T-shirt History


by Wendy at June 14, 2007, 10:18 AM

The tees that started it all in the 1980s -- the "Frankie Say Relax" tees designed by Katharine Hamnett and worn by UK new wave group Frankie Goes to Hollywood -- have not only been reinterpreted not only by today's British designers Giles Deacon and Gareth Pugh, but by Hamnett herself. Twenty years later, she is still at it, reclaiming the originally Buddhist phrase "Choose Life" and printing it on environmentally responsible tees.

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