Checkmate — Premium Edition Tee

A layered study of courtship, pattern, strategy, and the cost of realizing value too late.

“Checkmate” brings multiple ideas together using a check pigeon, bowing to its potential mate. The symbolism in their courtship, and the visual language of chess in a design built for discovery of profound truths.

At first glance, the piece suggests strategy and finality but other meanings arise in the bowing posture of courtship, the quiet tension between two birds, the black-and-white language of the chessboard. The weight of what cannot be lightly lost. Distinctive and deliberate, it holds contrast, beauty, pairing, value, and consequence in the same frame.

Tagline
Strategic forethought avoids consequential loss. 
Front/back note
Premium front-and-back symbolic narrative piece.

• 100% organic combed ring-spun cotton
• Fabric weight: 4.6 oz./yd.² (155 g/m²)
• Regular fit
• Set-in sleeves
• 1 × 1 rib at collar
• Double-needle topstitch on the sleeves and bottom hems
• Self-fabric neck tape on the inside of the back
• The fabric of this product holds certifications for its organic cotton content under GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) and OCS (Organic Content Standard)

The sizes correspond to a bigger size in the European market, customers from that region should order a size down.

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