Project White T-shirt

It’s not just fashion, it’s a (R)evolution.

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31 designers from 13 countries transform and redefine the white t-shirt.

Curated by Triple-ajor to support Designers Against Aids.

Mundi,

Rykjavik, Iceland

http://www.mundivondi.net/ 

 At the age of 22, Mundi Vondi has already completed six collections, opened his own boutique in Reykjavik, and collaborated in several art projects internationally as one-third of the artgroup MoMs. His adventurous, oversized designs have earned him plenty of attention in Iceland and abroad. For the project, Mundi wanted to give the white t-shirt an identity. He spent six days wearing the t-shirt around Reykjavik, allowing random circumstances--by friends, food, or nature, among others--to leave their imprints. In this way, the t-shirt inherits a part of Mundi's experiences and adventures the same way a son inherits his father's history. Thus, following Icelandic tradition, Mundi named the t-shirt "Mundisson" to explain how, without context, the t-shirt would simply be a dirty garment with a hole in it. However, with context, "Mundisson" inherits its own life and story.

8045 by Boas Krisjansson's

Reykjarik, Iceland

http://www.kristjansson-boas.com/

Bóas Kristjánsson's progressive take on unisex knit garments has been gaining a lot of attention after his recent debut at Paris Men's Fashion Week, with his collection set to hit stores worldwide next summer. Yet his talents are not limited to design; Bóas also works with music, video art, and photography. For his project, he used photography to express the idea of a "negative T-shirt" by shooting a model draped with t-shirt fabric, covering all of her body except for her torso. In this way, Bóas leaves an interesting negative space and reverses the conventional relationship of t-shirt and skin. The use of aluminum highlights the gradation and adds dimension to the piece, qualities that feature consistently in Bóas's work.

Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair,

Stockholm, Sweden

http://www.shoerepair.se/

Lee Cotter and Astrid Olsson of Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair express a high amount of respect for traditional tailoring, evinced by the shoe repair shop in London from which they take their name. At the same time, Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair's specialty lies in experimenting with new techniques to break conventional norms in fashion. This spirit is exemplified in the designers' creative process for Project White T-Shirt, in which Lee and Astrid reconstructed a white t-shirt by building a web of knots to create an elegant neck-piece. In this way Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair often experiments with new techniques as a starting point and guide from which they develop shapes and ideas.



T-shirt Dreaming - Questionaire

Rosebud

Own photos used.

Mount Kimbie 'Would Know'

Partners in Crime...

Own photos used.

When researching t-shirts and who wears them I decided to glance though a few of my favourite films for inspiration. Collectively I started to stumble across a similar theme in the idea of two people consecutively getting up to mischief whilst wearing basic t-shirts. It was if they were partners in crime and by wearing t-shirts they were making understated comments about their behaviour. Instead of wearing something that spoke to others, they let their actions do the talking. I really like this idea of a duo dressing in like minded ways and engaging in cute operations. It’s almost as if perhaps one is walking in the others shadow and they are role playing this to their advantage. It’s defiantly an interesting idea that i may further develop when it comes to making my variation of the t-shirt.

Images taken from the following films: Ken Park (Written by Harmony Korine & Directed by Larry Clark & Ed Lachman 2002), Candy (Adapted from Luke Davie's novel: 'Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction & Directed by Neil Armfield 2006), Gummo (Written & Directed by Harmony Korine 1997) & Y Tu Mama Tambien (Written by Alfonso & Carlos Cuaron & Directed by Alfonso Cuaron 2001).

Own photos used.

Memories...

When I think of the t-shirt, my mind flashes back to a setting somewhere in the 90’s. This is my childhood that either held placement in this era of time, or not at all. It was almost a uniform back then, jeans and a t-shirt in a blur of skinned knees and stick on tattoos. I think I grew up some time back then; at least a little. I think I learnt something back then; at least a little. I think my knees recovered some time back then; at least a little. You can beg to differ and you know what you’re probably right. I guess once the t-shirts faded in the wash, so did the uniform. Formerly those days ended and my t-shirt memory’s dissolved any outline of innocence for even an atom to join to. I soon found myself playing under trees in new scenarios where my t-shirts were washed for more privet reasons. If anything I think that in reality the innocence of our childhood is lost in a t-shirt. It once resembled something pure and clean, but now the t-shirt for me plays an almost degrading role in my wardrobe. Maybe that’s why I barley where them. I think this idea is best summed up in the 1995 film Kids, written by Harmony Korine and directed by Larry Clark.

Wiki Blah Blah

In the debate of whether to trust Wikipedia, I found this junk on thee t-shirt a tiny bit useful in considering 'Why is it called a 'T-shirt?' In saying all this, in the past year I have developed a slightly erotic love affair with wiki. We tend to spend the early hours of the morning together on awful come downs discussing and self diagnosing rare and insightful mental disorders. Irrelevant conclusions seem to part our lips and I always wonder when we may reach first base. I guess this is all a good reason to not trust any of my shitty copy and pastings from the dreadful site. We have since broken up, though still bang casually once a week. Basically I think I am too lazy to actually research anything interesting on t-shirt to date so far. As requested, some hazy days facts:

*A T-shirt (T shirt or tee) is a thin, knitted shirt which is pulled on over the head to cover most of a person's torso. A T-shirt is usually buttonless and collarless, with a round neck and short sleeves.

*The T-shirt evolved from undergarments used in the 19th century, through cutting the one-piece "union suit" underwear into separate top and bottom garments, with the top long enough to tuck under the waistband of the bottoms. T-shirts, with and without buttons, were adopted by miners and stevedores during the late 19th century as a convenient covering for hot environments.

*Named the T-shirt due to the shape of the garment's outline.

*In the early 1950s several companies based in Miami, Florida, started to decorate T-shirts with different resort names and various characters. The first company was Tropix Togs, under founder Sam Kantor, in Miami.

*Additionally, one of the most popular symbols to emerge out of the political turmoil of 1960s were T-shirts bearing the face of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.

*Since the 1980s, T-shirts have flourished as a form of personal expression.

*A life cycle study of one T-shirt brand shows that the CO₂ emissions from a T-shirt is about 4 kg -- including the growing of the cotton, manufacturing and wholesale distribution.

The Generic T-shirt...

Suicide Silence -' Disengage.'
This video not only illustrates some sexy thrashing around, but also the"generic t-shirt" in fine form. If anything it is defiantly getting a workout as the fabric is stretched in accordance to the metal that employs a liberal use of double bass drumming and blast beats. How cute!

Stretch Generics & the starting point...

I am not great with starting anything these days, let alone to finish something. I find myself at some form of a starting point; an entrance to the inter-web. Irrelevant; but reverse psychology is bliss. And so in the wise words of Sean Bateman:
"No one ever ever knows anyone.
You're not ever gonna know me.
Deal with in.
Rock and roll."

Carpathian - 'Who the fuck taught you snaps?"