Peace & Anarchy Insulated Shirt

Cropped and remade Levi’s sherpa-lined denim shirt jacket with dyed, painted, and hand-printed interventions.

Category: Remade

File under: #AnarchoPunk, #DIYPrinting, #ProtestGraphics, #PostConsumerTextiles

Description

Levi’s sherpa-lined denim shirt jacket from the 1990s, cropped to the waist and reworked through multiple surface and structural interventions. The garment has been dyed with a high-visibility yellow wash, then overpainted and stenciled, producing uneven saturation and visible layering across the denim.

A fractured version of the Crass symbol appears at the center of the garment. The graphic references work by Crass and designer David King, where anti-war imagery was circulated through deliberately reduced, repeatable forms. Here, the symbol is altered rather than reproduced, with wear, misalignment, and fading treated as part of its function.

Red floral patches printed from hand-cut blocks are applied repeatedly across the surface. Each is stamped individually, resulting in slight variation between impressions. The shirt’s original structure remains legible: heavy cotton denim, sherpa lining, and workwear construction intended for warmth and durability.

The garment brings together insulation, protest graphics, and visible repair without resolving them into a single statement. Its surface records accumulated labor rather than a finished image.