ARTIST AND BRAND: She’s tall, thin, and beautiful with waist-length platinum-blond hair and ruby red lips. She’s 23, lives in LA and idolizes Paris Hilton. This could be just about any girl in Hollywood, right? Not Elena Gallen. After receiving a degree in Media Studies from Blaquerna University, she recently moved from Barcelona, Spain to the States to study film. A phenomenally talented freehand illustrator and painter, she likes David Lynch movies, vintage toys, post-modernism, monsters, skateboards, surrealism, unicorns and vampires. However, what really sets this beauty apart is her amazing line of limited edition T-shirts that quickly garnered a cult-following among the fashion elite. Everyone from Fashion Designer Giles Deacon, to Rock Singer Wendy James (Racine) has been spotted in one of her pop-culture amalgam designs.

“I thought of using tee shirt design as a platform to reach the general public with my creations and help them not take them so seriously,” says Gallen, “Plus, it’s a pleasure to have your work not only recognized, but actually worn by people. There’s a step between liking something and making it part of oneself. I think t-shirts are able to eliminate that step.”

The unfussy white tees are emblazoned with surprising images such as, double-headed Bambis, tattooed octopus ladies, bearded Snow Whites, Paris Hilton’s famous Chihuahua, Tinkerbell, and most famously, a bloody-nosed Kate Moss. “Kate Moss is an illustration about a teenage idol” she explains about her best-selling tee, “I denounce and praise this addict model who’s a role model for millions of boys and girls nowadays. It’s an ephemeral and temporal illustration, and the actual impact it creates will be irrelevant in a time. That’s its strength, it defines this era perfectly. It defines the fleetingness of fame.”- source: Tribal Runway.

CATALOGUE: If you'd like to see our t-shirt collection as a buyer or you're thinking of stocking us you should download our catalogues. DOWNLOAD PDF.

STOCKING ELENA GALLEN: E-mail us with your store’s website, blog, flickr, myspace or just include some info and/or photos of your store, brands you sell and location. If your store fits us we’ll get back to you attaching our stockist catalogue (including wholesale price and other pricing information). Stocking our t-shirt doesn’t mean you are obligated to buy a big quantity. We like small stores as much as we like big ones and we understand that small bussinesses who take personal care of every detail and don’t have huge budgets but have beautiful and rare art pieces deserve to stock us as much as any other store so we’ll arrange it so that you get our wholesale price and a small quantity of clothing. We try not to work with consignment so please avoid requesting it. Ready to become an authorized distributor for exclusive ELENA GALLEN clothing? E-mail us to tshirts@elenagallen.comclass="a_ext_link">tshirts@elenagallen.com>

PHOTOS: Would you like to submit your fan photos to us? Just wear one of our t-shirts, shoot yourself and e-mail us to tshirts@elenagallen.comclass="a_ext_link">tshirts@elenagallen.com>. We might use your pretty face for promotion. You can also post them attached to your comments for everyone to see.

BUY NOW: Are you sick of reading[.bleep.]and you're ready to start shopping? Go visit our online store

SPONSORING: Would you like to sponsor the artist? Besides from her creative works she's a trend-setter, scene club-kid with quite a few underground contacts, named "it girl" and "future spanish all star" by spanish trendy media.  If you want her to wear some of your stuff e-mail elenagallen@gmail.comclass="a_ext_link">elenagallen@gmail.com>

FAMOUS FACES: From annonymous scene kids to fashion designer Giles Deacon (London) or rock star Wendy James (NYC) from Racine, to deejays and scene photographers like Geej (Barcelona), fashion photographers like Elias Tahan (L.A), "It girls" like Gala Gonzalez (London), Internet celebrities like Pelayo Diaz aka Katelovedme, runway models like Julia or Andres Borque (Barcelona), belgium scene kids like Clyde Burrows, stylists like Patricia Ruiz del Portal or underground pop-punk divas like Pinkglove.