Letting go of my personal archive and about T-Shirt quality.

It’s been a year since my breast cancer diagnosis. My focus has become my archive collection, since the closure of my boutique and the ceasing of making clothing (at least for the moment). A while before my diagnosis, the director of the Landesmuseum in Zurich contacted me about the 2025 exhibition “teCHno” about the history of Swiss Techno. Of course having been active in Switzerland in 1994, the year of the first Street Parade, I have a just few select outfits saved from that time. But now they will be forever remembered, as they are becoming the property of the museum after they are presented in the upcoming show. This and just the changed focus I now have in my life made me realize that it is time to catalog and with that I am finally letting go of my huge T-Shirt archive, carefully stored for future use in Idil Vice clothing. Many of which have received collector status in the meantime about 20-30 years ago… These T-Shirts and other incredible memorabilia collected from the 1990’s and the early 2000’s are in top shape, new, and are now available on eBay. All the proceeds from the auctions will benefit my own future life as a breast cancer survivor. Of course I never thought I would sell them, but now they serve a purpose greater than planned!

P.S. the quality of the tshirts swamping the market nowadays, just cannot be compared to T-Shirt brands from the Nineties and the early 2000’s before cheap digital printing became a thing and the quality of the t-shirts became questionable. Today, you will most likely not be amazed with the t-shirt quality if you order a digitally printed t-shirt online. These printing technics look best on Polyester or Cotton blend shirts, which in turn have bad quality, made in China, not South America or the U.S.A.

This is one of the reasons that my t-shirt archive has such a high value. The T-Shirts are of impeccable quality, in addition to original silk screen printing.