Above, Michael Pitt, Hollywood actor (remember him as Tommy Gnosis in 2001's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"? Or as Kurt Cobain in that b0ring Gus Van Sant movie? Or as the dorky American guy who does the hot French girl in Bernardo Bertolucci's great The Dreamers?), models his UNIQLO t-shirt for creepy/inexhaustible/I’ll-show-u-mine-if-u-show-me-urs photographer Terry Richardson [attn: NSFW site may not be safe for work]. We got bored of Mr. Richardon after like the 100th full frontal pen0r shots and horrible tattoos, although we have undying respect for his late, talented father.
Michael Pitt was shot in a design from the signed series of UNIQLO t-shirts, with his featuring the CD cover of Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer’s Fall 2005 release of violin solos for J.S. Bach’s sonatas and partitas [see image below]. The series also offers a t-shirt by the late Dr. Osamu Tezuka, prolific manga artist, best known for Astro Boy, and Araki, Japanese photographer of all things erotic.
UNIQLO was designed in 1984 by Tadashi Yanai and inaugurated with the launch of his first store in Hiroshima. When OC is in NYC, she always visits their massive 36,000 square foot store in SoHo to browse the selvedge denim and GAP-esque basics. She also has Japan-based friends who keep her alert on the latest Tokyo coolness & send over via EMS -- the truly awesome Japan Post that is like everything that the appalling Italian postal service will never, ever be -- what's not 2 b found here in the old West).
