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Screening: Groundbreaking Graphic Tees

Mar 8, 2021
2 min read

Updated: Mar 10, 2021


a woman in a field wearing a white graphic t featuring a minimalistic drawing of a nude man dancing
La Dance

Even prior to the start of the pandemic, athleisure and hyper-casual fashions were taking the world of street style by storm. Sweatpants and sweatshirts replaced more tailored pieces and an air of relaxation and ‘chill’ defined urban attire. Today, after a full year of isolating at home, it seems everyone has reverted to a more comfortable, and generally more casual aesthetic.

While we love the current social-acceptability of casual wear for the day-to-day, we still crave some fashion expression. Fortunately, graphic t-shirts are surging with style, chicness, and boldly unapologetic creativity that can satiate even our fiercest fashion desires. There is no shortage of brands offering show stopping street ware but here we'll feature just two of our favorites.


a man wearing a graphic t-shirt standing in front of green plants
Paradice Palase x Seren Morey Edition

Everpress and Repostees are companies devoted to sharing an ever-changing collection of limited edition t-shirts that are dripping with coolness.


  • a white graphic tshirt
    Noice
  • an ivory graphic tshirt
    Confused
  • a white graphic tshirt
    Rainbow Hotel
  • a white tshirt with the text 'allergic club what doesn't kill you makes you feel worse' with a list of common allergens and an illustration of cartoon foods dancing on a man laying down
    Allergic Club
  • a white t shirt printed with two illustrated bao buns
    XIAO LONG BAO FRIENDS
  • a white t-shirt that says "i", "we", "us", "you" with a faded blue heart
    World We Love You

London based Everpress is the kind of swoon-worthy company we dream about. In their own words,


Here you’ll find a curated emporium of original designs with the tools to manufacture, promote, sell and distribute your own creations; a genuine alternative to the tyranny and wastefulness of conventional retail.
We believe creative originality cannot thrive without independence. For us, it’s about You: what You know is right for you; what You know is right for the world. We’re on a mission to empower creative independence in a commercial world. (1)

  • a black tshirt with the black text reading "endless feelings" behind pink text in arabic
    Endless Feelings Lebanon
  • a dark olive tshirt with an illustration of an egyptian looking red hound in front of a vase with palm leaves and a geometric sun
    Hound
  • a burgundy crew neck sweatshirt with white text reading "Destroy Before Reading*"
    Destroy Before Reading
  • a bottle green tshirt with an illustration of hundreds of pigeons eating scattered french fries
    Lunch of the Day
  • a dark olive graphic tshirt featuring an orange line drawing with japanese text and a sci-fy deconstructed asian temple below an open portal with rays
    SOMIIMASEN

We told you they were visionary! In essence, Everpress welcomes a vast community of gifted designers and eagerly works with them to create and share epic t-shirts. The variety of designs is a testament to the diversity of the artists. From minimalist text to maximalist psychedelic abstractions, there are t-shirts at Everpress that will suit even the wildest styles. Some designs benefit international charities, others are printed as limited edition art pieces, but all are authentically original. We just bought ourselves the ‘Lunch of the Day’ t-shirt because who doesn’t want a shirt featuring a hypnotic swarm of illustrated pigeons eating a scattering of stale french fries (we don’t know that they’re stale but the New Yorkers amongst us are fully convinced that they're rubberized and upsettingly cold!).


  • a white tshirt with a black abstracted illustration of a man dancing with a crocodile and text reading 'TANGO'
    Tango

While Everpress focuses on creation and distribution, Repostees takes on a billboard marketing role, proudly promoting t-shirt releases from brands large and small. Everyday on Instagram, Repostees shares available shirts, directing us to designers and brands that we may never have discovered otherwise. Take the female P.O.C run Australian street ware brand, Smile and Wave. We are obsessed with their multicultural and devastatingly in vogue designs featuring everything from Chinese-inspired printed dragons to the flora and fauna of Australia—including the pleasant absurdity that is the platypus. Without Repostees, we likely wouldn't have found Smile and Wave and our lives would certainly be worse-off for it. Repostees offers a constant stream of ultramodern t-shirts that leaves us ceaselessly inspired.

  • a white tshirt with an illustration of a white snake and black chinese text reading 'Smile and wave'
    Snake Stamp
  • a black hoodie with white embroidered line drawings of the flora and fauna of Australia
    Chalk Hoodie
  • a black tshirt.Front has a combination of screenprinting and embroidery. Printed is the word 微笑 (smile) opposite a Platypus World embroidery (red text reads 'platypus world').
    Platypus World
  • a white tshirt with an illustration of an alligator eating a hand with text reading 'Fuck Around and Find Out'
    Fuck Around and Find Out
  • a longsleeved white tshirt with a surrealist leaf with wholes that look like faces and purple text reading 'Temporary'
    Temporary
  • a white tshirt with a a read surrealist illustration and text reading 'this m-orning he hit his head on a cloud and never felt happier'
    Happy Head Hitter Tee

So trade your tired tracksuit for a t-shirt from Everpress or Repostees and feel yourself transform into a stay-at-home style icon!

Looking for more t-shirt inspiration? Check out these phenomenal designs from Rat City Roller Derby, Tochtli Wear, Esther Perdandt, and Paradice Palase (who also released a fantastic tee collaboration with Seren Morey that we included earlier in the feature)!


  • a black t-shirt with a white 'Rat City Roller Derby' logo
    Rat City Roller Derby
  • a black tshirt featuring a white 'la cultura cura' logo
    Tochtli La Cultura Cura
  • a black tshirt with a variation of hash/tally marks for the number 13
    Esther Perbandt
  • a black tshirt featuring 8 watercolor sparrows
    Paradice Palase x Erin ONeill

 
 
 

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