ashton Kutcher crowd. Unfortunately he's also penned his designs on the occasional motor vehicle, teaming up with Edo Competition for a special-edition Lamborghini Murcielago, which in turn bred an imitator in the Novitec/Unique Sportscars Ferrari F430 Calavera.

Apparently Audigier isn't quite done messing up otherwise beautiful Italian exotica, and has this time turned his attention to the Ducati Monster. Created in conjunction with motorbike customizers Rever Corsa, the Christian Audigier edition Ducati Monster 1100 comes decked out in airbrushed and vinyl-decal half-dragon tiger laid over a particularly garish red and gold paintjob. The whole thing screams wretched excess, but at $55,000, whoever buys one of these is probably looking for exactly that effect.

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Will Christian Audigier Move Into Michael Jackson's Rental?

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Christian Audigier, the permatan designer behind the flamboyant Ed Hardy style has made a quite a show of his sadness over Michael Jackson's passing. The Los Angeles Ed Hardy store features a billboard and large posters paying tribute to the star and showing Audigier together. Jackson appeared at Audigier's 50th birthday celebration in 2008 and the pair were spotted as recently as last February. Audigier has also said that he was working on merchandising with the King of Pop and that the two were planning on collaborating on a clothing line.

But the strangest rumor comes from TMZ. Their sources say that Audigier will be leasing the Holmby Hills mansion where Michael Jackson was living from Ed Hardy CEO Hubert Guez, who owns the estate. Jackson was renting the seven-bedroom home for $100,000 a month while he prepared for his London shows. Audigier plans to do business from the home and will move his company in to the estate by the end of the year.

Audigier was in London last night for the launch of his new Champagne, the latest addition to his line of wines. Decanter reports that cases of the Champagne wine were stolen from London's MoVida nightclub jours before they were to set to be poured and so still wines were served instead.

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Love Life Fringe Hobo, Handbag of the Day

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For those looking to indulge their retro-chic cravings this season we have the Ed Hardy Love Life Fringe Hobo bag. Besides the obvious eye-catching multi-colored leather fringe, this bag features a rose with full rhinestone detail and the words "Love Life" written in black rhinestones on a small banner scene. This bag certainly has lots of color, lots of glimmer, and no shortage of eye-popping personality. You'll have to have guts to spare and be completely in love with this bag if you want to pull it off. $320

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Can Christian Audigier Make French Wine Cool?

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wine

There are some rather flashy wines out there but perhaps none showier than the ones from Christian Audigier, he of the Ed Hardy brand and his own fashion label. Audigier is a brand obsessive. This is a man with his logo tattooed across his back. And the Audigier and Ed Hardy style is instantly recognizable and provokes an immediate reaction even if that reaction is less than positive. But what's surprising is that, at least according to the LA Times's Dan Neil, Audigier's wines aren't half bad.

The wine is bottled in France by the Castel Group and imported by Nicolas Wines in Connecticut and there are two price points: the Ed Hardy label goes for $10, and the Christian Audigier label is $20. And if your first reaction is "I wouldn't be caught dead drinking that" that's just fine. This wine isn't for those accustomed to perusing the aisles with a copy of Wine Spectator in their hands, it's designed to attract new drinkers and to show that wine can be playful. These days the French wine industry could use a little help and if there's anything that Christian Audigier seems to know about it's mass appeal. His website for the wines has the url www.thecoolwine.com and bears the tagline "it's not just a wine, it's a lifestyle." The wine also has its own MySpace page. The wine doesn't tout its French origin (the wine website makes no mention of it) but at least it is getting French wine into new hands.

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