Tribute Collection by AWE

This rebel message T-shirt is a pretext for the natural obligation of human beings to resist and rise up against the unfair, the ugly and the foolish in an act of peaceful and clever disobedience which is not only morally correct, but also mandatory in order to preserve the good essence of the human heart. And it is also a tribute to Princess Margaret – an unhappy princess, more glamorous than the world allowed her to be, – and equally to famous writer, H.D. Thoreau, who advised us of the simple living in his work ”On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” and praised human conscience which he believed to prevail over the dictates of law and govern.

Tribute Collection by AWE

Humankind is torn between this vanitas vanitatum we feel perpetually and the continuous desire to overcome this feeling of futility, by replacing it with something more lasting, capable to leave a mark.

The quote, slightly altered, is a phrase frequently attributed to countess Anna de Noailles, famous French poetess of Romanian and Greek descent who chose to ignore her Romanian background, however, friend of Proust & D’Annunzio, recipient of many literary accolades, a sophisticated and ‘pampered’ figure of the French literary circles of early XX-th century who best expressed this double Sisyphean feeling in her well-known phrase.