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$20 Organic Tees, This Friday Only: Fashion Loves People Offers Online-Only Special Pricing to Mark the Release of its Latest Tee Design
This Friday, February 12, Fashion Loves People will mark down the prices of three tee styles to celebrate the launch of its newest tee design. The new design features a vintage fashion illustration inspired by timeless design house Halston, as well as a complementary graphic printed on both front and back of the shirt. The new design has been printed in two colorways: rose/tangerine and blue-gray/turquoise.
The illustration, sketched in 1971 by J. Kirk Davis and now pulled from the archives and printed for the first time, was inspired by the Halston runways that were defining the fashion of the time. Cued by the lines of the subject’s popped collar, it is teamed with a cross-cultural graphic of inverted triangles, a shape that can be found in antique weavings from various cultures, from Afghani to Native American. These cross-cultural graphics have been a recent interest of the designers, Janette Crawford and Heather Hale. About the similarities of patterns across world cultures throughout time, Crawford wrote at FashionLovesPeople.com, “It’s kind of like we’re all more alike than we realize, and we always have been.”
This design joins a first tee design that features a 1968 fashion illustration, also by Davis, an illustrator and consultant living in Kansas City, MO.
The line’s 100% organic tees are manufactured by Alternative Apparel, ethically made in Peru, featuring a feminine fit and soft scoop neck. They are screen printed with water-based eco-friendly inks in the U.S. Tags are custom printed with a “Fashion Loves People ♥s Kirk” insignia.
One dollar from the sale of each tee is donated to Not For Sale, an organization fighting human trafficking in the U.S. and abroad, which Crawford has personally supported for years.
Fashion Loves People is both an ethical fashion blog, founded by Crawford in 2007, and the organic tee line described above. The blog’s aim is to help shoppers make smarter and more informed decisions about the fashions they buy. The fashions and ideas profiled on the site all support and benefit people — those who manufacture, those who farm, those who dye, those who design and those who will inherit the earth next.
This second illustration in the line was my first favorite out of Kirk’s portfolio. He drew it in 1971, inspired by the Halston runways that have continued to define fashion as we know it.
The complementary graphic on this shirt was inspired by, you guessed it, my recent interest in cross-cultural weaving patterns. When we started our design process back in December, Heather suggested “something like the geometry you’ve been obsessed with.” Perfect. The inverted triangles mimic the lines of the popped collar in the drawing, and this general shape is one of the most common and distinctive I’ve seen, found in antique weavings from Afghani to Native American cultures.
We printed the shirts in two colorways: rose/tangerine (which is in limited run) and blue-gray/turquoise (the latter of which happens to be Pantone’s Color of 2010).
Once again, the 100% organic cotton tee is manufactured by Alternative Apparel, ethically made in Peru. The feminine fit has a soft scoop neck. They are screen printed with water-based eco-friendly inks in the U.S., and tags are custom printed with a “Fashion Loves People ♥s Kirk” insignia.
One dollar from the sale of each tee is donated to Not For Sale, an organization fighting human trafficking in the U.S. and abroad.
Signed/editioned prints of the illustration are also available.
Thanks, everyone, for your support on this venture so far. I hope you love this tee as much as I do!
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February 10th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
[...] For any of you who haven’t been able to snag a tee yet, I hope this can be your chance! The rose-colored tees will be available on a pre-sale basis, as we sold out of them Saturday. The sale will last from midnight Thursday night to midnight Friday night CST, February 12 only. For more detail on the shirts, read here. [...]
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