Sovereign, Unbothered — Eartha Kitt — Crewneck Sweatshirt — Vintage Black — CMD&C

Product: Oversized boxy crewneck sweatshirt
Brand: CMD&C (Command & Create)
Collection: Sovereign, Unbothered
Subject: Eartha Kitt
Colorway: Vintage Dune
Material: 460GSM organic cotton crewneck 
Construction: Oversized boxy cut
Origin: Portugal (WATC Studio blank)
Print method: Heat transfer
Edition: Limited — one production run, no restocks
Price:  $110 

She reclined like she owned the room. Because she did. The original Material Girl.

Eartha Kitt was born on a cotton plantation in South Carolina in 1927, the daughter of a sharecropper. She was abandoned at age eight. By her thirties she was performing at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, recording in seven languages, and being described by Orson Welles as the most exciting woman in the world.

In 1968, she was invited to a White House luncheon by Lady Bird Johnson. She spoke out against the Vietnam War and hosted a controversial tour in apartheid South Africa  The CIA opened a file on her. She was blacklisted from American entertainment for nearly a decade.

She kept working and cemented her legacy as one of the fiercest sex symbols in American History.

This pop art print catches her on the sofa — green fur, yellow-green polka dots, red wall, black heel — at absolute ease. 

Sovereign. Unbothered. 1970s.

— 460GSM organic cotton crewneck 
— Oversized boxy cut, true to CMD&C's silhouette
— Heat transfer print on Portuguese WATC Studio blank
— One production run. No restocks.

— This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.Attribution: Boris Carmi /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection