In the mid 80s, while working at various magazines like Vogue,Vanity Fair and Paper, I designed and printed t-shirts for my company RePop. I’ve recently stumbled upon several vintage shots that feature those shirts. Straight To Hell: The Manhattan Review of Unnatural Actswas a little ‘zine edited by my friend Victor Weaver. I produced a show for STH at The Pyramid which each week featured many luminaries of the day; John Waters, Kenneth Anger, Quentin Crisp, Taylor Mead, Jackie Curtis, etc. I made a shirt to sell which has become sort of collectible.
Later, I did another show, Bad Boy, after Victor and I had a falling out. The title of the show came from an Eric Fischl painting that had I had just included in a layout at Vanity Fair. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato would DJ those monthly parties at Danceteria which featured naked go-go dancers from the Times Square theater The Gaiety (where Madonna later shot scenes from her book Sex.) Anyway, those days are long gone but I love the fact that these shirts in a small way, immortalize that time.
Andy Warhol, Unidentified Man, gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Tseng Kwong Chi photo of Keith Haring, Bad Boy, Bordeaux France, 1985
Eric Fischl, Bad Boy, 1981