Marilyn Monroe 'Shattered' T-shirt

A 1980 example of Westwood and McLaren's Marilyn 'Shattered' T-shirt — a black-and-white photographic portrait of Marilyn Monroe framed within a thin black border on white cotton jersey, with the word shattered set in lowercase typewriter typography directly beneath the image. Monroe's lips, picked out in red, are the only chromatic accent against the otherwise monochrome face.

The portrait itself is unaltered — the conceptual work is done entirely by the single word printed below. The design ran through the late-Seditionaries period at 430 King's Road as the shop moved toward its Worlds End rebrand at the end of 1980, and operates within the broader Westwood-McLaren strategy of pulling pop iconography out of its commercial register through a single textual intervention.

25 13/16 × 13 9/16 inches (65.5 × 34.5 cm)