Muijs + Jones: when fashion meets art

Fashion designer Sherie Muijs knows shirts. Her tailoring is impeccable, her natural material choices are forever spot on. And artist Ryder Jones knows art. A visual arts graduate, he generally works in the realm of sculpture and furniture with a highly instinct-driven style.

Put these two creatives in the same room and they work in beautiful unison. Their ‘Painted Shirt’ series, a collection of mid-weight, cotton men’s shirts are employed as a canvas for Jones’ artworks. Colours loosely flow and evoke a sense of playful freedom, the paint strokes interrupt the perceived austerity of a shirt.

“The shirts challenge adult assumptions of competence and organisation. Plainness and conformity. Instead opting for something akin to the failure and of a broken list, forever growing incomplete and undone.” 

Made in New Zealand, the shirts feature a front-inset pocket with bar-tack ends, two-piece sleeves with pearl buttons, closers at the cuff and centre-front placket. A back yoke, hanger loop and a curved hem. Tight double-stitch details ensure the highest quality with all enclosed French and flat-felled seams. Perfection.

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