Artist, collector and founder of Cultural Traffic, Toby Mott is something of an art world maverick. Kicked out of various schools for persistent misdemeanours he had to settle at Pimlico Comprehensive, a school that he would later describe as being the making of him. With a disinclination for conventional work he found himself living in a squat with a Dickensian like crowd of punks, drag queens, drug addicts and petty criminals, amongst whom he found friendship with Marilyn, Princess Julia and Boy George.

Immersed in creative chaos, this rebel with a cause was the chief instigator of the fondly remembered Grey Organisation who infamously carried out the grey paint attack on the windows of targeted art dealers on Cork Street. He was arrested for his trouble. Then, having fought the law and won, the young Mott embraced Thatcherism and the Malcolm Mclaren dictum of turning chaos into cash. He created the Del La Soul Album cover for ‘3 feet high and rising’ licensed designs to Swatch Watch and found himself represented as an artist by hard core contemporary art dealer Maureen Paley.

With a Warholian disregard for the divisive categorisation that separates high and low art, Mott created 'Toby Pimlico' and set about ruffling the feathers of the fashion crowd. His fashion brand celebrated with some irony, 'Lines'; the preferred punishment meted out by strict authoritarian teachers at schools up and down the country. Mott’s cheeky, Pop meets Punk, deadpan designs appeared on coffee cups, greeting cards and T-shirts and found a following amongst a class of international celebrities.

Fast-forward and Toby Shop is delighted to present the latest manifestation of Mott’s, ‘School Detention Lines’. Straight from the artist’s Belgravia apartment and available here are works ready to ship to collectors and fashionistas worldwide.

Toby Mott is the leading name in unique T shirt statements. Toby Shop's ironic, cheeky, deadpan designs printed in our signature 'School Detention Lines' branding have a global edge influenced by the Punk era. Founded back in the late 90's as Toby Pimlico, these distinctive slogans gained Toby Mott exclusive appeal, as well as an international celebrity following including Kate Moss and Sarah Jessica Parker.

Toby Mott's creative flair for colour and design can be seen across Toby Shop's fashion range of baseball tops, t-shirts, cropped tees and sweatshirts, with unique prints in distressed metallic foils.

More recently, we have introduced the use of salvage cotton sweatshirts and new organic plant based fashion fabrics, along with the debut of punk flag designs and 'essay' prints.

"As one of the first adopters of the much-copied style in the early Noughties, Mott styles were an instant hit with the style set and remain so."
-Vogue

You can see Toby Mott's publications here