Fashion has been an outlet to air politcal views since the first slogan t-shirts were used to promote the US elections back in the 1950′s. I did a whole essay for my Design & Visual Culture module of my course about how t-shirts are our billboards. Katharine Hamnetts designs have spanned decades influencing the fashion concious to take a stance in their particular views wether it be saving the whales or dismissing wars. This photo shows her meeting Margaret Thatcher wearing a T-shirt stating “58% don’t want pershings” referring to missles being used during the Falklands war.
American Apparell have launched this Unisex t-shirt, priced at £23, to show their support to the iranian people.
It’s just a shame they appear to be profiting from the t-shirt as their is no mention of a donation to helping the iranian people.
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Good post.
But according to the fact sheet on the Iranian-American Community by Ali Mostashari for the Iranian Studies Group Research Series of February 2004, the 2000 Census reports that Iranians are well-educated and have six times as many doctoral degrees as Americans on average. The 2000 Census also shows Iranian-Americans as having a 45 percent higher per capita income and a median family income 38 percent higher than the national average.
http://rawstory.com/exclusives/orr/tehrangeles_iran_capital_expatriates_812.htm
n.b. we are building 3 links per month to your blog – we’ll get it to the first page in Google for “nottingham fashion blog”.
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got one – ha!