Who Or What Is Ed Hardy?
Ed Hardy is a tattoo artist Ed Hardy is just starting to become popular because of his clothes.. Hardy pioneered the pop-culture tattoo-as-art space decades before the worldwide boom in tattoo artHardy has curated a number of exhibitions for both galleries and nonprofit spaces and lectures at museums and universities His work has appeared in numerous periodicals, books and films In 2000, he was appointed by Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown to that city’s Cultural Arts Commissionand was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the San Francisco Art Institute In 2004, Christian Audigier licensed the rights to produce the high-end Ed Hardy clothing line, which is based on Hardy’s imagery. Prior to the Ed Hardy clothing line, Audigier was the Head Designer at Von Dutch Originals, which marketed the imagery of Kenny Howard. Audigier has attempted to replicate the marketing techniques employed by Von Dutch Originals, by marketing directly to celebrity clients and by opening stores in high profile fashion d
