Vetements Zero Dollars
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| Collection | Redacted Remilio Babies |
| Category | Shirt |
| References | Vetements "It Costs $0.00 To Be A Nice Person" t-shirt (Demna Gvasalia) |
| Count | 140 |
| Rarity | 1.40% |
Vetements Zero Dollars is a shirt trait in the Redacted Remilio Babies NFT collection, depicting the Vetements "It Costs $0.00 To Be A Nice Person" t-shirt, a luxury streetwear piece by Demna Gvasalia's Vetements label.
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Background
The "It Costs $0.00 To Be A Nice Person" t-shirt is a Vetements product retailing at approximately $380–$435 — an oversized 100% cotton garment, produced in black and white colorways, with the phrase printed across the chest followed by the Vetements logo in gold lettering.[1] The shirt belongs to the same conceptual tradition as Vetements' DHL t-shirt and other pieces that apply luxury pricing and production to vernacular or found language — in this case, a wholesome internet platitude whose absurd juxtaposition with a $400 price tag generates the piece's meaning.
The slogan itself — a mild moral reminder that basic decency is free — circulated widely on social media and cheap print-on-demand merchandise throughout the 2010s as a form of casual progressive signaling. Vetements' adoption of the phrase recontextualizes it within luxury fashion, producing an object that is simultaneously earnest and ironic: a garment that costs several hundred dollars to assert that kindness costs nothing. The joke operates in multiple directions — at the cheap sentiment of the original, at the absurdity of luxury pricing, and at the wearer for paying either way. The piece fits within Demna's broader practice, described in relation to the DHL shirt, of taking objects from everyday mass culture and reframing them within a luxury context to expose how arbitrary value is constructed.
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References
- ↑ "Vetements It Costs $0.00 To Be A Nice Person Tee". StockX. Retrieved 2025-12-01.