©/®/™ Warhol x Uniqlo T-Shirts

Uniqlo, you know my email conversion rate, and I’m literally inside your linen shirt right now. And The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., I will always be grateful for that AWP award that one time. So know that I am coming from a place of love when I say, “‘ANDY WARHOL TRANSFORMATION Discover the collection that traces the sources of Warhol’s inspiration by exploring the everyday images that inspired his iconic works.’ WTF?”

a headless white guy modeling a black uniqlo tshirt printed with handwritten instructions for screenprinting patricia caulfield's photo of four hibiscus flowers next to a warhol painting of same, standing against a blurry green and yellow background that, I suspect, is based the warhol flowers painting itself. a mechanically produced signature of andy warhol, probably from the cash print, or a rubber stamp or something, is superimposed on the figure at the bottom of the image, from a uniqlo email campaign
Did you forget to ask Elaine?

And the image is a workup of the screen from Modern Photography editor Patricia Caulfield’s magazine spread of hibiscus photos, which she successfully sued you for using?

a screenshot of the banner on the uniqlo store for the warhol transformation tshirt collection. the banner is black with a digital collage of warhol selfportraits, including a photobooth strip of black and white headshots from 1964 flanked by a green screenprinted portrait made from one of the goofier sunglasses warhol photobooth pictures, and a yellow self portrait made from a more butch warhol picture. the mechanical andy warhol signature with a couple of printing artifacts is across the top in white, and appears now to be the warhol foundation's go-to logotype for licensed merchandise. there is a ©/®/™ claim by the foundation along the bottom of the banner, though what elements it refers to is unclear, since none of the original images here is likely under copyright individually. maybe they want the whole transformational collage
©/®/™ The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

And on the collection banner is one of the self-portraits made with the same photobooth picture as the Red Self Portrait Bruno B that Warhol put on the cover of Rainer Crone’s 1972 catalogue raisonné, the lawsuit over the deauthentication of which led to the dissolution of the Andy Warhol Authentication Board?

How could you put this Warhol Greatest IP Lawyer-trolling Hits collection together and not include the cover of Vanity Fair’s special commemorative issue, The Genius of Prince?

a digital collage created as fair use critique and transformational unique art object, of a young asian lady with a dark bob modeling an off-white uniqlo tshirt over which has been superimposed an image of the cover of the vanity fair commemorative magazine the genius of prince, which features a warhol screenprint painted portrait of prince in black on orange, based on lynn goldsmith's photo of the musician, which condé nast licensed for the first publication of a painting warhol used it for, but not, inexplicably, for this posthumous one? how condé nast skated out of the copyright infringement lawsuit in this case is baffling; ten years on, the whole case is still baffling. and yet, there's no t-shirt about it? why?
©/®/™ T-shirts are the new Conceptual T-shirts: a transformational critique reporting fair use mockup of an art object I will not produce