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Lollapalooza Style: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs t-shirt design contest

Cat Marnell

Once again I found myself at a festival with Ms. Karen O and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs over the weekend--no photo-stalking this time, though. Now THIS is cool: the band is looking for "ART STARS" to design a new t-shirt for them (the deadline is July 22, P.S.). The winner will have their print sold on tour and online. FUN.

If I were to design a shirt for this band, I'd skip trying to win on artistic merit (due to my vacuous aesthetic imagination) and instead go straight for controversy, i.e. turning an old Iron Maiden t-shirt into one that reads like this: "BRING YOUR DAUGHTER...TO THE SLAUGHTER: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs!" Or you could just take a marker and scrawl "THE YEAH YEAH YEAHS!" across any of those "sad Kurt" shirts popular with middle-schoolers of the mid-nineties--you go straight to hell*, but it's Karen O., man! She's weird! And you know SHE'S picking this winner, not the dudes. Please. (Less controversial idea: "THE YEAH YEAH YEAHS" on the front, "I AM QUEENS BOULEVARD" on the back. So uncool it's cool?)

What's YOUR irreverent shirt idea?

-Cat Marnell, associate beauty editor

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