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BRITNEY OG There's a tension in early pop culture that I really love. The imagery can look innocent on the surface while existing inside this enormous machine of celebrity, image, fashion, marketing, desire, performance, and spectacle. That's part of what makes the era so visually interesting to me now. The Y2K aesthetic (OR OUR VERY OWN Y3K) wasn't just chrome and futuristic graphics. It was a whole cultural moment. Music videos. School hallways. CDs. MTV. Flash photography. Low-rise...

SMILEY CRUSHER TEE The Smiley Crusher Tee lives somewhere between signal and static. It came out of a collision of distorted graphics, fractured systems, strange symbols, and the feeling of trying to remain yourself while everything around you is telling you what you’re supposed to be. The visual world pulls from a lot of places I naturally gravitate toward: dystopian cyberpunk, city lights, hardcore shows, Y2K internet culture, digital noise, and the weird beauty of things that look slightly...

Eventually, the idea behind the shirt became CSI: Create → Smile → Inspire. You make something from nothing. You see it become real, and it makes you smile. That feeling gives you a reason to create again — or maybe it inspires someone else to do the same. Looking back, I like that this was the first shirt. It came from a connection that started with music in Chile, continued through friendship and design, and eventually became part of the clothing project I was building in the United States.