helenaoftroy / a.k.a Elena Gallen

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T-Shirts designed by young female artist Elena Gallén quickly garnered a cult among the fashion elite. Everyone from fashion designer Giles Deacon to rock star Wendy James (Transvision Vamp) or korean celebrity Tae Yang (Big Bang) have been spotted in one of her pop-culture amalgam designs.

Versatile and self-taught, Gallen, has been acused of “transvesting” reality. Her provocative wit has awakened the curiosity of scene-kids, outsiders, fashionistas, bloggers and I-celebrities. Combining the naïf, the odd and the minimalistic and inspired by trash culture, postmodernism, consumerism, independent movies and an unusual taste for monsters, ufos, blush, red lipstick, ligers, galaxies, horror films, transgression, mannequins, teenagers and nature, the character embodied by the artist has become outstanding beyond her creations.