If it wasn’t for the wacky weed, we may not have been blessed with the kooky, out-of-this-world designs from Finland’s finest CTRL and the brand’s CEO Freeman. Known for his penchant to take the piss, and not grind on the serious side of life, Freeman’s success is nothing to be laughed at! Formed with one mission in mind, to hook in hot chicks, the brand has taken on a life of its own – and given Freeman that ultimate one-name moniker (hello Cher!).

"CTRL used to be a hardcore skateboard brand, only T-shirts, hoodies and hard goods. We still do all that but we just added some fashion in the mix and started doing pretty much everything but shoes. We try to be self-supported, everything we want to wear ourselves we design ourselves and add it to the clothing line" says the Olsen twins-obsessed Freeman.

As far as catering to the ladies, Freeman raps that "ladies should rule the whole street wear clothing scene, like gay dudes rule the fashion world. Ladies are so much better in everything. I’d love it if Shawn Stussy were a girl. Shauna. Everything would be so much better now."

Preach on brutha-man! The new line Spring ’09 collection is inspired by "Boys From Mars, Bushwick Bill, females in general, leeches, skins, Finland as an empire, Paris, Jakarta and Manila, Teenage Mutants, Rank Xerox, Soweto, Bukkake, real talk, Altman's MASH and one of the top tens in the universe." Just like Janet Jackson, we should all be in… CTRL!

*Quotes pulled from my interview at Sneaker Freaker.

To cop your piece of CTRL
Hit up the CTRL webstore here
Or you can get CTRL in Oz directly at Freshin