From Nuke The Valley to Choose Life to Frankie Say Relax — ten legendary slogan t-shirts that defined eras, started arguments, and are still available right now.
Four locations across twenty-four years. Silver walls, a shooting, bulletproof doors, and an MTV show. The complete history of Andy Warhol's Factory studios.
Why the San Fernando Valley has been Los Angeles's punchline for half a century — and why the Valley tried to secede in 2002.
Walter Hill's 1984 rock & roll fable bombed at the box office and became immortal anyway. Jim Steinman's music, Willem Dafoe's villain, and the cult that won't let go.
Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film launched Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Ralph Macchio, and Diane Lane. Here's what happened next.
From Westwood's DESTROY to Hamnett's CHOOSE LIFE to Frankie Say Relax — the history of saying everything that matters on a t-shirt.
How a fourteen-year-old's bedroom impressions became a Top 40 hit, invented a dialect, and permanently branded the San Fernando Valley as the capital of American vapidity.
In 1984, Diane Lane turned down Splash and Risky Business, starred in two box office bombs, and landed on the cover of Warhol's Interview. She was nineteen.
In November 1984, Diane Lane appeared on the cover of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine — photographed by Jean Pagliuso, painted by Richard Bernstein. The story behind the cover.
Stanford University holds thousands of Andy Warhol's contact sheets — an unseen archive of 1970s and 1980s celebrity culture captured by the most famous voyeur in art history.
The story behind the iconic 1984 photograph of Diane Lane wearing a 'Nuke The Valley' t-shirt, taken by Andy Warhol at his Factory on 860 Broadway.
The San Fernando Valley, Frank Zappa's hatred of suburbia, and the mysterious origins of the most provocative slogan tee of the 1980s.
The third Factory at 860 Broadway was where Andy Warhol photographed Diane Lane in the iconic 'Nuke The Valley' shirt. Inside the space where art, celebrity, and counterculture collided.
Frank Zappa hated the San Fernando Valley. His 1982 hit 'Valley Girl' was meant as an attack, not a tribute. The Valley never got the joke.
Walter Hill's 1984 rock and roll fable flopped at the box office and became one of the most beloved cult films of the decade. Diane Lane was at the center of it.