Possibly the meanest-looking shirt to be featured on this site, and definitely one of the coolest I've seen so far.Available from Shopecko.com, this Mark Ecko t-shirt takes the same picture of Napoleon Crossing The Alps by Jacques-Louis David as featured on the Threadless shirt "Napoleon's Ride", but runs with it in absolutely the opposite direction: here we see Napoleon clad in a gas mask, and brandishing a rescue flare. The Emperor as urban rioter.
With graffiti-style slogans adorning the front of the shirt, the back is empty apart from the phrase "Writing All Wrongs" in large red letters.
Designed predominantly from red, black and white, Napoleon Complex is only available on black t-shirts, and retails for $28 dollars.
On Shopecko.com it's described as follows: "Riding high. A Napoleon hat clad skeleton is robed and charging on a horse on this Ecko Unltd. screenprint tee with Ecko logos and designs. "Writing All Wrongs" and the iconic rhino weld logo in back. 100% cotton. Machine wash. Imported."
Now I don't see the skeleton myself, and think it's just the man himself wearing breathing apparatus, but I could be wrong. However, that's not my biggest gripe. On checking out Ecko's shipping policy, it turns out that delivery is only an option for US addresses (including Alaska and Hawaii) but nowhere else. This seems like a crazy decision, and I'm sure most international Bonaparte fans would be quite willing to pay a few dollars more to get their hands on one of these shirts.
In September 2007, designer Mark Ecko paid a hefty $752,467 to get his hands on the baseball Barry Bonds hit for his record-breaking 756th home run. After polling vistors to his website, Ecko branded the ball with an asterisk to denote the questions which hung over Bonds' achievement, and sent it to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Now for my money, if you can do that, you can stretch to international delivery for a humble t-shirt.
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