CCTV fire gets its own commemorative t-shirt
By Kate Ray
The raging fire at the CCTV complex in Beijing earlier this month is all the, uh, rage among the fashionable kids today. The day after the fire, a t-shirt dealer came up with new designs based on the incident and is selling them on the Ray.Wow.
The t-shirts rather morbidly - yet artistically - display a sketched black tower with a cloud of gray smoke and shooting red flames, along with the date of the fire. Another shirt bears the well-meant Chinglish message: "Family Life LOVE: Braveman China FIREFIGHTER."
The corporatization of the disaster has apparently been well-received by web readers and buyers, despite a small amount of criticism raised by some readers of Beijing Youth Daily.
At this pace, it looks like China is well on its way to building an American-grade industry out of national disasters.
Source: Danwei
