SANS ARMURE
COLLECTION 002
What we leave in color
THE ARCHIVE
proof you were here.
THE CENTRAL IDEA
We are not designing
17 shirts.
We are preserving
17 memories.
The shirt is simply the object the memory lives inside.
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RECALL
when the body remembers first.
We don’t always remember
when we first heard a song.
We remember where we were
when it became ours.
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The passenger seat.
The kitchen.
The first concert.
Someone’s bedroom.
The drive home.
The person who sent it to us.
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Years later,
the first note plays.
And before you can place
the year, the room,
or the person,
your body remembers.
WE CALL THAT RECALL.
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COLOR IS HOW WE SEE
THE MEMORY.
RECALL IS HOW THE BODY
REMEMBERS IT.
WHERE RECALL COMES FROM
Muscle memory
Some songs live differently inside us. The first note can return the body to a moment before the mind has time to understand why.
This involuntary relationship between music and memory is the idea behind Recall.
A concert.
A passenger seat.
A kitchen.
A bedroom.
A person.
A summer.
RECALL · WHEN THE BODY REMEMBERS FIRST.
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THE LANGUAGE OF THE ARCHIVE
01
Memory
what remains.
02
Hue
what the memory looked like.
03
Recall
the song that brings you back.
04
Place
where it lived.
05
Hour
when it happened.
06
Air
what the memory smelled and felt like.
07
State
the emotion left behind.
08
Relic
the object that survived it.
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HOUR · WHEN IT HAPPENED
Seventeen memories.
One day.
Every memory has an hour. Put them on one clock and the collection becomes a single day, from Daybreak at 6:02 in the morning to Ash at 3:03, when everyone else is asleep.
MORNING
AFTERNOON
EVENING
NIGHT
12 AM
6 AM
12 PM
6 PM
After Midnight
Sapphire Blues
Ash
Daybreak
Blanc Cassé
Moss
Meadow
Guava
Nectar
Verdigris
Grounded
Fathom
Céleste
Before Sunset
Rosewater
Iris
Sanguine
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MEMORY 01 / 17
Sanguine
HUE
Red
RECALL
Still Feel Me · Jadakiss
PLACE
Somewhere you shouldn’t have gone back to.
HOUR
11:47 PM
AIR
Rain / Cedar / Warm Paper
STATE
Unfinished
RELIC
An old photograph
“the things that still hurt
because they still matter.”
ENTER THE MEMORY →
MEMORY FILE · THE MASTER EXAMPLE
01
Sanguine
“I almost called.”
Still Feel Me · Jadakiss
02
Sapphire Blues
“You always took the passenger seat.”
What You Need · Tems
03
Fathom
“I held my breath longer than you did.”
Close Up · Olivia Dean
04
Céleste
“We got in with our clothes on.”
Miami · Odeal
05
Blanc Cassé
“Neither of us made the bed.”
Devotion · Justin Bieber
06
Verdigris
“The key still works.”
Balance · Brandon Banks ft. UMI
07
Rosewater
“You fixed my collar before I went in.”
Selfish · St. John
08
Ash
“I didn’t know that was the last time.”
My Mind · Ella Mai
09
Before Sunset
“We took the long way on purpose.”
Some Kind of Love · Loony
10
Iris
“You fell asleep mid-sentence.”
Loving You · Wlemz
11
Daybreak
“You let go and I didn’t notice.”
Memories · Ayra Starr
12
After Midnight
“I said it out loud to nobody.”
Calculate · Kidd Carder
13
Nectar
“We didn’t know it was the good part yet.”
Look At Me Momma · Rod Wave
14
Grounded
“The porch light was still on.”
Gone Till November · Rod Wave
15
Moss
“Nobody clapped. I kept going.”
Ceiling (Freestyle) · Jhené Aiko
16
Guava
“My mother always made too much food.”
All On You · Hurricane Wisdom
17
Meadow
“I ruined my white shoes that day.”
White Trainers (Demo) · Olivia Dean
SANS ARMURE RADIO · TRANSMISSION 001 · PHASE 1
Not simply a playlist.
Each Recall belongs to a Memory. A song becomes important not only because of how it sounds, but because of where it takes us.
A room. A person. A city. A first concert. A drive home. A summer. A goodbye.
Recall is the bridge between music and memory. A new transmission follows every Monday, on Spotify and Apple Music.
RECALL / 01
Still Feel Me
Jadakiss
selected for Sanguine
17 MEMORIES.
17 HUES.
17 RECALLS.
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THE DRAWING · HOW HERE TO STAY WAS MADE · PHASE 1
It started as a line.
Two flat drawings. Two placements. Then cut, dyed and washed into the garment.
→
→
01 · FRONT
The line
“I think the world of you …” in typewriter, at mid-torso.
02 · BACK
The picture
The boy and the girl with their balloons, centered.
03 · HERE TO STAY
The garment
The drawing, made real. Shown in Iris.
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THE OBJECT THE MEMORY LIVES INSIDE · SHOWN IN IRIS · PHASE 1
Here to Stay
GARMENT
Here to Stay long sleeve, one silhouette in two cuts — a crop for ladies and a unisex regular — across seventeen hues
FABRIC
100% organic cotton, 260–300 GSM
FINISH
Garment dyed and washed; no two memories fade the same
FRONT
“I think the world of you …” at mid-torso, “you were always here” below it, both in typewriter; BOS · SF · NY stamped front left
BACK
This one graphic only — the boy handing the girl a bunch of balloons
PRICE
$117
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THE MEMORY TAG · PHASE 1
A tag that carries
yours, too.
Part museum card, part diary entry, part record insert. The back holds the memory in our own language, then leaves two lines empty.
The owner writes their own memory there. The object begins carrying their story, too. The QR shown is a placeholder.
SANS ARMURE
MEMORY 01 / 17
SANGUINE
RED
the things that still hurt
because they still matter.
proof you were here.
RECALL
Still Feel Me
Jadakiss
PLACE
Somewhere you shouldn’t
have gone back to.
HOUR
11:47 PM
AIR
Rain / Cedar / Warm Paper
STATE
Unfinished
RELIC
An old photograph
SANS ARMURE RADIO
TRANSMISSION 001
ENTER THE MEMORY →
YOUR MEMORY:
FRONT · BACK
WHAT TRAVELS WITH THE GARMENT · PHASE 1
The tag comes off. The memory stays.
SANS ARMURE
HERE TO STAY
MEMORY 01 / 17
SANGUINE
GARMENT 043 / 117*
proof you were here.
The interior label
Sewn inside. The hangtag eventually comes off; this never does.
“I almost called.”
MEMORY 01 / 17
The Memory Envelope
Small, uncoated, intimate. The tag, a print, a scent card, and one short human sentence.
OPENING
rain on pavement
HEART
cedar
TRACE
warm paper
Air
Scent as one more trigger. On a card and in the room, never heavily on the garment.
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ENTER THE MEMORY · WHAT THE QR OPENS · PHASE 2
It develops like a photograph.
No store. No menu. A black screen, then the hue comes up slowly, the way an image appears in a darkroom tray. The garment is tenth, never first.
01
ENTER
02
HUE
03
MEMORY
04
RECALL
05
PLACE
06
HOUR
07
AIR
08
RELIC
09
FILM
10
GARMENT
11
YOUR
MEMORY
12
THE
ARCHIVE
13
EXIT
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ONE DESIGN SYSTEM · NO TWO BEHAVE ALIKE · PHASE 2
Each memory opens its own way.
Fathom
You scroll down and the page goes under. Light bends. Sound muffles.
After Midnight
Almost entirely black. Text arrives slowly. Silence matters.
Nectar
Quick fragments, summer photographs, sunlight. Nothing waits.
Ash
Things disappear as you go. The page ends emptier than it began.
Meadow
It moves sideways. Open space, wind, the sound of outside.
Sanguine
Red is not there at first. It comes up as you stay.
And some hide something: a private sentence, an alternate photograph, a founder note. No badges, no points. Found on purpose.
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OWNERSHIP · PHASE 2
A collection of memories,
not a purchase history.
YOUR ARCHIVE
SANGUINE
MEMORY
01 / 17
GARMENT
043 / 117*
ARCHIVED BY
[ name ]
DATE
[ date ]
THE OTHER HALF
1 garment reserved for community distribution.
Later, once it is done and verified:
THE OTHER HALF OF YOUR OFFERING HAS BEEN DELIVERED.
[ DATE ] · [ COMMUNITY PARTNER ]
For every shirt sold we intend to give one through local partners. Only confirmed deliveries are shown. Accountability, not spectacle.
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THE MOVING ARCHIVE · SEVENTEEN SHORT FILMS · 17–30 SECONDS EACH
Fragments of life, not advertisements.
Sanguine
handheld
wet glass
red night
nervous
Sapphire Blues
passenger POV
reflections
blue city
drifting
Fathom
submerged
water
fractured sun
weightless
Céleste
vacation film
humid air
dusk
playful
Blanc Cassé
mostly locked
linen
morning
almost still
Verdigris
slow push-in
oxidized copper
overcast window
unhurried
Rosewater
close, shallow focus
soft cotton
pink dusk
hesitant
Ash
static
smoke, paper
dim tungsten
almost none
Before Sunset
from a moving car
dusty windshield
low gold
gliding
Iris
one long take
lamp glow
violet
breathing
Daybreak
child’s-eye height
chalk, chrome
first blue
wobbling forward
After Midnight
wide and distant
wet streets
sodium light
deliberate
Nectar
disposable camera
sweat, sunlight
hard afternoon
chaotic, joyful
Grounded
documentary
soil, wood
late afternoon
patient
Moss
macro, very slow
bark, damp stone
green shade
barely moving
Guava
home video
steam, food, hands
kitchen warmth
crowded
Meadow
wide cinematic
grass, wind
midday
free
CAMERA
TEXTURE
LIGHT
MOVEMENT
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PHASE 2
THE CAMPAIGN FILM · 3–5 MINUTES · PHASE 2
WE DON’T REMEMBER DAYS.
WE REMEMBER COLORS.
Seventeen memories. At first you cannot tell if it is seventeen people, or one life across different years. It accelerates. Then silence.
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THE OPENING · A PHYSICAL JOURNEY · PHASE 2
One walk, from black to white.
Not a fashion show. Guests arrive in the dark with almost no explanation. The seventeen garments are not shown together until the sixth stop.
01
Arrival
BLACK
02
The Corridor
COLOR
03
The Archive
MEMORY
04
The Listening Room
RECALL
05
The Cinema
FILM
06
Here to Stay
OBJECT
07
The White Room
YOU
08
The Other Half
COMMUNITY
09
The Table
CONNECTION
10
Exit
PROOF
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THE WHITE ROOM · PHASE 2
What color is
your memory?
It begins nearly empty. No garments. No product. Guests answer on archival cards: a color, a sentence, a memory.
By the end of the night the room is full of other people’s memories.
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SANS ARMURE
The
Archive
COLLECTION 002
COPY 001
THE ARCHIVE BOOK · PHASE 2
Made after.
Not before.
FIRST HALF
The seventeen Sans Armure memories: photography, writing, film stills, hues, recalls, relics.
SECOND HALF
The Living Archive: memories the community gave us. Anonymous where it should be.
It documents what actually happened, not what we planned. No follower counts, no metrics. A small numbered edition, quantity to be confirmed. Copy 001 stays in the Sans Armure archive.
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THE ROLLOUT · PROPOSED DATES, TO CONFIRM
Four movements, with an ending.
01 · NOVEMBER 2026
Teasers
Black screens. One hue at a time. No product. People guess the memory before they see the shirt.
02 · DECEMBER 2026
Miami
The debut event — Art Basel Miami 2026. Day not yet fixed. A sun-dyed Céleste, numbered 1–117, debuts here and nowhere else.
03 · DECEMBER 2026
The full release
All seventeen memories release together, with their tags and digital memories. Transmission 001 goes live.
04 · AFTER THE CAMPAIGN
The close
The Archive Book, and one last image. Archive 002 closes on purpose.
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MIAMI EXCLUSIVE · ART BASEL MIAMI 2026
One hundred seventeen. Miami only.
A sun-dyed take on Céleste, found nowhere else in the collection — one night, one city, a run of exactly 117, unisex regular fit only. When they’re gone, they’re gone.
CÉLESTE, SUN-DYED · MEMORY FILE 04 · TIFFANY BLUE
NO.
MADE. NO MORE.
COLORWAY
Céleste — Tiffany blue, sun-dyed
FIT
Unisex regular only — no crop
VENUE
The debut show, Miami
DATE
December 2026, Art Basel Miami
AVAILABILITY
In person only, while they last
PRICE
$117 — the same number as the run
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STATUS · UPDATED FOR THIS REVIEW
What’s locked. What’s still draft.
One place to check all seventeen Memory Files at once. Nectar’s Recall is corrected here to Look At Me Momma, Rod Wave — this slide exists so a drift like that gets caught centrally next time.
#
MEMORY
HUE
SONG
SENTENCE
FILM
HOUR
01
Sanguine
Red
Still Feel Me · Jadakiss
LOCKED
LOCKED
LOCKED
02
Sapphire Blues
Cobalt
What You Need · Tems
LOCKED
LOCKED
DRAFT
03
Fathom
Sea blue
Close Up · Olivia Dean
DRAFT
LOCKED
DRAFT
04
Céleste
Tiffany blue
Miami · Odeal
DRAFT
LOCKED
DRAFT
05
Blanc Cassé
Warm linen
Devotion · Justin Bieber
LOCKED
LOCKED
DRAFT
06
Verdigris
Aged teal
Balance · Brandon Banks ft. UMI
DRAFT
DRAFT
DRAFT
07
Rosewater
Faded pink
Selfish · St. John
DRAFT
DRAFT
DRAFT
08
Ash
Charcoal
My Mind · Ella Mai
LOCKED
LOCKED
DRAFT
09
Before Sunset
Coral
Some Kind of Love · Loony
DRAFT
DRAFT
DRAFT
10
Iris
Violet
Loving You · Wlemz
DRAFT
DRAFT
DRAFT
11
Daybreak
Pale sky
Memories · Ayra Starr
DRAFT
DRAFT
DRAFT
12
After Midnight
Black
Calculate · Kidd Carder
DRAFT
DRAFT
DRAFT
13
Nectar
Golden yellow
Look At Me Momma · Rod Wave
LOCKED
LOCKED
DRAFT
14
Grounded
Earth brown
Gone Till November · Rod Wave
DRAFT
LOCKED
DRAFT
15
Moss
Olive
Ceiling (Freestyle) · Jhené Aiko
DRAFT
DRAFT
DRAFT
16
Guava
Salmon
All On You · Hurricane Wisdom
LOCKED
LOCKED
DRAFT
17
Meadow
Kelly green
White Trainers (Demo) · Olivia Dean
LOCKED
LOCKED
DRAFT
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PRODUCTION STANDARDS
What collaborators will build from.
Nothing here is approved yet. Each line is filled in as it is confirmed, and never before.
Memory Tag dimensions
TBD
Paper stock and GSM
TBD
Printing method
TBD
Deboss / letterpress
TBD
QR minimum size and safe area
TBD
Cord and metal fastening
TBD
Interior label dimensions
TBD
Garment GSM and dye method
TBD
Numbering method
SEE PG. 27
Packaging dimensions
TBD
Memory Envelope dimensions
TBD
Scent-card substrate
TBD
Film ratios and deliverables
TBD
Photography crop ratios
TBD
Garment size chart
SEE PG. 30
Website responsive behavior
TBD
Asset naming conventions
TBD
Radio artwork dimensions
TBD
Color values
TBD
Typographic hierarchy
TBD
Edition size, Archive Book
TBD
Garments per memory
TBD
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LONG SLEEVE TEE · SIZE CHART · ART BASEL MIAMI 2026
What it’s built to fit.
The first garment spec locked for Collection 002 — body measurements and construction, confirmed from the production reference sheet.
SIZE (INCHES)
BODY LENGTH (A)
CHEST WIDTH (B)
SLEEVE LENGTH (C)
X-Small
25.2
22
24.4
Small
26
22.8
24.8
Medium
26.8
23.6
25.2
Large
27.6
24.4
25.6
X-Large
28.4
25.2
26
2X-Large
29.1
26
26.4
Measurements may vary ¼″ to ½″ due to differences in measurement methods and locations.
CONFIRMED THIS PASS
COLLAR
Heavyweight ribbed collar.
FRONT · TYPEWRITER, LINE ONE
“I think the world of you …”
FRONT · TYPEWRITER, LINE TWO
“you were always here”
STAMP · FRONT LEFT
BOS. · SF. · NY.
“Proof you were here.”
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Everything leaves
something behind.
proof you were here.
ARCHIVE 002 · CLOSED.
SANS ARMURE · WHAT WE LEAVE IN COLOR