"Animal Signal" Tote

A protest, reframed as image.

“Don’t Kill the Animals” — once performed with theatrical urgency by two of the 80s’ most singular voices — returns here as a continuous field, printed edge to edge.

Carried, not worn.
Seen, not announced.

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The Reference

In the early 1980s, protest briefly looked like performance art.

Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich delivered “Don’t Kill the Animals” not as a slogan, but as spectacle — exaggerated, surreal, and impossible to ignore.

Part cabaret, part warning.

This piece pulls from that moment — not to recreate it, but to hold onto its tension.

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The Object

An all-over print tote, where the image doesn’t sit politely in the center — it surrounds.

The graphic repeats as a continuous surface: color against black, theatrical against minimal.

It reads differently depending on distance:
from across the room, a composition.
up close, a confrontation.

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It belongs equally in:
• a record store
• a gallery bookstore
• the backseat of a car at 2am

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Construction

• All-over printed exterior
• Black base with black straps
• Durable, structured fabric
• Clean interior
• Designed for daily use without looking like it

The print is saturated but controlled — color held tightly against black for maximum contrast without excess.

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Context

For those who recognize:
• post-punk theatricality
• early activist media as performance
• the intersection of fashion, image, and ideology

For everyone else, it remains what it is:
a striking object with a certain charge.