Ideas for T-Shirt Designs

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"GRACE FRAGA: So, Chantelle, the first thing that you want to show us is some designs that you have created, and tell us a little bit how you came up with these designs. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Sure. These are a few of our newest designs for Wear Me Naked, some of them. We have so many more, so every season we have. There's four seasons. We have--we do it like this, so it's winter-spring, spring-summer, summer-fall, fall-winter. That's how we release them. We have about six to seven to--six to nine designs for each design--each season, and our catalog is a comic book. GRACE FRAGA: Oh... CHANTELLE TIBBS: So--yeah. GRACE FRAGA: ...cool! CHANTELLE TIBBS: We have a comic book story and we have a--which I'll show you guys a little bit later, too. GRACE FRAGA: Can they look at it at your web site? CHANTELLE TIBBS: Absolutely, you can. GRACE FRAGA: wearmenaked.com CHANTELLE TIBBS: You can order it off the web site and a dollar of your order goes to the charity of your choice. It's all listed there. GRACE FRAGA: Nice. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Yeah. So these are a few designs. Let me talk about the inspirations on a few of them. This one is called "Colored Spirals." It's just a basic--when I first designed this t-shirt, I thought it was interesting to tie in with the comic book catalog because there was lipstick on the collar and it was just like kind of like feel--there's a story behind the clothes, there's a story to go along with the clothing, so that's how that happened. And the buttons are spirals. Spirals are good too 'cause they attach your--they catch your attention. It's like you're being brainwashed, but it's really nice. And I like a lot of dotted lines. So it is just a--it's a shirt on top of a t-shirt. This one's called "So Weary" and it's a picture of like what would like African art that I drew out and it says, "We are tired--we're tired of the system. It makes us ever so weary." I have been in training for a little while, San Francisco Women Against Rape, and we were studying, we like to be with them, and we were talking a lot about the system, so I got into that. Inspiration can come from anywhere. This flower is called "Love me not" and all the petals are kinda like based on this one petal, "Is it love me not or not?" and everything surrounds this one little petal, and that's why the orange enhances it. This is before I hated orange. And this design is actually--it's literally wear me naked. It's a girl and she has, like, an expression on her face like, "Oh, my God, I'm nude," and then we're covering her private parts with our company name GRACE FRAGA: That's great. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Those are the designs and those are their inspirations, so what's next is to sit down and assess what your inspirations are... GRACE FRAGA: Great. CHANTELLE TIBBS: ...and what you would like to do with them. GRACE FRAGA: So coming up next, what's your inspiration?"