You have all seen the shirts, the jeans, and the accessories all around you. In clubs, at the office, in schools, and all the fashionable districts, where you never used to see much rock and roll wear like bandanas and print-alone tees, let alone as properly fashionable wear. And you know the brand is white hot, when you can also see all the copies and knock-offs proliferating, too! French designer Christian Audigier, of Lee Jeans and Von Dutch hats and apparel fame, started in 04, licensing the Ed Hardy designs and life work on ink. Audigier obviously saw the rise of body ink as high fashion, especially with the strong influence of the seminal 5 book series, TattooTime, by Don Ed Hardy and his wife, which really helped bring about the new acceptance and appreciation today of body ink as high art. And as intensely desirable wearable art, too.

Christian Audigier is the mover, the shaker, the high-fashion maker. His marketing thrust, as perfected with his Von Dutch Originals, incorporated direct selling to influential celebrities and Hollywood types, as well as opening stores in all the worlds most exclusive and high-fashion districts. Very high-profile, very IT, very NOW! And so are Ed Hardy Men and Ed Hardy Women perfumes by Christian Audigier. The rage for the tattoo and ink art inspired prints and designs now extends to the unique cases that these perfumes come in. A simple, elegant bottle with a no-nonsense cap, inside a case box cylinder imprinted with the Ed Hardy art and the well known simple signature script. Just like the clothing and other apparel, these perfumes also allude to that rebel biker persona, a simple and highly individual person, but riding and wearing high art.

The perfumes are definitely in high demand, and if not at the top, are among the hottest sellers in any vendors inventory. This is at department stores and other retailers, of course, but also especially among national online distributors and resellers. Descriptions like ”super vibrant and sexy,” and ”vintage floralcy with a Rock and Roll Edge” are being touted for the exciting new product line. The indie rocker character, with its ”dark eeriness,” is also being attributed to Ed Hardy Women and Ed Hardy Men fragrances, and everyone is eating it up. The scent itself is fruity and floral, with strong hints of wild strawberry, and should suit as well as other like combos, as in Wild or Miss D Cherie. The name and its newness, as well as the case box art, however, definitely singles out Ed Hardy Perfume as the ’just-gotta-have-it’ scent, either for oneself, your significant, or that partner you used to hang around and get in trouble with, back in the day.

Christian Audigier and Ed Hardy - Supremely Hip and Very Hot,filter paper!

Operator Independent Drivers Association

Appeals judges have thrown out a rule requiring commercial trucks operated by companies with poor safety records to be fitted with electronic devices to record drivers hours.

The regulation issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in and scheduled to take effect next June is invalid because the rule says nothing about ensuring that the devices are not used to harass drivers the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals said.The now-void regulation targeted only a small slice of the trucking industry companies found to have especially low compliance with the rules on how long drivers can work.But the court decision also may affect a proposed regulation,filter paper, issued in February that would require an electronic recorder in every long-haul commercial truck in the country.

The recent ruling is a victory for the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, an organization of some truckers who own their own rigs.The association argued that the regulation opened the door to potential harassment of drivers and the court said the federal agency was legally obligated to address that issue but hadnt.Companies can and do use technology to harass drivers by interrupting rest periods Todd Spencer executive vice president of the drivers association said in a statement Monday.

The American Trucking Associations the industrys largest trade association had supported the rule.The electronic devices replace paper logbooks which safety advocates the motor carrier administration and drivers themselves say are widely falsified.That long-standing problem prompted the agency to issue its sweeping call in February for electronic recorders across the industry.

That still stands as a proposal not a final rule like the one just struck down.The motor carrier administration now may withdraw the proposal until it can address issues raised by the appeals court Tim Wiseman an Indianapolis lawyer specializing in transportation regulations issues said Monday via email. Wiseman is a partner with Scopelitis Garvin Light Hanson Feary.But the court decision probably will do no more than delay an industrywide requirement to replace logbooks with electronic recorders other trucking professionals said.