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Ksubi (formerly Tsubi) Fashion
Clothing & Fashion by Ksubi (formally Tsubi)
The story of Australian designer fashion label Tsubi began in 2001, marking the start of a youth culture that appreciated and demanded a designer street fashion label. The Tsubi fashion range became hot property amongst boutique shops throughout Australia with the tsubi distressed denim jeans with the trademark dice + + , tsubi buttons, tsubi stitching pattern, and unique tsubi brand writing becoming the latest fashion trend. The Tsubi designer range was founded by George Gorrow (also designer of menswear for clothing brand Insight), Dan Single (currently the member ‘Dangerous Dan’ of house music artists The Gang Bang Dj’s who have released various albums such as ‘Light Sound Dance’ and ‘D is for Disco, E is for Dancing’ through Modular Records), and Gareth Moody (who has since moved on to his solo fashion label Chronicles of Never). The success of Tsubi denim jeans brought about the labels expansion into a fully fledged fashion label. Tsubi started to explore other avenues such as Tsubi tshirts, female clothing , sunglasses and jewellery. Ksubi shoes / footwear is the next fashion item on the agenda for the Ksubi boys in 2010.
The success of Tsubi has led to the opening of four boutique Tsubi shop fronts. Three Tsubi stores are located in Australia (two in Sydney in Paddington and Bondi, and one in Armadale, Melbourne), and one Tsubi boutique is opened in Manhattan, New York. Locations and contact details of these stores is at the bottom of the page. However, with all the success of creating a subculture fashion label with worldwide popularity, Tsubi has had it’s fair share of problems. In 2006, the Tsubi clothing label was to be no more, after American shoe label Tsubo sued them for a trademark infringement. Cutting a long story short, the case was settled out of court after Tsubo agreed to allow Tsubi to keep it’s name within Australia, yet change it to Ksubi (but still pronounced the same) for international markets. This has led to Tsubi fashion being rebranded as Ksubi throughout its retail stores across the globe. Tsubi or Ksubi is considered a reputable Australian fashion label which features in magazines and fashion shows throughout the world. Late 2009, Ksubi announced its partnership with Australian department store David Jones to create a range of shop-in-shop concept stores that would stock exclusive Ksubi clothing collections. The Ksubi – David Jones collections are actually priced lower compared to its boutique range, a reflection that the Ksubi brand has taken a more mainstream approach. In January 2010, Ksubi was placed into voluntary administration after financial woes. In February 2010, clothing distributor Bleach and Quicksilver Europe founder Harry Hodge bought Ksubi out. Ksubi will now sit alongside labels Insight and Something Else. For the latest range of Ksubi Sunglasses, jeans, tshirts and other clothing click here –>Ksubi Fashion Also, check out this wicked George Gorrow feature on The Selby, as well as this 2008 interview by Pedestrian TV
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