Fashion Designers Rally To Support Hillary Clinton — Here’s How You Can Too (And With Style!)
Normally, I don’t use Sicka Than Average as a forum in which to express my political views, but there’s way too much at stake in the upcoming presidential elections to remain silent. I won’t mince words: the idea of Donald Trump presiding over this nation terrifies me. He’s shown time and time again that he’s a bigoted, xenophobic (his proposed Muslim ban, anyone?), racist (his comments about Mexicans made my blood boil), hateful misogynist (his vicious critiques of Megyn Kelly, his tweets about Ariana Huffington being “unattractive,” when he suggested women who seek abortions should be “punished”). His entire electoral campaign centers on fear-mongering tactics, factually inaccurate claims (such as when he suggested President Obama created ISIS), and appealing to humanity’s basest instincts (the Telegraph amassed a pretty comprehensive list of his sexist remarks, which you can read here). Never in my wildest dreams did I think he’d emerge as the GOP’s presidential nominee and, now that he is, I’m petrified. To me, the best choice for president should be obvious — not just because of Donald Trump being so grossly inadequate as a candidate, but because Hillary Clinton has all the makings of a true leader: the education, the experience, the diplomacy, the foreign affairs experience, the commitment to women’s rights and LGBT rights, the passion to enforce stricter gun laws, the desire to reassess our criminal justice system and make police officers accountable for the reckless shootings of innocent young men, the strength to command our nation during difficult times, and so forth. To say #ImWithHer would be an understatement.
Apparently, I’m not alone. Fashion designers like Tory Burch, Marc Jacobs, Jason Wu, Diane Von Furstenberg, Joseph Altazurra, Georgina Chapman, Tanya Taylor, and Pamela Love have all proclaimed their support for Hillary Clinton — not just through interviews, campaign donations, or rally speeches, but through their crafts, by creating pro-Hillary T-shirt designs to be sold in her campaign store. The T-shirts have been popping up during the last couple of months, as we get closet to the presidential elections — and yes, they’re amazing.
Jason Wu’s T-shirt design ($45 at Shop.HillaryClinton.com), shown at top, features all the states in the union — albeit scrambled around like puzzle pieces — coming together to “fight for Hillary.” The fact that each state is in a different position than it would normally be on a map seems to be a call for us to rethink the status quo, to imagine different possibilities. The Tory Burch T-shirt design ($45 at Shop.HillaryClinton.com), shown second from top, pays tribute to Hillary Clinton’s 1995 speech at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. At the time, Clinton was the First Lady of the United States and, as a longtime feminist, she dove into the world of diplomacy and rallied for women’s rights on a global scale. While addressing the many injustices women continue to face — among them China’s one-child policy and dowry deaths — Clinton famously uttered the words, “Women’s rights are human rights.” Tory Burch ‘s design, then, pays homage to this powerful speech and highlights the decades Clinton has spent fighting for women’s rights.
Diane Von Furstenberg’s T-shirt design ($45 at Shop.HillaryClinton.com), shown last above, constitutes a more straight-forward statement of support, with the words, “Proud to support Mme President” written in script along the front of the T-shirt, a woman holding up a banner with Hillary’s campaign logo sketched next to these words. The Joseph Altazurra T-shirt design (($45 at Shop.HillaryClinton.com), shown third above, features a riff on Hillary’s campaign logo — the “H” with the arrow pointing sideways — by adding black-and-white horizontal and diagonal stripes that give the piece an Op Ed vibe.
If you want to voice your support for Hillary, you can do so in countless ways and scooping up one of these T-shirts is one of them — a very stylish option, at that!
Hopefully, these tees will become as ubiquitous as the Obama “Hope” tees were 8 years ago!
