Another cute Obama tshirt by artist Tom Sachs:
…except this one is a whopping $60 @ Collete.
So why did Tom Sachs decide to join Hello Kitty and Obama on this momentous occasion? 2 reasons:
1. Obama love. He’s an American artist.
2. Extreme Hello Kitty love. He recently created life-size sculptures of Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters that are now on exhibit in Paris.
Images courtesy of highsnobiety.
The bronze Hello Kitty statue is actually a fountain with water pouring out of her eyes:
According to Schema Magazine,
Sachs describes Hello Kitty as a “pure merchandising icon” with “an almost Buddhist sense of nothingness.”
And back in 1994, Sachs substituted Hello Kitty for the baby Jesus in a 1994 Barneys Christmas window. Pure genius!
