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Brand: W. & L. T.

Belgian, founded 1993

Designer: Walter Van Beirendonck

born 1957

Medium: Stretch cotton
Date: 2000
Country: Belgium
Credit: Gitf of Walter Van Beirendonck
This Walter Van Beirendonck shirt plays on the hard, gym body ideal that developed within gay culture during the 1980s. Beirendonck originally designed the shirt for U2 front-man Bono to wear during the band’s 1997 PopMart tour.
Object Number: 2001.23.1
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