Urban chic: green, ethical T-shirts with a message

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2007

PARIS (AFP) — Once cheap and often nasty, T-shirts are back on the streets as ethical message-carrying PC wear that comes with a sizeable price tag for the high-end urban chic.

"Absolutely everyone is making T-shirts nowadays," said Guillaume Salmon, a spokesman for Paris' trend-setting Colette concept store. "You can wear them anywhere with anything nowadays, at work or at night, like jeans -- and they allow people to express themselves."

At the Paris Pret-A-Porter salon this week, a normally frivolous fashion event, staff unusually were turned out by the organisers in T-shirts that loudly proclaimed "No More Fashion Victims."

The work of veteran British designer Katharine Hamnett, a top-end stylist turned radical activist in the 1980s, the eye-catching...