The garment opens with bureaucratic neutrality.
A crew-neck cotton T-shirt marked “ANTIOFF Office Supplies”the language of inventory, administration, logistics.
Turn the garment and the surface shifts register. Marine shells, fungal forms, calcified fragments and unidentified organic relics. Arranged almost like plates from a natural history archive.
In early scientific collections, the European cabinets of curiosity of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — shells, fungi and mineral fragments were catalogued side by side. Specimens were gathered not only for science, but for wonder, fragments of unfamiliar worlds assembled into private systems of knowledge.
For centuries, shells circulated through global trade long before modern currency. Cowrie shells moved across the Indian Ocean and Silk Road networks as units of exchange. In classical mythology, shells also carried another meaning: vessels of the sea, associated with sirens, nymphs and maritime divination.
Placed against the language of office inventory, the juxtaposition becomes deliberate:
bureaucracy meeting archaeology, administration meeting myth.
The garment reads almost like a specimen sheet, fragments catalogued the way objects might appear in a natural history archive.
Not a graphic tee as statement, but an inventory of objects that once carried value, ritual and legend.
Part currency, part relic, part myth.
| Size |
Length (cm) |
Shoulder (cm) |
Chest (cm) |
Sleeve (cm) |
| S |
71 |
49.6 |
111 |
22.6 |
| M |
73 |
50.8 |
115 |
23.2 |
| L |
75 |
52 |
119 |
23.8 |
贤权 (Xián Quán) is 186cm tall and wears a Size L in a fitted look.
Composition
100% Cotton.
Double-yarn construction. At 275gsm, it sits in a heavier register of cotton — structured enough to hold form, yet softened through its dual-yarn build.
Care
Wash at or below 30°C
Wash inside out to preserve print integrity
Do not soak for extended periods
Hang dry in a cool, shaded environment
Do not iron directly on printed areas
Do not bleach
