This was the first version of Tee 01. It stayed a prototype and was never made. The tee we are actually making is Draft 03: green, with a pale yellow print.
The idea
Still becoming. Nobody is finished, and nobody is one thing. The words do not say who you are. They say you are on your way, and the full stop says it calmly, as a fact rather than an excuse. A drip of paint runs off it, because something that has not dried yet is still happening.
The front carries the words, rough and quick, like a brush stroke left mid-motion. The back carries only our name, small, under the collar, like a signature on something you made. Rough on one side, calm on the other: two sides of the same person.
White and black, a heavy cotton you can train in and live in, and a hem cut by hand and left unfinished on purpose. Like the person wearing it.
Where it fits
Draft 01 is a set that needs heavy fabric and a long road. The first thing you will be able to wear is simpler: a white tee. It is being made in the open, like everything else here.
Decisions so far
White and black, nothing else. A white tee and a black print. It is the simplest pairing there is, and the one that lasts best in the wash.
Cut by hand. Most heavy tees come long. We liked the body of this one but not the length, so we take it shorter ourselves, to about 69 cm in size M, a little past the front pockets of your trousers. The edge stays raw. It rolls slightly as it is washed, and that is the idea.
Words on the front, the name on the back. STILL BECOMING. says what Kousesh is about: nobody is finished, and nobody is one thing. On the back there is only the name, small, just under the collar, the way you would sign something.
Big on the front. We first drew the words 26 cm wide. Next to a larger version they looked shy, so the print is now 35 cm across the chest, about as wide as a standard print table allows.
Two kinds of lettering, on purpose. Rough brush strokes on the front, a clean script on the back. Two sides of the same person.
Organic cotton, 240 g/m². Heavy enough to hold its shape, light enough to wear every day.
Still open
Whether the print survives our wash test: five washes, one of them in a dryer. If it does not, we change the method before anything is sold. After that, the exact height of the front print, the sizes, and how many we make first.