Some people run from their messy chapter, Juliette Lewis prints hers on cotton and calls it fashion. Actress Juliette Lewis decided to slap hers on a T-shirt and sell it. Because why hide a mugshot when you can monetize it.
The Yellowjackets actor is teaming up with gender-neutral fashion brand Wildfang for a new clothing collection – and the star of the lineup is a real photo of Lewis as a teenager…handcuffed by cops. Not a photoshoot. Not a concept. It’s an actual mugshot. Honestly? If that’s not rockstar energy, what is!Why bury when you can rebrand?When asked by Drew Barrymore whether the mugshot was real, Juliette didn’t flinch: “Yes, because we all have a past.”
As a teenager, Lewis tried to enter a club that didn’t have its liquor licence in order. Police shut it down, assuring underage attendees would be let go – but that promise didn’t hold. “We didn’t get released. We were handcuffed and put in the backseat of a car,” she recalled. Living independently at the time – paying rent and taxes – Lewis couldn’t resist pushing back.
“I said, ‘I can pay taxes, but I can’t go dancing?’” she added, noting the officer’s eye-roll response.
Full circle but make it FashionApparently, her dad once blew up the mugshot into a giant photo (as parents do). Now decades later, Lewis is turning it into a merch, mostly to fund her rock-and-roll life. Besides acting, Lewis fronted the band Juliette and the Licks in the 2000s and has never really stopped being a music-first rebel at heart. From concept to final design – Wildfang’s team reveals that Lewis had deep involvement. The moment they mentioned brand values, she reportedly went: “Oh my God, we have to use my mugshot.
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