Look Book: M.I.A. Would Like To Dress You Up (And Take Your Money)

Look Book

M.I.A. Would Like To Dress You Up (And Take Your Money)

As promised, M.I.A. has launched her limited-edition clothing line, and the "Okley Run" store is open for business on her Web site. While the prints are pretty much as outlandish as you expect, the prices for each individual piece are a bit insane—and not in the "clashing colors that actually look better and better the more you focus on their dissonance" way, or even the Crazy Eddie way^*. A few of the looks, and their attendant price tags, after the jump.

This tank top is the most subdued item in the collection, which is why it's "only" $65.

The answer is "seventy-five." As in dollars.

When a bodysuit is splashed with a print that makes even a model that doesn't exist look a little pudgy, you might think that there's a design issue.

Are you ready for a brave new world where cultures collide in unexpected ways? And where you can pay $180 for the privilege of wearing a fruit-adorned hoodie?

The only way this hoodie could be worth the $180 asking price? Wearing it to a gathering of Sarah Palin fans and reveling in the looks they give you when you tell them you're wearing a piece that calls itself "Islamic."

Okley Run [miauk.com]

^* That "beeeeat the heeeat" opening sure sounds ripe for picking by M.I.A.'s sample-happy ways, no?

12:00 PM on Fri Sep 12 2008
By Maura Johnston
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by Nicolars at 12:21 PM on 09/12/08
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She should subtitle this "The Claudia Kishi collection".
by Thierry at 12:24 PM on 09/12/08
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What can I get for ten dollars?
by dyfl at 12:32 PM on 09/12/08
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@Thierry Anything you want, as long as it's a copy of KALA and not a hoodie.

I admit I would actually buy that HOW MANY HOW MANY shirt if it was not SEVENTY FIVE FUCKING DOLLARS. I mean, twenty dollar don't mean shit to you, but [eject]
by Al Shipley at 12:37 PM on 09/12/08
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Why must every musician who "cares about fashion" dress like a colorblind toddler, and expect people to want to emulate that? Oh right, because it works most of the time.
by westartedthis at 12:54 PM on 09/12/08
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puttin' people on the map that never seen a Gap.
by moomintroll at 01:06 PM on 09/12/08
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Um, I got that MIA t-shirt at her show last year for the price of an AK-47 in Africa. ($20)
Weird, inflation is really out of control...eh?
by rajmahall at 01:18 PM on 09/12/08
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@Nicolars: *high-fives*
by loudersoft at 01:41 PM on 09/12/08
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I still want to offer my love in exchange for the watermelon hoodie size L. Anyone?
by propaganda-artist at 05:19 PM on 09/12/08
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I have that "How Many How Many" shirt as well. It was a tour shirt. She should go back to music, clearly.
by Silverfuture at 07:16 PM on 09/12/08
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She's such a size-ist! She didn't make any XL shirts!

That Islamic hoodie is deep. It's like, if you turn the Yo! MTV Raps! logo upside down and remove all the words, you can totally see Muhammad, y'all.
by effthis at 12:36 AM on 09/14/08
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Does anyone notice that the How Many shirt is only $30 if you click on "Tour Merch" and $75!!!! if you click on Okley Run. WTF??? They think we stupid??