Mooning Sailor Socks

With few copyright protections, Tom of Finland’s images were frequently pirated. In response, the artist established the Tom of Finland Company with Durk Dehner in 1979 to protect his rights and publish his work, producing a wide range of associated merchandise, including t-shirts, rubber stamps, and even sex toys. These cotton sports crew socks, featuring a Sailor Moon design from a magazine advert for mail-order rubber stamps by Tom of Finland, have been made exclusively for House of Voltaire. This coincides with Studio Voltaire’s major exhibition ‘Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland’, bringing together the work of these two cultural icons for the very first time.