Nirvana 33rd Anniversary 1987-1994 Signatures Thank You For The Memories Shirt

The woman who lives in Marilyn Monroe’s house in 2020 has perfectly coiffed platinum blonde hair, a penchant for red lipstick, and a wardrobe of exclusively 1950s dresses. But she’s not Marilyn Monroe; she’s Jasmine Chiswell, a content creator with 3.4 million followers on TikTok who tune into videos about fashion history and tales from the house (which she says is haunted by the presence of Monroe). It’s a ’50s aesthetic in a language that’s entirely 2020. Ever seen a Hitchcock blonde do a TikTok dance? Now you have. That dissonance makes her page dizzying to look at and hard to turn away from. The designer works with customers to find styles, colorways, or patchwork combinations that fit their personal style. “I’ve always loved patchwork,” she says of her signature fabrication. Since James uses scraps of old sportswear T-shirts, and mixes in textures from other vintage pieces she finds, the result is a one-of-one creation. James has built up relationships with wholesale suppliers, so that she can spend less time scouring for vintage pieces and more time on the design process. Wholesalers such as Wholesale Vintage Fashion will send her boxes of unsold sports merch before donating them to places such as Goodwill. Some of the pieces she uses are decades old. “Some of the tees are from the ‘90s or early 2000s,” she says. “I can tell from the Nirvana 33rd Anniversary 1987-1994 Signatures Thank You For The Memories Shirt.”