Save Anna and the T-Shirts
A joke about Anna Wintour went around the world. Then it became a label.
No brief. A rumor, a screen and a white T-shirt.
Fashion satire, drawn by hand, printed in Brooklyn.
In 2008 the rumor was that Anna Wintour was leaving Vogue. I screen-printed her face on a T-shirt with two words under it, SAVE ANNA, and sent it to a few friends in fashion. It ended up in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar and The New York Times. One shirt turned into a label: fashion satire, drawn by hand, printed in Brooklyn and worn by Madonna and Miley Cyrus.
Save Anna
In which a joke goes around the world.
In the clubs
The shirt went out at night first: masks on the dance floor, club stages, and a runway show at Big Top in New York in 2010, under the projection.
The graphic
Built like a punk flyer and finished like pop art: the portrait pushed to a hard black halftone for the screen, the name set underneath like a protest banner, then silkscreened by hand.
Press
Vogue, Vanity Fair, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, The Guardian, Racked, Fashion Television, NOW Magazine and The New York Times, from Germany to Korea.
The classics
In which pop icons go on white cotton.
01 Graphics
Magazine covers, mugshots and pop icons, drawn and screened on white cotton.
02 Worn
The same graphics, on people.
03 Film
The Fall 2009 collection film, and a day on set.
04 GIFs
Made for the feed.
Tokyo
In which the label lands in Harajuku.
Japan
A limited capsule with Addition Adelaide and International Gallery BEAMS, a launch party for Tokyo’s fashion underground and windows for the BEAMS Harajuku flagship. My first partnership in Japan.
MadMaus
In which icons become mice.
Pop icons recast as mice, each inside a seal spelling out their own name. Warhol, Madonna, Bowie, Lagerfeld. Launched at Patricia Field in New York and Hudson’s Bay in Toronto.
Pop Cult Club
In which fashion becomes a religion.
A collection about a club of kids who worship at the cult of fashion. All-over prints, Renaissance saints and one-liners: I Have More Followers Than You. The Bags Under My Eyes Are Prada. In Times of Need I Pray to Saint Laurent.
The presentation
In which the tees walk.
T-shirts are one of the only garments that get better the more you wash them and wear them. They develop stories.
Collaborations
In which the prints go out with friends.
T-shirts, prints and lettering made with and for other people: hand painted pieces for Madonna, scandal illustrations for NYLA in London, collections for the retailer Ona Saez, a runway for Amanda Lepore and prints for Geil magazine in Berlin.
Madonna
A series of hand painted T-shirts and boots made for Madonna, for music videos and tour.
NYLA, London
With NYLA Boutique, a series of illustrations of famous scandals, presented during London Fashion Week.
Ona Saez
CLS Classic and Pop Cult Club prints turned into leggings, T-shirts, skirts and tanks for the retailer Ona Saez, including a Pop Cult Club collection for its 25th anniversary.
Amanda Lepore
Honoring Amanda Lepore, New York City’s fashion icon: a runway at Carnival in pieces inspired by her.
Geil, Berlin
Save the Males: prints made with photographer Pieter Henkett for Geil magazine in Berlin.
New for 2026
In which Divine gets electric.
Lady Liberty in Knicks blue and orange, and Divine in electric yellow. Drawn by hand, signed like everything else.
