Wearable, usable artifacts from the road

Maman Icon T-shirt

$48.77 NZD

There are spiders, and then there is Maman. Louise Bourgeois’ enormous bronze spider stands outside the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, more than 30 feet tall and looking like she might step over the building and scurry off into the hills. We found her first in Sydney, then again in Bilbao and, naturally, took pictures. A lot of pictures. Because that's what you do when confronting a spider the size of a small apartment.

This shirt reduces Maman to her essentials—eight impossibly long legs, a relatively tiny body, and just enough violet linework to make her recognizable without turning your chest into a museum gift shop.

Printed large on the front of a soft, comfortable tee, the spare graphic preserves the wonderfully strange proportions that make Bourgeois' sculpture so arresting in person. No Bilbao. No Guggenheim. If you know, you know. And if you don't, you're still wearing a 30-foot spider.

Which is cool.

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More details

  • Solid colors are 100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton
  • Ash color is 99% combed and ring-spun cotton, 1% polyester
  • Heather colors are 52% combed and ring-spun cotton, 48% polyester
  • Athletic and Black Heather are 90% combed and ring-spun cotton, 10% polyester
  • Heather Prism colors are 99% combed and ring-spun cotton, 1% polyester
  • Lightweight fabric (4.2 oz) 
  • Regular fit
  • Unisex sizing

Quality Guarantee & Returns

  • Quality is guaranteed. If there is a print error or visible quality issue, we'll replace or refund it.
  • Because the products are made to order, we do not accept general returns or sizing-related returns.