‘A Fashion That Does Not’ — Coco Chanel Quote Tee | RQuéV Black-on-White Statement Shirt — Oversized Tee

“A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.” Coco Chanel located the test of a garment on the pavement rather than the pedestal: fashion, she said, lives “in the sky, in the street” (recorded in Axel Madsen’s 1991 biography). The street is where clothes meet weather, motion, and hustle, the crowd and the night and the churn of possibility and danger, and only what survives all that earns the name. From a woman draped in pearls and tweed, it is a wager that real elegance is proven out in the open, where life runs hardest and anything can happen.

**AS Colour 5082 “Faded Bone” — Oversized Tee (Cream finish).** 100% carded cotton, heavyweight 240 gsm, garment-dyed — each tee fades a little differently, so no two are identical. Oversized, boxy relaxed fit, dropped shoulders, wide twin-stitched ribbed neck, side-seamed, pre-shrunk (size down for a less roomy look). Care: machine wash cold inside-out with like colors, do NOT bleach, do NOT tumble dry (line dry in the shade to protect the garment dye), cool iron inside-out (never iron the print).