Leather Man Clone Diagonal Bandana — Art by Dom “Etienne” Orejudos
The story
An exercise in repetition, power, and visual code, this bandana transforms a single leather icon into a rhythmic field of bodies — a pattern that reads equally as ornament and declaration.
Featuring imagery from the Dom ‘Etienne’ Orejudos Collection, Leather Archives & Museum, Chicago.
Hand silk-screened on cotton, the design reinterprets the classic bandana — an integral object in queer flagging culture — through the visual logic of the “clone,” the hyper-masculine archetype that emerged in the late 1970s as both identity and aesthetic code. By repeating Dom “Etienne” Orejudos’s iconic leather figure across the field, The Haunted Disco merges three visual languages into one: the bandana as signaling device, the clone as cultural symbol, and Etienne’s illustration as archival touchstone. The result is a pattern that transforms a single image into a system of recognition, desire, and history.
Printed in small batches in New York City, each bandana preserves the bold linework and tonal restraint characteristic of archival erotic illustration. The cloned arrangement amplifies the authority of the original figure, turning one portrait into a full visual grammar — a study in masculinity, uniform, and coded display that once circulated through bars, zines, and underground culture.
Available in multiple colorways, each variation quietly echoes the traditions of flagging culture, where repetition, placement, and hue carried layered meaning beyond decoration.
- Hand silk-screened on 100% cotton
- Printed in NYC in small batches
- Black permanent acrylic ink on colored bandanas
- Image area: 17" × 17"
- Full bandana size: approximately 21" × 21"
- Slight variations in ink density and fabric size are inherent to hand printing and indicate authentic, human-pulled production
- Ultralight cotton weave that softens noticeably after the first wash
