Frank Gehry Tells Himself To Go F&%k Himself

Admit it. Every once in a while, when you're bombarded with Frank Gehry news (Dubai, Brooklyn, Brad Pitt!) you just think, "Fuck Frank Gehry." Well now you don't need to think it. You can just wear the t-shirt. In this week's New Yorker "Talk of the Town", Lauren Collins writes about t-shirt entrepreneur Barnaby Harris and his "Fuck Frank Gehry" Ts. Turns out the man himself has become obsessed with the fashion statement, buying them for friends and clients.

“Somebody sent it to me,” Gehry said the other day, over the telephone, “and I thought it must have been the people in Brooklyn who are sort of angry. But then I thought, well, it must be loving, too. So I decided it was funny, and I put it on. And I wore it to the office, and everybody got a kick out of that, and then I wore it to the gym”—Gehry lifts weights at a Gold’s in Venice Beach—“and everybody got a kick out of that. The tough gals at the gym said, ‘If it’s an offer, you better be able to deliver, Mr. Gehry.’ ” Gehry’s wife, Berta, found this all funny. (“She’s Panamanian, so she doesn’t get rattled by much,” Gehry said.) In a Queer Nationesque move of appropriation, Gehry decided to begin sending the shirts out as gifts.

“First, someone from his office called and wanted me to deliver one to a friend of Frank’s who was giving a lecture at Baruch College called ‘Starchitecture,’ ” Harris recalled. “A week later, he called again: ‘Would you please send some shirts to Bruce Ratner?’ A couple of weeks ago, I got a third call: ‘Frank needs two in every color and every size.’ ”

The article is hilarious (fave quote: "Inspiration for the second saying struck several years ago, Harris said, 'when, with all the press for Bilbao, the Disney Concert Hall, a tolerance center in Jerusalem, it was like Frank had just put his foot down on top of us and crushed us. He had Brad Pitt making his coffee. You win, Frank.'").

And if you're like me and actually exclaim the T-Shirt's slogan on a daily basis, you may find a soft spot for the one trick poney architect.