The political beliefs which first guided her business practices were soon literalized in Hamnett’s designs: In 1983, Hamnett created a silk T-shirt printed with big block letters which read: Choose Life. The move was essentially a stunt, but the shirt proved to be immensely popular. Hamnett continued designing variations on the slogan tee over the course of her career, (perhaps inadvertently) branding herself as fashion’s…
