T-shirt
Brand
W. & L. T.
(Belgian, founded 1993)
Designer
Walter Van Beirendonck
(born 1957)
2000
Stretch cotton
Gitf of Walter Van Beirendonck
Object number2001.23.1
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.
DescriptionMuscle T-Shirt; long sleeve cotton stretch knit with full scale print of male torso, graphically depicted in shades of beige, brown and black; semi fitted at waist, invisible right shoulder zipperCollections
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