Ok, I waited and waited and thought, eventually this thing is going to die off on its own, but I’ve waited too long and now it’s time for me to step in.

This Ed Hardy thing is ridiculous.  You can’t stop at a gas station or Wal-Mart in America and not run into someone wearing Ed Hardy.  Sure a lot of the stuff (well the more expensive stuff anyways) is cut well and fits nicely, but it never looked good.

You know that there’s a problem with a fashion trend when the people who love it most are rednecks, guidos and tweens who are in desperate need of parents who care.  Seriously? You want to wear the stuff that these people do?  They even print his designs on lighters and shot glasses that you can pick up where? At you local skeezy gas station of course.

What makes this appealing? Oh, it’s actually put to together by a real designer you say?  Right, Christian Audigier makes this stuff.  That’s great, because I really want to wear the next thing that the guy who came up with Von Dutch makes.  Do you see a general theme here?  Trucker hats and the official brand of rednecks who want to look cool and edgy, this is a guy to get behind.

And please, don’t fool yourself into thinking it’s cool because celebrities wear it.  What I hope you realize, but you may not, is that celebrities are given a LOT of free stuff so that when the paparazzi snap shots of them and those photos end up on magazines, the clothing that they’re wearing gets excellent exposure.  Just because you saw Brad Pitt wearing it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s cool.  Also, please note that in the image above Britney Spears is sporting Ed Hardy.  You don’t want to look like her do you?  She proves my entire point because she may be a celebrity but she’s also a REDNECK.

I really hope that you take this to heart.  Get rid of anything that you own that has Ed Hardy on it, or if you don’t own any Ed Hardy, please don’t buy any, it would break my heart.  I’m trying to help you live sexy, don’t hurt my feelings by doing the exact opposite.