FASHION

The T-Shirt Issue

The T-Shirt Issue is a collective formed by Berliner company Mashallah Design and Linda Kostowski, and creates little pieces of ready-to-wear art. More precisely, their T-shirts are geometrical architectures told as a poetry.

Indeed, one’s thought is usually that t-shirts are pretty basic and nowadays we just think we’ve seen basically every kind of twist; but this amazing collaboration sounds more like a complex couture design rather than another t-shirt design project.

The T-Shirt Issue ideates their jerseys by the scanning of human bodies, then using the data collected they create unique sewing patterns of 3D polygons. These 3D projections are then transformed into 2D files, which are ultimately used to laser cut fabric.

An inarguably amazing process that led to a second part of series inspired by the famous work of Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer of the mid 1800s - Muybridge Pt.2. These series are a digital methodology to moving classic dynamics onto standalone jersey apparels – an evolution of Muybridge’s first locomotion analysis.

For their second study on temporal change in 3D, the collaborators chose to examine a bird in full flight. Its movements were captured, fixed, animated and exported into T-shirts. The final results are three amazingly unique T-Shirts which represent three still frames from the animated flight and showing a different position of the bird's body in motion.

Geometrically sharp and beautiful as sculptures, to wear this project mean revisiting our view on T-shirts and bring us to consider and experiment new dimensions, in aesthetics and beyond.