I SEA STRIPES is an ode to the Breton shirt, the 'telnyashka', the stripes that cover seamen, workers, soldiers, film directors, anarchists, role- and fashion models, political activists, architects and artists, photographers, prostitutes, paramedics and fashionistas around the globe.
I Sea Stripes!
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso is one of the best known advertisers of the Breton shirt, turning it into an icon for painters and art aficionados, leaving a legacy of photographs of himself with Breton shirt (and beret).
Like this photograph 'Picasso and the loaves', by Robert Doisneau, 1952
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