$85 for a coffee-stained T-shirt? Starbucks collaboration with top fashion designers has some odd results

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There's nothing new about a designer rip in a pair of jeans, or a 'distressed' shirt complete with dubiously decorative bleach drips.

But would you fork out $85 for a T-shirt that has a coffee stains down its front?

Top New York Fashion Week designer, Alexander Wang, has designed a special tee for Starbucks that elevates hapless morning accident to an art-form.

Dirty art: Top New York designer Alexander Wang's spilt coffee T-shirt, created for coffee chain Starbucks, costs $85

Featuring none other than the image of spilt black coffee, the white T-shirt is splattered with coffee brown, the chain's logo faintly discernible among the stain's splashes.

The designer spill is part of a collaboration between the Council of Fashion Designers America and the global caf megalith to help celebrate '40 years of coffee, culture and the continued evolution' by the Seattle-based brand.

Billy Reid and Sophie Theallet have also joined forces with Starbucks for the collaboration - their tees rather more clean-looking, if not so eccentric.

T! aking in spiration from the coffee houses, the designers were asked to make their own interpretations of the brand and translate them into clothing designs.

Cup o' Joe: The Starbucks collaboration sees top designers' creations on sale to celebrate the Seattle-based coffee chain's 40th birthday

Theallet channels the company's proudly global vision - and far-reaching business ventures - by featuring a jigsaw-like map of the world on her T-shirt, while Reid takes the Starbucks logo and spatters it, paint gun and stencil-like, onto the shoulder of a brown shirt.

Alexander Wang is more widely known for his highly covetable line of metal-detailed handbags and purses. His recent spring/summer 2012 show at New York Fashion Week saw a stunning collection including bright geometric patterns and transparent materials.

The special tees, part of the chain's support for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, are available to pre-order at department store Nordstrom.com and are on sale at Starbucks.com.

Next time you spill coffee down a shirt on your way to work, fear not: If it's good enough for fashion A-listers, it's good enough for that board meeting.


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