Homage to Kiss (and the Mona Lisa)

That's a woman in an East Oakland tshirt with KISS. Check out her shirt

That's a woman in an East Oakland tshirt with KISS. Check out her shirt

One of my favorite Oakland artists/t-shirt makers is fiftyseven-thirtythree, from East Oakland. Lo Nyguen and her partners make wonderful clothing: fierce, funny and political. Recently, a customer from the East Coast sent Lo the ultimate fanpic.

Lo says: "One of our customers went to see KISS in Philly and sent us this pic of her and KISS. Hell YA!!! It’s kinda surreal to see the actual band and our homage in the same pic. Mad thanks to Mare, in Jersey (my home state) for the pic. Also my sincere apologies to Terry Gross for Gene’s behavior in the past."

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