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Tee 01. Still becoming.

How Tee 01 started, in its first white version. The words, the cut and a hem cut by hand. The tee we are making is now green.

Tee 01, front: a white tee cut short with a raw hem, STILL BECOMING. in large black brush-style letters across the chest
Visualisation of the final design. Photos of the first sample come next.

Update, 26 October 2026: this entry shows the first, white version of Tee 01. It stayed a prototype. The tee we are actually making is green with a pale yellow print: Draft 03.

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.

Close-up of the front print, STILL BECOMING. with a drip of paint running off the full stop
The front: rough and quick, like a brush stroke left mid-motion.

The front carries the words. 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.

Close-up of the back collar, with Kousesh in script following the curve of the neckline and a small circled W
The back: Kousesh in our script, curved under the collar, with the small circled W for Warsaw.

Inside the neck there is no tag to scratch. The label is printed into the cotton: Kousesh, NOBODY IS ONE THING., the size, and a number we write by hand on every piece.

Inside the neckline, a label printed into the cotton reading Kousesh, NOBODY IS ONE THING., and a blank line for the hand-written number
The label inside, with a blank line for the number.

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.

Every decision so far, from the fabric to the length, is on the Draft 02 page.

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