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Affliction Clothing is an American clothing manufacturer based in Signal Hill, California, owned by Affliction Inc. Launched in August 2005, the line includes t-shirts, polo shirts, thermals and hoodies in a style described as skull and crossbone inspired, and many shirts carry the names and logos of top ranked mixed martial arts fighters.
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Affliction Clothing is an
American clothing manufacturer
based in Signal Hill, California.[2]
It is owned by Affliction Inc. who also run MMA promotion
Affliction Entertainment.
Affliction was launched in August 2005. It is co-owned by Tom Atencio, Todd Beard, Eric Foss, and Clifton Chason and originated as a spin-out from Foss and Chason's Digital Ink Creative Services. On November 14, 2008, Todd Beard resigned after Kim Couture, Randy Couture's wife, filed for a restraining order against him in a Clark County court.
Affliction's clothing line includes t-shirts, polo shirts, thermals, and hoodies. Their style has been described as "skull and crossbone inspired". Many of Affliction's shirts bear the logo of many of the world's top ranked MMA fighters, including Georges St. Pierre, Randy Couture, and Quinton Jackson.
Several nightclubs and bars in Vancouver & Victoria do not allow Affliction's clothing in addition to other labels such as Ed Hardy due to a perceived association with local gang activities. Pamela Rogers, a spokesperson for Affliction, maintained that the brand "has nothing to do with gangs" and describes it instead as an "upscale men's boutique brand". In Calgary, the nightclub "Cowboys" has also banned the use of Affliction t-shirts, due to the incidents in Vancouver and Victoria.
Affliction Inc. along with Randy Couture and wife Kim Couture started an offshoot of Affliction Clothing, titled Xtreme Couture in 2007.
Sinful, a line of clothing specifically designed for women, is a part of the Affliction Inc. family and is like the sister to Affliction mens clothing. Their shirts, pants, and hoodies often feature a mix of religious and non-religious elements, which include, but are not limited to: angels, angel wings, doves, crosses, burning hearts, roses, and skulls.
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Affliction built its identity on the printed garment. The core products are ordinary in cut — t-shirts, thermals, polos and hoodies — and distinctive in surface: dense graphics combining skulls, wings, crosses and lettering, printed to look worn and layered. That is a deliberate position in men's apparel, where the graphic itself is the design and the garment is the canvas. The brand described itself as an upscale men's boutique brand, selling the artwork and the attitude rather than technical features.
The second half of the formula was mixed martial arts. Sponsoring and dressing leading fighters put the shirts on television in front of exactly the audience most likely to buy them, and the Xtreme Couture offshoot formalised the connection with Randy Couture. The women's line Sinful applied the same graphic language — angels, doves, burning hearts, roses and skulls — to women's shirts, pants and hoodies. The approach also brought controversy: some nightclubs in Canada barred the label over a perceived association with gang activity, which the company disputed, maintaining the brand had nothing to do with gangs.
Affliction was launched in August 2005. It originated as a spin-out from Digital Ink Creative Services and is owned by Affliction Inc., which also ran the MMA promotion Affliction Entertainment.
Affliction's clothing line includes t-shirts, polo shirts, thermals and hoodies. The style has been described as skull and crossbone inspired, and many shirts bear the logos of leading mixed martial arts fighters.
Xtreme Couture is an offshoot of Affliction Clothing started in 2007 with fighter Randy Couture. Sinful is the Affliction family's line designed for women, with shirts, pants and hoodies mixing motifs such as angels, wings, doves, crosses, roses and skulls.