Patty Schemel auctions off famous Kurt Cobain t-shirt

A signature ad appeared Patty Schemelformer drummer of Holeon the sale of a t-shirt that belonged to the frontman of Nirvana Kurt Cobain. The auction house Julien’s has put it up for auction a t-shirt with the writing “Foxes”. The asking price is currently $8,000 which has exceeded the initial sales estimate of $4,000-6,000.

According to what is reported in the announcement, Cobain wore that shirt, reminiscent of the 1980 film “Foxes”for a photo shoot from the early nineties. Kurt Cobain he chose the t-shirt from a designer because he liked the film, in which a young girl played Jodie Fosterand had seen him with Schemel.

The photographer Anton Corbijn immortalized the band on July 16, 1993 with Cobain wearing that shirt. The photograph is one of the group’s most famous promotional images and is used as a banner on their Spotify page. In that image, Cobain also wears a pair of sunglasses that made him famous.

According to what is reported in the auction announcement, Kurt Cobain she kept the t-shirt and, shortly after the photo shoot, gave it to her friend Patty Schemel. In a letter attached to the auction announcement, Schemel wrote that in the summer of 1993 she went to Cobain’s house and Courtney Love to accompany her to Hole rehearsals, and while she waited, Kurt grabbed her shirt from a pile of clothes.

“He said, ‘You should have it,’” she recalled. It was the blue t-shirt of ‘Foxes’. “We shared a love of cult teen movies from the ’70s and ’80s. Kurt had the soundtrack. I loved Jodie Foster, who was the star. I’ve kept the shirt over the years. It’s a really special piece.”

Patty, who was the drummer for Hole from 1992 to 1998, he spoke of his great friendship with Kurt Cobain in his 2017 autobiography, “Hit So Hard”.