{"id":343,"date":"2007-07-04T21:03:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T03:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobafett.com\/news\/bounty\/marc-ecko-boba-fett\/"},"modified":"2014-12-21T17:32:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T01:32:44","slug":"marc-ecko-boba-fett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/collectibles\/marc-ecko-boba-fett\/","title":{"rendered":"Boba Hoodie from Marc Ecko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ecko-fett_2007-hires.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/bobafett.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/ecko-fett_2007-hires.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[343]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" alt=\"ecko-fett_2007-hires.jpg\" id=\"image344\" src=\"http:\/\/bobafett.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/ecko-fett_2007-hires.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a>Fashion designer Marc Ecko, behind &#8220;the world-famous Rhino brand,&#8221; announced a series of officially-licensed Star Wars limited edition apparel, which includes a premium &#8220;Fett for Real&#8221; hooded sweatshirt.<\/p>\n<p>At $98, this may be the highest echelon of Fett fashion, <a href=\"http:\/\/bobafett.com\/bounty\/apparel\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">compared to the other items<\/a>, but some fans at BobaFett.com are all over it and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobafett.com\/boards\/viewtopic.php?id=1585\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">already saved up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the press release (July 2, 2007):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is no secret that I am a fanboy of all things Star Wars and of George Lucas,&#8221;\u009d Marc Ecko said. &#8220;So when the opportunity to create this collection arose, <strong>I jumped on it like Boba on his bounty.<\/strong> Our mission was to dig into Lucasfilm&#8217;s archives and emerge with a line that takes its cues from popular culture and adds the rich visual language that made Star Wars the most relevant fable of the last 100 years.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the StarWars.com <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/community\/news\/rocks\/news20070703.html\">interview with Marc Ecko<\/span> (July 3, 2007):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ecko wouldn&#8217;t be a true fan unless he contemplated once and awhile which characters mirror his own personality and fashion sense. &#8220;Philosophically, I identify with Yoda,&#8221; Ecko says. &#8220;He&#8217;s fair. He plays it cards up. He is unsuspecting. For him if it is right, and it makes sense, then it should be. <strong>Aesthetically, I identify most with Boba Fett. He puts Al Capone&#8217;s swagger to shame.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2007\/07\/04\/photos-marc-ecko-creates-star-wars-apparel\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\/Film<\/a>, a blog which I enjoy, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=site%3Aslashfilm.com+fett\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">sometimes name-drops<\/a> the Fett man:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am so buying the Boba Fett inspired hoodie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"ecko-fett-sweatshirt_2007-hires.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/bobafett.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/ecko-fett-sweatshirt_2007-hires.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[343]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" alt=\"ecko-fett-sweatshirt_2007-hires.jpg\" id=\"image345\" src=\"http:\/\/bobafett.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/ecko-fett-sweatshirt_2007-hires.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a>In addition to the hooded sweatshirt, a Boba Fett sequened T-shirt is also in the series. Price is yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>The press release links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marceckoenterprises.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Ecko Enterprises<\/a>, but there&#8217;s no additional information available there at the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Marc Ecko Enterprises&#8217; Director of Corporate Communications for providing hi-res imagery to us. Thanks to Sadriel_Fett for spotting the first coverage of this on StarWars.com and posting it to our hoppin&#8217;, quality-over-quantity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/boards\/\">message boards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion designer Marc Ecko, behind &#8220;the world-famous Rhino brand,&#8221; announced a series of officially-licensed Star Wars limited edition apparel, which...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectibles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}