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English fashion designer

Katharine Eleanor Hamnett (née Appleton; born 16 August 1947) is an English fashion designer best known for her political T shirts.

Hamnett was born on 16 August 1947 in Gravesend, Kent, the daughter of James Appleton, a group captain. She attended Cheltenham Ladies’ College.

Hamnett graduated from Saint Martin's School of Art. She set up Tuttabankem with Anne Buck in 1969. From 1975, she was a freelance fashion designer in London, Paris, Milan, New York and Hong Kong until she founded the Katharine E. Hamnett clothes label in 1979. The official FGTH designs were particularly successful, and spawned many imitations of their own. Models such as Naomi Campbell have appeared in Hamnett shirts bearing the slogans "USE A CONDOM" and "PEACE". Hamnett viewed her T shirts as a way of getting her message across: "If you want to get the message out there, you should print it in giant letters on a t shirt." Her first shirt featured the "CHOOSE LIFE" slogan. Inspired by a Buddhist exhibit, it was a comment against war, death and destruction. Hamnett has spoken out several times against the slogan's use by anti abortion activists in the U. S. She wrote on her website, "It's not about the anti abortion lobby. The US anti abortion lobby attempted to appropriate CHOOSE LIFE. We are taking it back and promoting its real meaning. Ours is authentic and I believe in a woman's right to choose." (which is now known as Choose Love). Outside her own label, in 1984 Hamnett was involved in the founding of Tanya Sarne's Ghost label.

In June 2014, Hamnett joined Nimrod Kamer to perform a stunt outside Hackney Town Hall, aiming to make Hackney Mayor Jules Pipe ban the weedkiller Monsanto Roundup being used in the borough.

Hamnett has been married twice, to Richard Hamnett, a graphic designer, and to Jeffrey Pine, a painter. She has two sons.

Hamnett won the first ever British Fashion Awards, and in 1996, was voted Britain's favourite designer by readers of Cosmopolitan. Hamnett was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours, for services to the fashion industry. She renounced the honour in February 2024 in response to her perceived lack of action by the British Government in the war in Gaza.