POISON IVY T-SHIRT

A cult rock star t-shirt available in black or white cotton.

Sin, style, and six-string sorcery — the Poison Ivy T-Shirt celebrates the red-haired high priestess of rock ’n’ roll voodoo herself. Guitarist, songwriter, and co-founder of The Cramps, Poison Ivy Rorschach didn’t just play music — she conjured it. Equal parts femme fatale and feral showgirl, Ivy turned distortion into dark desire and surf riffs into ritual.

Emerging from the smouldering heart of New York’s late-’70s punk underground, The Cramps fused rockabilly sleaze with horror-movie hysteria to birth psychobilly — a genre, a mood, and a movement. And at the centre of it all stood Poison Ivy: leather-clad, leopard-print, and laced with danger. Her Gretsch guitar screamed through the fuzz like a sermon from a pulp apocalypse, drenched in reverb and attitude.

“Poison Ivy is the heart and soul of The Cramps.” - Lux Interior

But Ivy was more than a musician. She was an architect of aesthetic — the living embodiment of Hellwood’s holy trinity: sound, sin, and cinema. A scholar of obscure vinyl and vintage vice, she and Lux Interior created a world where bad taste was gospel and every riff was a resurrection. Behind the red hair and bullet-bra bravado was a fiercely intelligent woman curating an entire cultural rebellion, one tremolo twang at a time.

From the backroom clubs of CBGB to the stages of the world, Ivy turned grit into glamour and filth into art. She was the heart that kept The Cramps beating long after the grave had called their name. Wearing this t-shirt isn’t just a fashion choice — it’s a declaration of devotion to the dangerous, the divine, and the devilishly stylish.

For the true believers in the Church of the Cramps: Poison Ivy forever.

💬 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs)

Q1: Who was Poison Ivy Rorschach?
A1: Poison Ivy, born Kristy Marlana Wallace, was the guitarist, songwriter, and co-founder of The Cramps. She shaped the sound and style of psychobilly — fusing rockabilly, garage rock, and horror aesthetics into something entirely her own.

Q2: What made Poison Ivy’s guitar style so iconic?
A2: Her sound combined vintage gear, heavy tremolo, and reverb-drenched minimalism to create something both raw and hypnotic. She played like a cross between Link Wray and a ghost from the Sunset Strip — gritty, sensual, and unmistakably her own.

Q3: Why is she considered such an influential figure?
A3: Beyond her music, Poison Ivy’s fashion, stage presence, and DIY ethos inspired generations of musicians, artists, and outsiders. She proved that rebellion could be both cerebral and seductive — and that rock ’n’ roll was never just for the boys.