Broken Press Crewneck

The Broken Press Shirt draws from the moment a print machine fails mid-run—gears jammed, ink bleeding, headlines unfinished. Bleach treatments eat into the fabric like chemical burns, while metal grommets mark industrial repair points and stress fractures in old machinery. Screen-printed elements feel slightly misaligned and imperfect, echoing the chaos of a press pushed past its limits.

The black and white variants represent opposing outcomes of that failure: black for oversaturation and buried stories, white for erasure and redaction. Together, they frame collapse as resistance—the choice to stop producing on someone else’s terms.

This piece represents collapse as resistance: the refusal to keep producing on someone else’s terms.