After spending his teenage years stoned on a couch in sub-urban Maryland, and then his 20s flailing around like a carp out of the water, Tom Block moved to Spain, learned to speak a couple other languages, began his visual art career in Madrid, Lisbon and around Iberia, then moved back to DC, had a couple hundred art shows, wrote thirteen books, 60 plays, and founded the International Human Rights Art Movement.

Then, rounding the corner into the final turn, he looked at his life and discovered he had not become a musician, nor a fashionista. Since there was no f-ing way he was going to take up a musical instrument at this late date, he set his mind to becoming a fashionista.