Power Dressing: How to Wear Your Heart — and Your Resistance — on Your Sleeve

Laura Ferrara, Sylvia Simon and Vanina Sorrenti

February 8, 2017

Suffragette City: On Pooja Mor (left): white cotton tank, $69, Rick Owens at Barneys New York; stonewash jacket, $795, Adam Selman, similar styles at OpeningCeremony.com; black leather shorts, $1,050, Carven at carven.fr. On Langley Fox (right): Sinead O’Connor T-shirt, $84, Assembly NY at Assembly New York and assemblynewyork.com; jeans by Re/Done at Warm, NYC; Love necklace, $480, Maya Brenner at mayabrenner.com.

Vanina Sorrenti

Wearing your heart on your sleeve takes on a new meaning with these T-shirts, which, like many of the tees in this story, broadcast messages of empowerment while benefitting organizations that are doing the real work.

Photography by Vanina Sorrenti and Sylvia Simon; Styling by Laura Ferrara for the Village Voice

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