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This rare vintage NAF NAF shirt from their “À Travers l’univers” collection is a wearable work of art — inspired by the dawn of the printed word. Designed in the early 1990s and tagged as a “Special Print,” this piece blends Renaissance imagery and medieval aesthetics with a nod to early Venetian printing and illuminated manuscripts. The intricate print includes: Illuminated alphabet characters in red, gold, and black — mimicking the ornate initials found in 15th-century Venetian books Clusters of robed monks and scribes, evoking the monastic origins of literacy A commanding Greek or Renaissance figure in a red toga — possibly a philosopher, early printer, or humanist scholar Decorative floral and scrollwork motifs with cryptic pseudo-Latin clusters like “VRNA” and “LCTEHP” The result is a stylized tribute to the spread of knowledge, art, and culture across the world — from classical Greece to Renaissance Venice.