They started out as a way to make political statements, before becoming vehicles for wry one-liners. Slogan T-shirts have been both popular and powerful since the Sixties, and right now celebrities are wearing them to make both serious political statements as well as irony-laced social commentary.
Last weekend, Babygirl star Harris Dickinson premiered his directorial debut, Urchin, at Cannes Film Festival. The film follows a homeless Londoner who is trying to get clean and turn his life around, and Dickinson shared a photo of himself at Cannes wearing a T-shirt that read “Living on the streets is not a lifestyle choice Suella”, on the front, while on the back it says, “It’s a sign of failed government policy”.
