During the Urban Culture Fashion Fest last month held in Mexico City, we profiled a number of top T-shirt graphic-inspired companies including No Problem, AntiFashion, Dirty & Miserable, and Mood. In part 1 of 2 stories on T-shirt graphics coming from new designers from Mexico City, we take a look at Dirty & Miserable and AntiFashion.
Dirty & Miserable has a “Paper Rad” appeal in that the 3 designers love to use a heavy dose of bright colors patterned all together creating wild mosaics. They mix up ‘80’s and ‘90’s rave motifs with old-school PacMan characteristics, plus horror flicks such as the head of Frankenstein in red and black striped patterns which results in a collection with a theme, but culturally inspired from many ideas and time periods. Their hoodies, T-shirts, military-inspired jackets, and all-over print designs are what they consider urban-inspired, but as Abraham Vequiz explained, “Its more punk and ‘80’s rave inspired than hip-hop,” which is what makes the brand’s graphics stand-out. One of the most popular mixed graphics is the 4-square Andy Warhol-like designs using bright colors and the headshots of a punker mixed with Mexican wrestlers.
