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Mary McCartney/MPL CommunicationsPaul McCartney has teamed up with New York City-based apparel label Lingua Franca to design a pair of limited-edition cashmere sweaters that feature embroidered titles of two songs from his chart-topping 2018 album, Egypt Station — “People Want Peace” and “Do It Now.”

The sweaters, which were hand-embroidered by female artisans in New York, are available for $400 at McCartney’s online merch store.

A statement promoting the sweaters notes, “Much like McCartney’s songs, Lingua Franca’s embroidered garments are meant to inspire meaningful conversations around issues of cultural and social relevance. Our ‘do it now’ and ‘people want peace’ sweaters, which make up this special capsule, are no exception.”

Lingua Franca founder Rachelle Hruska MacPherson, who’s a longtime Beatles fan, tells Billboard that McCartney’s team reached out to her company about collaborating, and that Macca “was really involved in the process” of designing the sweaters.

“Paul’s team asked if it would be possible to get a selection of designs mocked up. They had some potential slogans from Paul’s recent album,” MacPherson explains. “We showed them fifteen mockups, and Paul picked six. We really trusted Paul’s judgment on color combinations. The fact that Paul was picking all the colors was exciting.”

At McCartney’s merch site, each sweater is accompanied by a quote from Paul discussing the song title featured on the garment.

For “People Want Peace,” McCartney explains that the phrase came from a conversation he had with his father about whether people were warlike in nature.

As Paul recalls, “[H]e said to me very quietly: ‘No, no, son. People want peace. It’s the politicians and the leaders who get into wars. It’s not the people.'”

Regarding “Do It Now,” McCartney says it came from a catchphrase his dad would say about not procrastinating.

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