How to Dress for a Blind Date?
Work of art, political mouthpiece, advertising billboard or fashion fetish? Over the years Visages or faces on T-shirts have acquired a multi-faceted personality. In 1960, Che’s face and Malcolm X’s slogans appeared on the Tee, rendering it a political mouthpiece. Candidates for the presidential elections in the US were first to use the T-shirt as a campaign medium and the trend still continues. Another visage that has been popular over the years is the smiley. In the late 80s, John Galliano’s T-shirt for Dior was inspired by it and then again in 2001
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