Regardless of what comes out of Philadelphia, it will always be compared to New York City. Philadelphians know that, everyone knows it. Philly's known for three main things; cheesesteaks, Rocky, and Ben Franklin...of course, New York can one up us by saying that a grilled vegetable sandwich is a much healthier solution, Rocky has nothing on the Ghostbusters Trilogy and as for Ben, just take a powdered wig and place it atop Rudy Julianni's balding head.
The scary part is, is that Philadelphia is slowly creeping up on the urban styles of New York's yesteryear, and we're doing a better job at it. Graphic designers, fashion designers, graffiti artists, and fine artists have been starting clothing labels featuring handcrafted jeans, tees, sneakers, really anything they can get their hands on! The search in and of itself can lead to the entire meaning behind the work, and that, my friends, is what makes Philadelphia the best city in the world, the realization of freedom to do what you want, how you want and actually make it work.
Every week, I'm going to show eModa customers a taste of Philly style...perhaps, if you come here, I'll buy you a REAL cheese steak.
The following shirt has a great story. In 1988, Vox Populi was formed as a nonprofit artist collective that supports the work of emerging artists with monthly exhibitions. Recently, Vox came over a batch of bad luck, so they asked Virgil Marti, a Tyler graduate, to design a shirt that could be sold as a fund raiser for their gallery space.

The beauty in this tee does not come from the print, it comes from the story.


To find out more, visit these links:
http://www.pewarts.org/95/Marti/
http://www.artintheage.com/
http://www.voxpopuligallery.org/about.htm