Hussein Chalayan's t-shirts - Spring-Summer 2008 Mens Fashion | Fashion Shows | Hussein Chalayan | Mens | Spring 08 | Spring-Summer 2008 | SS 08 | Womens Hussein Chalayan, the designer who has already been named Britain’s designer of the year twice despite being in his thirties, is now selling colorful t-shirts on his website. The recently launched online store offers a small selection of t-shirts which represent Chalayan’s profound sources of inspiration. Each t-shirt shows some special “thing” and there is always something to be told about these. The first t-shirt is all creamy light red and has a silhouette of a peculiar man as a print. The man who appears on the t-shirt is Mustafa Kemal Ataturk - a person most of us have never heard of, but that constitutes part of Chalayan’s cult as a Turkish born. Apparently, this is the man responsible for “building” the Turkish Republic, modernizing Turkey and introducing the Latin alphabet among other events. The back of the t-shirt exposes a brief summary of Ataturk’s biography and major works. The other garment that caught my attention was a simple looking gray t-shirt with a distinguished print. It wasn’t the t-shirt itself that drew my attention, but the description that stood beside it: “Inspired by the idea of worshiping nature instead of god is a delicate line drawing of a tree, worshiped by cupid figures” - and the powerful title Hussein granted to this item: Nature Worship. There also others t-shirt from which to choose from, all with the same profound “pasts”, and they are all available for both boys and girls. » Stavros's blog | login or register to post comments | email this page | printer friendly version Submitted by Stavros on Thu, 2007-07-05 05:38.