Magculture hosts T-shirt legend Hamnett

. The Observer‘s Sunday supplement pays homage to Katharine Hamnett in 1985 (Dec 29) Magculture is hosting a talk on 19 September about political T-shirts. ‘Making Trouble: 40 Years of Political Tees’ brings activist designer Katharine Hamnett together with i-D editor Steff Yotka and DJ-come-T-shirt-hustler Jonny Banger. Hamnett’s in-your-face designs with huge, black, sans-serif type on white tees broke new ground and were the craze of 1984. They were picked up everywhere, but particularly as a reaction to the dark side of Thatcherism. Regular readers may have seen my 2020 post about Hamnett’s influence. Nick Logan’s The Face magazine cited her as the most influential designer of 1984 and The Observer newspaper’s Sunday supplement followed suit a year later. The 36-year-old made her name as a firebrand in 1984 when she wore one of her designs against ballistic missiles – similar to the weapons being used by Russia to cut through Ukraine’s defences today – to meet Margaret Thatcher at…