The annual FAT Limited T-shirt Exhibition turned ugly this year when a bearded man lost some vital fluids. Maybe it was just another irreverent gesture to trendy kids everywhere - (take that! - Some broken glass and a dollop of blood on the floor, that is). Prior to the gore and glass, it was all posing and peering, naturally. On the 2nd of September at Block Projects on Flinders Lane, swigs were taken from Bulmers and Brothers Cider bottles, and tall glasses of Jameson and Dry were putting the pretty faces in good, um, spirits. So many people to speak to, so many people to ignore - it could have been easy to forget that we were there to support the Australian designers who created one off T-shirts for the 'Apple Of My Eye' exhibition. The t-shirts from the clever kids behind labels Bassike, Beat Poet, The Collectif and Ffixxed (among others) ranged from the cheeky and disparaging to the deft and charming, each one adorning a green or yellow velvet mannequin (how patriotic!). The exhibition was accompanied by music from Roman Wafers + Wilham. It didn't take long before the mannequins were being violated and the cute girls started an impromptu dance floor.
I left, disappearing into the dark night with a belly full of free cider, wondering if the bearded man received any medical attention. I was also left wondering if we were all too focused on weaving our way through the crowd instead of looking at the t-shirts. Unless that was the point of the thing? I don't know - but I was definitely glad to be leaving cut-free and surrounded by real friends, not mannequins.
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