Chrome Hearts Vintage Los Angeles Cross Tee Black

This is the Chrome Hearts Vintage Los Angeles Cross Tee in black, a short-sleeve t-shirt from the brand's vintage-style graphic tee range built around a Los Angeles reference and the house cross motif. It's for someone who wants the city Chrome Hearts actually comes from on the shirt rather than another plain logo tee.

Black is the ground Chrome Hearts works in most, which makes this the version that slots into a rotation without being styled around — denim, cargos or shorts, layered under a jacket in winter and worn on its own the rest of the year. The Los Angeles text is the detail that sets it apart from the brand's other cross tees: Chrome Hearts has been based in Los Angeles since Richard Stark founded it in 1988 and still manufactures there, so the city reference reads as a statement of origin rather than a tourist graphic.

What separates it from a graphic tee at a similar price is distribution. Chrome Hearts sells almost entirely through its own boutiques rather than wholesale accounts, so its tees circulate through resale instead of sitting on a retailer's site waiting to be restocked. Buy it if you want the brand's hometown piece rather than its most common graphic.

Available here in Small.