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Katharine Hamnett

Katharine Hamnett is a British fashion designer

June 2024

  • Detail from election artwork by Katharine Hamnett that reads 'your vote is your most powerful tool'

    Anish Kapoor among artists featuring in youth vote billboard campaign

  • Katharine Hamnett with her Voting T-shirt and posters.

    ‘Stay angry as hell with our politicians’: Katharine Hamnett on politics, the planet and slogan T-shirts

November 2023

  • Kate Moss in pink vest top, leaning against a white wall with a string of coloured lights behind her
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    40 outrageous photos that changed fashion, from teenage Kate Moss to Twiggy in a mini and Lady Gaga’s meat dress

    Leigh Bowery provoked, Dior’s elegant New Look inspired, Katharine Hamnett’s slogan T-shirts challenged: these are the shots that made the world see clothes differently

September 2019

  • Katharine Hamnett

    The Q&A
    Katharine Hamnett: ‘What would improve my life? A zero-emission private jet for me and my dog’

    The designer on her dog, wanting to heal the planet and being fashion’s first whistleblower

October 2018

  • KH in Cancel Brexit IMG 5190 cropped lightened

    This much I know
    Katharine Hamnett: ‘Getting old is a licence to kill’

    The fashion designer, 71, tells Michael Segalov about running away, making her own clothes and meeting Margaret Thatcher

February 2018

  • Margaret Thatcher with fashion designer Katharine Hamnett, wearing a t-shirt with a nuclear missile protest message in 1984 and Christian Dior’s 2017 ‘We Should All Be Feminists”

    How the humble T-shirt became a fashion statement

    The history and cultural influence of the wardrobe basic is being celebrated in a new exhibition

March 2014

  • Katharine Hamnett

    From the Guardian archive
    Fashion archive: Katharine Hamnett launches British fashion week

    22 Mar 1984: Fashion observers have shared moments of despair as clashing egos won out over sense and imagination. But sense and imagination fought back. This week they triumphed

July 2013

  • Club to Catwalk: London fashion in the 80s remembered

    A new show at the V&A celebrates the creativity of the 80s clubbing and fashion scenes in London. Lauren Cochrane find out what inspired the decade's cool kids

June 2013

  • Leigh Bowery and Gerlinde Costiff at Taboo in 1985

    How London dressed up for the 1980s

    From the soft frills of the New Romantics to Katharine Hamnett's slogan T-shirts, the V&A's celebration of 80s fashion takes Kathryn Hughes on a nostalgia trip

April 2013

  • Katharine Hamnett - with her NHS not Trident T-shirt

    Saturday interview
    Katharine Hamnett: 'There's a lot of testosterone in nuclear power'

    The campaigning fashion designer is back with anti-Trident T-shirts. After attending the CND march at Aldermaston, she's more fired up than ever – threatening to form a political party
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