Fantastic bargain for vintage shirts (irony)

[Fastuni]

1000 Euros for four plain 1950-60's shirts? Sure... it's "Design" and "Art" after all.

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Straub-Manuf...-selten-Besonderheit-Stuttgart-/380610415764?

 

[herringbonekid]

art ? i can't read German; what's the gist of the blurb ?

 

[Fastuni]

It seems that these shirts were produced 1988-1996 (so not even remotely vintage ) by some guy named Rene Straub. The seller quotes the text from a Zurich design exhibition where other shirts (some with prints) by Straub were shown. The text is some pseudo-intellectual blather about these shirts being in "twilight of art and design" "surface and identity" and so on and so on. :suspicious:

 

[herringbonekid]

don't underestimate the selling power of pretentious twaddle.