Vive L'Anarchie' T-shirt

A Fifth Column screen-printed T-shirt from the late-Seventies and early-Eighties window of British DIY print culture. Featured is the long-running French and continental European anarchist slogan, VIVE L'ANARCHIE, rendered in multi-color splatter typography and repeated across both front and back. Fifth Column was the London screen-printing collective whose hand-pulled output ran through the wider punk and post-punk independent-design network of the period, producing some of the era's most distinctive T-shirt graphics outside the formal Westwood-McLaren retail line. The shirt sits inside the broader anarchist visual vocabulary punk had absorbed from earlier political agitation and re-circulated through music, fashion and underground print.

26 × 14 3/16 inches (66 × 36 cm)