Objects Bill Cunningham Graphic Print T-shirt by Sacai
£195
‘Fashion is the armour to survive the reality of everyday life’ Bill Cunningham once said, and now those words are emblazoned on a t-shirt, made by Sacai, the influential luxury Japanese fashion house. The late American fashion photographer – who designed women’s hats before embarking on his career with a camera – is celebrated for his On the Street series for the New York Times, an early precursor to street style blogs, and the first time the paper began to run pictures without the subject’s permission. But as well as publishing his pictures, Cunningham wrote fashion criticism too – interrogating the scope and place of fashion in the wider culture, and changing many people’s perception of it. That’s why this t-shirt feels so perfectly apt for the photographer – his wisdom imparted in words, and words as images.
