Pride Interview T-Shirts By Farfetch BEAT 002 and Tabboo!

Pride Interview T-Shirts By Farfetch BEAT 002 and Tabboo!

Farfetch announces the second release from Farfetch Beat, the new concept retail series that introduces exclusive product experiences to an international audience.

For Farfetch Beat 002 and to celebrate Pride, Interview is bringing back their iconic t-shirts for a commemorative limited edition collection created with Tabboo!, the legendary artist and drag performer of New York City’s East Village 1980s art scene. The collection comprises of three t-shirts featuring original artworks illustrated by Tabboo! paying homage to Andy Warhol, Candy Darling and Divine.

Farfetch Beat utilises an unconstrained and ad-hoc release schedule made possible by Farfetch’s unique ability to give customers access to luxury products, brands, services, and a community of the best curators in the world which cannot be found elsewhere in luxury fashion.

I was recently reminded of New York City’s subversive and pioneering avant-garde queer scene watching The Andy Warhol Diaries on Netflix – and the birth of Interview magazine during that influential time. What Mel [Ottenberg] is doing with the magazine today feels so true to all of that for a new era. We’re really happy to bring Interview’s iconic, collectible t-shirts back while paying tribute to its gay iconography. It’s exactly the kind of cultural homage and attitude Farfetch Beat is all about celebrating.”

– Ronojoy Dam, Global Director, Brand & Culture

In the three designs, Tabboo!, whose work appears in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, pays homage to queer luminaries, including the magazine’s founder Andy Warhol, the John Waters muse and drag legend, Divine, and Candy Darling, the transgender icon and Warhol superstar.

I’m proud to edit Interview, which often feels like the gayest magazine on earth. We certainly have one of the gayest, queerest histories of any publication, ever. Continuing a legacy of celebrating LGBTQIA+ talent nearly 53 years after our start is important to us. Tabboo! is an incredible artist and friend, and he has a long history of creating with Interview. He also has the most iconic handwriting of anyone I know. So we asked Tabboo! to draw his own adaptation of our Andy Warhol’s Interview logo from the mid-1970s, and to pay homage to two of Interview’s favorite queer legends of all time: Candy Darling and Divine.”

– Mel Ottenberg, Editor-in-Chief, Interview Magazine