{"id":2444498,"date":"2019-05-22T12:57:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T18:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=838796"},"modified":"2019-05-22T12:57:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T18:57:50","slug":"kurt-cobains-rolling-stone-cover-shirt-inspires-overpriced-designer-tee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/kurt-cobains-rolling-stone-cover-shirt-inspires-overpriced-designer-tee\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Cobain\u2019s \u2018Rolling Stone\u2019 Cover Shirt Inspires Overpriced Designer Tee"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fashion<\/a> world has entered an irony-saturated (post-irony?) era, what with all the Virgil Ablohs<\/a> and the camp-lite celebrations<\/a> and the \u201cI Don\u2019t Care\u201d jackets<\/a>. Adding to the fray is a new item from Vetements, an \u201cOversized Printed Cotton-Jersey T-Shirt\u201d<\/a> that rips off the one Kurt Cobain<\/a> wore on the cover of Rolling Stone<\/em> in 1992<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cCorporate magazines still suck A LOT!\u201d the $550 item of clothing screams, its tone escalated by the anarchist symbol printed in the phrase \u201cA LOT!\u201d, itself an addition that never appeared on Cobain\u2019s original T-shirt.<\/p>\n

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Nirvana<\/a> on the April 16th, 1992 cover of \u2018Rolling Stone.\u2019 Photograph by Mark Seliger<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cIn 1992, it was Mr. Kurt Cobain\u2019s way to thumb his nose at the establishment from the cover of Rolling Stone<\/em> \u2013 \u2018Corporate magazines still suck\u2019 \u2013 and in 2019 it\u2019s Mr Demna Gvasalia\u2019s way of doing the same from the Vetements runway,\u201d reads the editor\u2019s notes. \u201cThis cotton-jersey T-shirt features the statement with an addition of an anarchist symbol, and was included in the \u2018Anti-Social\u2019 portion of the show.\u201d (If you\u2019re wondering, the shirt fits into the theme of Vetements\u2019 Anti-Social fall\/winter 2019 collection by equating anti-social behavior with, erm, government surveillance and the Dark Web<\/a>. And yet none of the models wore Anonymous Guy Fawkes masks.)<\/p>\n

Not to parrot what smarter fashion writers have pointed out about, say, Dior slapping \u201cWe Should All Be Feminists\u201d on a $850 tee<\/a>, but Vetements turning Cobain\u2019s political demonstration into a product both naively misses the point and savvily meets a corporate bottom line. The company is looking to make bank, not change, whether performatively or not; if it were really preoccupied with activism, it\u2019d be addressing the widespread internal problems within the industry, like underpaid garment workers<\/a> and hazardous working conditions<\/a>. Kurt Cobain is a nice shorthand for rebellion, but don\u2019t expect to see \u201cThis Shirt Was Made Below a Living Wage\u201d on a clothing rack anytime soon.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fashion world has entered an irony-saturated (post-irony?) era, what with all the Virgil Ablohs and the camp-lite celebrations and the \u201cI Don\u2019t Care\u201d jackets. Adding to the fray is a new item from Vetements, an \u201cOversized Printed Cotton-Jersey T-Shirt\u201d that rips off the one Kurt Cobain wore on the cover of Rolling Stone in 1992. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 15:36:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}