![]() Making statements of causes you care about on your T-shirt is very 2017. ![]() These T-shirts seem, at first glance, to contrast with the “woke” movement’s impact on fashion. “If they like it, I don’t have a problem with it.” “I don’t think it matters if someone is wearing a band T-shirt but doesn’t know the band,” she says. She has “listened to some of the music but I also like the style and look of the logo.” Kelly isn’t a purist though. Iman Kelly, 19, is in a Kiss sweatshirt from Primark. She says she likes them because “they’re part of a new era indie look” and that she would buy another one “if it was on trend”. She has four band T-shirts including an AC/DC one. She says she has “heard of the band but couldn’t tell you any of their songs”. Nicole Green, who is 17 and from Lincolnshire, is wearing a Guns N’ Roses T-shirt. They have become something of a wardrobe staple for the Topshop girl.” This is backed up by shoppers around the Oxford Circus store on a weekday afternoon. Topshop’s head of design Mo Riach says the AC/DC is their bestseller and that band T-shirts “epitomise that cool, laid-back, effortless look. ![]() Voletta Wallace, Biggie’s mother, was quick to denounce it on Instagram, posting an image of the T-shirt with a cross through it. On the front were designs that resembled T-shirts for Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls and Ozzy Osbourne, with selfies of the sisters superimposed on top. This was writ large earlier this month when Kendall and Kylie Jenner released a series of T-shirts on their Kendall + Kylie website. ![]() What does it mean when something so aligned with an alternative point of view – one that prioritises your love of your favourite band as primary statement to the world – is co-opted by fashion? This year the humble band T-shirt has become something of a battleground between generations, where ideas of authenticity, image and symbolism are at loggerheads. The kind of purchase once seen on merchandise stalls at gigs and market stalls in Camden Lock has gone mass. And at stores including Topshop, H&M, Primark and Forever 21, T-shirts for bands including AC/DC, Metallica, the Rolling Stones and Bon Jovi. A tour around the high street this summer would uncover a few standout trends. ![]()
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