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• THE MATRIX DRESS

Built from many, worn as one.

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Each dress is hand-built from several deconstructed shirts, their collars, cuffs, and panels pieced into a single, original silhouette. No process is repeated twice.

Gingham & Stripe
MATRIX DRESS — NO. 01
Gingham & Stripe
Blue pinstripe bodice, burgundy stripe side panels, blue gingham skirt.
Gingham & Green Stripe
MATRIX DRESS — NO. 02
Gingham & Green Stripe
Blue pinstripe bodice, green stripe side panels, navy gingham skirt.
Plaid & Stripe
MATRIX DRESS — NO. 03
Plaid & Stripe
Blue plaid bodice, multicolor stripe side panels, brown stripe skirt panel.
Gingham & Plaid
MATRIX DRESS — NO. 04
Gingham & Plaid
Burgundy gingham bodice, red pinstripe waist panel, navy plaid skirt.
• THE SHORTEE

Cut by hand, never a pattern run.

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Shortee shirts, product shot
THE SHIRT
Shortee worn on a live model
WORN OUT, ON THE MOVE

The Shortees started at a cutting table, not a spreadsheet. Every shirt gets its own mix of plaid, stripe, and print — pieced pocket by pocket — so the piece you get is the only one of its kind. We don't restock a size. We cut another one.

No factories, no duplicates, no two collars from the same bolt. If you're wearing something from The Shortees, you're wearing the only version of it that exists.

1 OF 1 PER GARMENT HAND-PIECED POCKETS HAND-INLAID DENIM MADE TO ORDER
• THE IDEA

Deconstruction & Assemblage

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Every garment we build begins with a history. Instead of working from raw bolts of factory textiles, we treat existing materials — rare deadstock menswear wovens and vintage denim — as a blank canvas for structural transformation. We strip salvaged garments down to their raw panels, mapping out entirely new patterns that follow the original textile's wear, grain, and fade.

The current run, on the rack
THE CURRENT RUN, ON THE RACK

The Shirting

We re-engineer classic pinstripes and plaids into boxy, relaxed silhouettes. The rigid geometry of traditional menswear tailoring is deliberately offset by hand-selected, vibrant pocket accents that break up the background pattern.

Detail, hand-set inlay panels
DETAIL — HAND-SET INLAY PANELS

The Denim

Our reconstructed jeans focus heavily on weight and texture. We manually inset structural panels of patterned textiles along the outseams to alter the original drape, finishing each piece with intricate patchwork, raw frayed edging, and heavy structural reinforcement.

The result is a cohesive collection of functional, wearable art. Every piece is cut, matched, and tailored individually in our studio — making it entirely unique and impossible to duplicate.

• THE CURRENT RUN

Four lines. All one of a kind.

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Shortees
RECONSTRUCTED MENSWEAR — NO. 01

Shortees

The house shirt — striped and plaid cotton bodies finished with mismatched patch pockets, each hand-pieced from a different cloth. Worn loose by design, styled with a hand-tied scarf at the collar.

FABRICCotton stripe / plaid
FITUnisex, boxy
RUN1 of 1
NEW
Backless Shortee
RECONSTRUCTED MENSWEAR — NO. 02

Backless Shortee

The open-back Shortee — same boxy body, cut away at the back and closed with mismatched fabric tabs. Two striped colorways, each tab pieced from its own cloth.

FABRICCotton stripe
FITUnisex, open back
RUN1 of 1
Leather Bolo
RECONSTRUCTED MENSWEAR — NO. 03

Leather Bolo

Hand-painted leather cuffs and bolo ties, each finished with a cast brass charm — armadillo, butterfly, crown, bee — set by hand into its own hand-brushed color wash.

MATERIALLeather + brass charm
FITUnisex, adjustable
RUN1 of 1
Matrix Dress
RECONSTRUCTED MENSWEAR — NO. 04

Matrix Dress

Hand-built from several deconstructed men's shirts — collars, cuffs, and panels pieced into a single, original silhouette. No process is repeated twice.

FABRICMixed shirting
FITUnisex, reworked
RUN1 of 1

Made one
at a time.
Get first
look.

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We drop new pieces in small, unannounced runs. Join the list to hear when a new run is cut.

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