旧图案T恤回潮：从旧货店淘来的个人风格宣言

My passion for graphic tees can be traced back to a very specific video: Camille Rowe’s British Vogue closet tour. When the clip first made its way online in 2016, I was still an impressionable teenager, with a malleable sense of style and a limitless supply of time to dedicate to YouTube.

Is it an exaggeration to say that this episode changed my life? Maybe. But even so, it instilled some basic guidelines in me that I still reference today, like the indispensability of a good pair of vintage Levi’s, using a cool jacket to elevate an otherwise simple outfit, and letting a great graphic tee do the talking.

Vogue’s Favorite Graphic Tees:

Inspired by Rowe’s eclectic collection of graphic tees, I wasted no time building my own. My love for classic rock still in its early stages, I spent my weekends as a teen scouring Montreal’s vintage shops for vintage band tees, most of which I still wear today. Now a cornerstone of my personal style, I usually pair them with jeans and ballet flats, but I also love the bold contrast that comes from juxtaposing them with an animal print, or something otherwise highly-textured.

The best designs to me are funny, personal, or a bit of both. There’s nothing like sifting through racks of sun-faded graphic tees and stumbling upon something so impossibly specific to your life that it feels like it was created just for you, despite the fact that mere moments earlier, you had no idea such an item could exist.

On and off the runways, vintage-inspired graphic tees are having a moment, too. New York designer and 2026 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund runner-up Emily Dawn Long’s styles are released in drops that instantly sell out; Long has knack for coming up with clever phrases like “Take Off Your Clothes” or “Spoiled Boys” that have cultivated an ‘IYKYK’ fashion status.

The unbothered cool of a hard-to-come-by graphic tee has transcended off-duty style, as well: Actress Daisy Edgar-Jones recently sported two vintage Chloé tees on her Sense & Sensibility press tour. And Zoë Kravitz, another style icon whose graphic tee looks I’ve been emulating since she starred in the tragically short-lived Hulu series High Fidelity (where the costume department actually incorporated items from her own closet), is regularly photographed in something enviably cool.

Nowadays, I do most of my graphic tee shopping online, with eBay as my go-to source for all things quirky and personal. (When the Montreal Canadiens were in the NHL playoffs last year, I became fixated on finding unique team merch, homing on specific keywords to narrow down the search.) Depop is another favorite, where my feed is currently filled with my latest obsession—Denim Dungarees, a Japanese children’s brand founded in the ’90s that creates Americana and military-inspired tees.

While I maintain that the best graphic tees are vintage, there are still some really cool vintage-inspired ones to be found online. Re/Done, for example, is a great resource for cheeky texts, as is LA-based Mother. A few of my favorites—some vintage, some not—below.

Reformation

x Alexa Chung slogan tee

Emily Dawn Long

Torino Cobra ringer tee

Daydreamer

Queen graphic burnout T-shirt

Junk Food Clothing

Strawberry Fields Forever tee