{"id":2764,"title":"9 ways to change the world with t-shirts","description":"Need some inspiration for today's mission? Find out how someone wore a t-shirt in bed and started a revolution, along with 8 other mind-blowing ways to change the world with t-shirts.","content":"

Need some inspiration for today's mission? Find out how someone wore a t-shirt in bed and started a revolution, along with 8 other mind-blowing ways to change the world with t-shirts.<\/p>

1. Make an impact<\/h2>

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Katharine Hamnett is famous for meeting the Prime Minister with a surprise slogan tee hidden under her coat, using the huge amount of media attention to blast her message.<\/p>

\u201cThat was almost a practical joke....I really didn\u2019t want to go: the Falklands war was appalling, the miners\u2019 strike\u2026 she was a monstrous woman! Anyway at the last minute, I got that statistic from a European opinion poll, \"58% Don\u2019t Want Pershing\", put it on a T-shirt and the rest is history.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>


2. Create action<\/h2>

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Every time you buy a t-shirt from Ecosia, they plant 20 trees. They've planted tens of millions trees around the world so far and are not planning on stopping. Check out their Teemill store to find out more.<\/a><\/p>

3. Show care<\/h2>

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Katherine Hamnett's CHOOSE LIFE tee inspired people to change their social values, protesting war, destruction and death. It hit mainstream media when WHAM! wore it during their Wake Me Up, Before You Go Go music video and performances.<\/p>

4. Raise money<\/h2>

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Keith Haring's efforts have helped so many people struggling with AIDS that he's permanently celebrated on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honour. He sold his AIDS Awareness designs on affordable t-shirts, using the money to set up the Keith Haring Foundation<\/a> which supports AIDS organisations and children's programs.<\/p>

5. Go viral<\/h2>

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War Child<\/a> (#WearItForWarChild) teamed up with some of Britain\u2019s most prominent fashion designers to create a range of campaign tees, then asked well-known celebs to post a selfie in them. The size of the celebrities' social media following made the Teemill-based<\/a> campaign go viral, helping the charity reach their goals.<\/p>

6. Be rebellious<\/h2>

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Vivienne Westwood deliberately skipped the 2012 Paralympic closing ceremony dress rehearsal so that she could completely surprise the world with her Climate Revolution campaign. Her punchy slogan tees highlighted that we had only months left to change<\/a> before global warming goes out of control. Vivienne is known for using her platform for climate awareness, in fact, these days she generally refuses to talk fashion at all.<\/p>

\"Climate change, not fashion, is now my priority.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>


7. Raise awareness<\/h2>

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In 2018 Sandra Oh made headlines when, after becoming the first-ever Asian actress to grab an Emmy nomination, her response was \"It\u2019s just an honour to be Asian\". She worked her quote to the full by making tees and wearing them on SNL. The shirts were sold as part of a fund-raiser to support the East West Players, the oldest Asian-American theatre company in the U.S.<\/p>

8. Start a revolution<\/h2>

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As shown by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, it's not about what's on your t-shirt but what you do<\/em> when you wear it. These two made world news protesting wars by wearing a plain t-shirt staying in one of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel's beds for two weeks solid, creating a new experimental form of non-violent protest called 'Bed-Ins for Peace'.<\/p>

9. Create the first circular t-shirt<\/h2>

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Every year 100 billion new items of clothing are produced while a truck full of clothing is burned, or buried in a landfill every second. Slowing fast fashion down is a good first step, but slowing it down won't stop it. Yet when we take the waste material at the end, and make new products from it at the start, it changes everything. That's what we've done.<\/p>

We've created the first ever open access circular supply chain for fashion. Our products are designed to be returned and remade, new from old, again and again and again. The circular t-shirt above is made from post-consumer waste that we've recovered from worn out products sent back to us.<\/p>

Natural, sustainable, renewable. It's the future, remade.<\/p>

Circular t-shirts are available to add to your Teemill store right now. Head to Studio<\/a> to create your world changing t-shirt today.<\/p>

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