Bomb Story: Kenny Scharf is living history. In the '80s downtown New York scene, Kenny's artistic rise ran alongside his friends Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Today, he stands on a body of iconic work that spans the globe. Our favorite thing about Kenny Scharf is that his graffiti still rules the streets, yet he can also hold down solo exhibitions at the finest galleries in the world. Kenny's characters are hard to miss as they're often painted on people's cars under his Karbombz program. Here's a Scharf-ized Adam Bomb.| Background Story: Originating in Scotland as ""tartan,"" we now call this pattern of crisscrossed lines ""Plaid."" Growing up in Southern California during the '80s and '90s, plaid beach volleyball shorts were always in our purview, thanks to labels like Mossimo and Stüssy. When we elevated to making cut-n-sew apparel like button-ups in the early 2000s, plaids made their way into our language as a nod to both the surf culture of the West Coast and Polo's influence on the East. In fact, every plaid speaks to a different subculture. Buffalo plaids were woven into the early New York hip-hop lumberjacks. Shadow plaids on swap meet Pendletons. And The Hundreds plaids, for all.