Mind Killer Tee
Available in white, sizes S-XL here at £27/€32/$40 each. Get a £5 discount by quoting our exclusive discount code buy-tees5 at the checkout! The Mind Killer Tee is the latest offering from the original literary t-shirt label, The-Affair, which was featured yonks and yonks ago in my post Rendezvous With The Affair. Rather a beautiful rendering and a classic(ish) novel to boot.
“Fear is the mind-killer.” If you recognise that phrase then you’re a true sci-fi buff. I have to admit I don’t read as much sci-fi as I used to, although ever since the demise of my failed career as a sci-fi screenplay writer (don’t ask) I have trawled the outer limits of the sci-fi movie genre with something of an obsessive zeal. If it’s any good I’ve seen it, along with quite a few cinematic bombs too, one of them of course being Dune.
David Lynch‘s commercial flop was an adaptation of Frank Herbert‘s hexalogy, featuring everything I should hate, but for some reason, in this one exception, am swayed, heavily. The soundtrack is awful, with contributions from electronic music god Brian Eno, it sounds like Queen (the band not the monarch) but worse. Sting really is a truly terrible actor following the tradition of pop stars deciding they can act, Jagger, Bowie, Madonna, they never learn. Then there’s the highly confused plot that makes Zardoz look logical, and a perfect example for why condensed adaptations of literary trilogies always fail at the box office, hence the LOTR epics. Still, what a line “Fear is the mind killer”.
Pass me the spice someone.
A Rendezvous With The Affair
Back in 2007, somewhere amidst the grimy boozers and back alleys of London’s East End, began a secret exchange of ideas and broken dreams, a contract of substance over style, a pact was made between Zoltan Csaki and Dave Black. Two intellectual fashion renegades, who vowed to change the face of street wear forever, they made a promise to themselves and the neglected savoir-faire of the urban wear industry that things must change, and thus The-Affair was born. An artistic partnership that has gone from strength to strength, as each new design is release under a cloud of mysterious expectancy, raw talent and shameless egotistic aspirations bucked the trend and defied logic, creating what maybe one of the most intellectually inspiring collections I’ve ever come across.
Inspired by a plethora of influence, deep within the left-field of political and social unrest, classic style and edgy post-modern whim collide in a spectacle of high-brow t-shirts that punch and kick our complacent C21st society below the cerebral belt. Delving deeper than the usual gamut of pop reference, into the nether regions of lost kudos, salvaging the best of the worst in life, turning diatribe on its head, formulating without a formula a series of head-turning, head-scratching t-shirts designed to shock and inspire in equal measure.
Each shirt is made as a limited edition run of 200, screen printed on succulently soft American Apparel tees for a luxurious and stylish cut to suit the most discernible of t-shirt aficionados, veritably the thinking man’s t-shirt designer. read more
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