Fashion
Not Bad, Huh?
What is the Not Bad, Huh? shirt?
Not Bad, Huh? is a shirt Sean Garschi designed and sold in 2018. A safety orange long sleeve printed with NOT BAD, HUH? FOR SOME IMMIGRANTS. across the chest and "IMMIGRANT" down the sleeve, it takes its name from Jay-Z's line on Otis and its quotation marks from Virgil Abloh.
The line
Otis, from Watch the Throne by Jay-Z and Kanye West, closes a verse with the boast "not bad huh, for some immigrants." It is a brag, not a plea, from two men counting up what they built.
The shirt takes that boast off the record and prints it on a garment, so the wearer carries the line instead of quoting it.
The design
A safety orange long sleeve with white type. The chest carries the line, small and centered: NOT BAD, HUH? FOR SOME IMMIGRANTS. One sleeve runs "IMMIGRANT" shoulder to cuff in outlined caps, the other carries a © 2018 mark.
The quotation marks follow Virgil Abloh, who used quotes at Off-White to label a thing with what everyone calls it while questioning the label. Here they wrap the word governments and headlines use to categorize a person.
The release
Designed, produced, and sold independently in 2018. The lookbook below was shot on 35mm film the same year: city frames by day, flash frames at night, one roll.
Lookbook
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